Summary: Being deathly afraid of spiders caused neighbors to mistaken an encounter between a man and a spider as a domestic dispute.
A fear of spiders can be a seriously debilitating disease that causes people to do extreme things in order to get away from the creepy crawlers. A man in Michigan used a lighter to scare a spider away from the gas tank of his car, which obviously did not result in the best outcome, In Australia, a woman jumped from her moving vehicle when she noticed a spider on her shoulder, leaving her son in the car alone.
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One man’s fear of spiders was mistaken by neighbors as a domestic dispute. They heard a man shouting “I’m going to kill you” followed by a woman’s screams and loud sounds of crashing furniture and thuds, prompting calls to the police. Multiple police cars were then sent to the location to find only a man at the residence.
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When the man was questioned, the truth came out that he was running around the apartment with a can of insect spray yelling and screaming as he jumped from furniture to furniture. Police were skeptical but after a thorough search of the apartment, they determined there was no woman inside, just a dead spider.
Source: http://www.shockingtimes.co.uk/police-called-to-domestic-dispute-find-man-screaming-at-spider/
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