Australian man screaming at spider 'why don't you die?' triggers full police response

[IronLionZion]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/02/australian-man-screaming-at-spider-why-dont-you-die-triggers-full-police-response

Police in Western Australia have confirmed they sent multiple officers to an emergency call that turned out to be a screaming man with a “serious fear” of spiders.

A concerned passerby was walking outside a house in suburban Perth when they heard a toddler screaming and a man repeatedly shouting “Why don’t you die?”

After they called triple zero, officers arrived to find a man “trying to kill a spider”, who apologised for having an extreme fear of the arachnid.

The Wanneroo police Twitter account posted a screenshot of the police log of the incident on Wednesday morning.

“Caller walked past the AA and heard a male screaming out ‘Why don’t you die’ – repeatedly,” the log read. “The toddler inside was screaming … caller doesn’t know them, but has seen them a few times when walking”.

I get it. Spiders are scary. But they also eat mosquitoes and flies and other insects.

In the US, a few bad car accidents were caused by the driver jumping out of a running car to escape a spider.

[mickswalkabout41]

1. Here in the good ole us of A

There would be gunfire A spider that would have slinked away and a few dead bystanders

[BBG]

2. Seems a gun nut in-law went ballistic on an jnsect

Said it was in his way, confronting him as he returned home from church. So he used his god given gun to eliminate the threat.

Gun. Nut.

[IronLionZion]

3. I've been bitten by a poisonous spider and got a bad rash

and still respect these creatures as an important part of our ecosystem.