Along came a spider...

[Phoenix]

...and away he went....

So I'm in my basement restroom, using the facilities as it were, and I happen to glance up. Just out of my reach, on an archway along the ceiling, I see a nasty looking spider. Black. Big. Mean looking. Nothing I really recognized. But, he's beyond my reach. What to do?

Well, on my wet bar just outside the restroom, I happened to have left a can of Lysol disinfectant spray....I also happened to have my trusty lighter in the pocket of my sweat pants I am wearing. I ask myself, "Self, I wonder if that spray is...combustible....".....I give it a trial spray...VERY combustible! It was like a flame thrower. So, I aim the Lysol at the spider, fire up my lighter, and WHAM!! Just a SECOND of flame thrower, and that spider was SO toast!

Kind of made my evening in a depraved kind of way.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

FYI -- children know how to make a makeshift flame-thrower using a disinfectant spray/WD-40/whatever and a lighter

 

[Signals]

I learned years ago, without the application of fire, common household chemicals don't seem to phase giant roaches. However, I found something else that will kill those Texas Titans.

One evening while falling asleep I heard this; tipity tipity tipity tip on top of a box over in the corner by the window. As I rolled over my worst fears were realized as this mammoth roach scaled the box; casting it's slimy silhouette from the street lamp outside my window.

I was not going to sleep until it was extinguished. After a few heavy handed swats and a couple of broken leg fragments I realized this monster wasn't going to die without a fight. Lacking any bug killer it was up to me to use creative warfare to rid myself of this dreaded bug, the enemy of my peaceful nights sleep.

Then it hit me! scalding water! yeah thats what I'll do, boil water. :laugh2:

Long story short, this thing jumped about a foot, made a loud pop exploding from the inside out then died.

I also learned that freezing bug to death with gum remover in a aerosol can doesn't work either as they resume their life after they thaw out.

 

[ologan]

Man,you guys are playing with fire. Don't you know PETA is everywhere?

 

[WV Cowboy]

...and WHAM!! Just a SECOND of flame thrower, and that spider was SO toast!

Kind of made my evening in a depraved kind of way.

I get it.

 

[Yeagermeister]

Brainpaint just farts on them :laugh2:

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Brainpaint just farts on them :laugh2:

Is that where the term "barking spiders" comes from?

 

[Yeagermeister]

Is that where the term "barking spiders" comes from?

It's more of an AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH instead of a bark. :laugh2:

 

[big dog cowboy]

:laugh2:

 

[DallasCowpoke]

It's more of an AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH instead of a bark. :laugh2:

Poor Charlotte!!