Posted on 06/29/2014 5:58:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A WOMAN has been arrested after burning down part of her home in an attempt to kill a spider, police say.
Ginny Griffith, 34, used a cigarette lighter to set fire to some towels after seeing the arachnid in her bathroom.
But as the blaze spread, five fire trucks were called to her apartment in Hutchinson, Kansas, US at around 1.36am (local time) on Friday morning to put out the inferno.
Firefighters were able to bring the fire under control within a matter of minutes.
Deputy Fire Chief Doug Hanen said in a statement that firefighters had found smoke coming from smouldering clothes just inside the doorway as they entered.
He confirmed the team had also found multiple other points where the fire may have been started.
Police said the woman confessed to lighting the towels with her cigarette lighter.
As a result of the fire, Griffith was arrested and charged with aggravated arson because she owns a shared home.
It is not know what happened to the spider.
I like it when bad things happen to bad people.
That’s what they told me when I failed spy class 102.
Thanks! Wondering why I’d never heard of her. Ain’t FR grand? The things you learn around here!
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Spider Fighter
LOL
Wasps, then spiders, then snakes. That’s the rule.
And people want a woman president... Obama doesn’t count...
Perfect!
If I had saw that as a kid I probably would’ve tried to put them all on me to scare my sister.
I’m the same way, even with bees.
All things are dangerous to me but, not all things are presently dangerous to me.
I saw a small snake, but it didn’t bother me.
There was some people close by here had there
yard rolled back in the winter.
The lady of the house freaked from all the tp.
She lit the tp setting the tree on fire and it spread
to the house.
It was kinda funny,her on the tv interview saying
she couldn’t believe how tp could burn like that.
Windex works, too. I don’t care what good things they do, spiders freak me right the hell out. 3” roaches, snakes, rats- I can deal with. Spiders, not so much. brrrrr
I clipped an article out for my kids to read with the title “In a series of unfortunate events” (my kids were reading the books at the time).
Some gal in England took her hairspray and a match to the spider in her detached garage. Junk in the garage caught fire, then the garage, then the hedge, and then the house.
It will. Don’t go to sleep.
Bwahahaha!!!
Is that a jumping spider?
They’re my favorite.
:)
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