-
JacksSmirkingRevenge
- Grand Wazoo
- Posts: 13516
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:56 pm
- About me: Half man - half yak.
- Location: Perfidious Albion
-
Contact:
Post
by JacksSmirkingRevenge » Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:08 pm
http://home.bt.com/news/oddnews/man-bur ... 3920300229
A US man caused £35,000 of damage to his home after trying to kill a spider with a blowtorch made from a can of spray paint and a lighter.
The arachnophobe, who was renting the house in west Seattle with his mother, managed to cause $60,000 (£35,000) worth of damage when he ignited the blaze at just before 8.30pm on Tuesday.
Kyle Moore, a spokesman for the Seattle Fire Department, said the man used the spray paint and lighter as "a self-made blowtorch to kill a spider in the laundry room".
"I don't want to encourage people to do this, but that's what he did,” he added.
"The spider tried to get into the wall. He sprayed flames on the wall, lit the wall on fire, and that extended up to the ceiling."
Sent from my Interositor using Twatatalk.
-
JimC
- The sentimental bloke
- Posts: 74394
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
- About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
-
Contact:
Post
by JimC » Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:13 pm
"Kill it with fire!"
That meme has now had its revenge...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
-
tattuchu
- a dickload of cocks
- Posts: 21890
- Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:59 pm
- About me: I'm having trouble with the trolley.
- Location: Marmite-upon-Toast, Wankershire
-
Contact:
Post
by tattuchu » Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:18 pm
Spiders are your friends. They eat small insects. Adopt a spider today!
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
-
JimC
- The sentimental bloke
- Posts: 74394
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
- About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
-
Contact:
Post
by JimC » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:02 pm
tattuchu wrote:Spiders are your friends. They eat small insects. Adopt a spider today!
Perhaps not a Sydney Funnel Web, though...
Even in that case, I would suggest the back of a slipper rather than a blow-torch...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
-
klr
- (%gibber(who=klr, what=Leprageek);)
- Posts: 32964
- Joined: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:25 pm
- About me: The money was just resting in my account.
- Location: Airstrip Two
-
Contact:
Post
by klr » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:07 pm
An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea
- old Turkish proverb
God has no place within these walls, just like facts have no place within organized religion. - Superintendent Chalmers
It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
-
Tero
- Just saying
- Posts: 51982
- Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:50 pm
- About me: 8-34-20
- Location: USA
-
Contact:
Post
by Tero » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:22 pm
What was he doing with £35,000 in his house? He must burn dollars!
-
Hermit
- Posts: 25806
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:44 am
- About me: Cantankerous grump
- Location: Ignore lithpt
-
Contact:
Post
by Hermit » Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:49 am
Bad article is bad. Did he kill the spider or did it manage to escape? That remains the burning question.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
-
JimC
- The sentimental bloke
- Posts: 74394
- Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:58 am
- About me: To be serious about gin requires years of dedicated research.
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
-
Contact:
Post
by JimC » Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:09 am
Hermit wrote:Bad article is bad. Did he kill the spider or did it manage to escape? That remains the burning question.
A CSI team is currently examining the house in detail to answer this question...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests
