Man who tried to kill spider by setting it alight starts apartment fire.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

A man who tried to kill a spider by setting it alight accidentally started an apartment fire after the burning arachnid reportedly ran under a mattress.

Fire fighters in Redding, northern California, battled the blaze for 20 minutes on Sunday after residents tried and failed to put the flames out with a garden hose.

A witness living in the flat told local newspaper the Redding Record Searchlight that a resident used a torch lighter – a cigarette lighter with a powerful flame – to burn “a huge wolf spider” in an upstairs bedroom.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/man-kills-spider-set-alight-starts-apartment-fire-accident-wolf-spider-redding-california-a8149521.html

[Ohiogal]

1. Those wolf spiders

are terrifying. I might try to set one on fire, too.

Saw one in my bathroom last fall ... My brave son trapped it in a glass and took it outside.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. They are harmless!

[Eugene]

3. This story had a familiar ring to it, so I checked Google.

At least the third time since 2014.

[TlalocW]

4. The husband of a co-worker

Shot a spider... inside the house.

He was in the living room, cleaning his guns, when he saw a large spider on the wall in the dining room. He apparently got it - not sure since there was nothing left. That's extreme arachnophobia.

TlalocW