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A spokesman for Essex Fire Service said: "It appears the wife had spotted the creepy crawly in the bathroom and asked her husband to capture it.
"He sprayed it first with an aerosol where it was lurking behind the toilet bowl and when that didn't appear to work, he lit up his lighter to spread some light on the situation as the bathroom bulb had blown.
"There was an almighty explosion which blew the man back into his hallway and lifted the hatch on the loft.
"He did exactly the right thing by jumping into the shower and cooling his burns with cold water while his wife raised the alarm."
I can actually see how this happened. I've used my lighter plenty of times to look for stuff in the dark. Fortunately, I didn't do this right after using an aerosol can.
As an 'arachnophobe' myself, I don't have much empathy for this guy. The death of that spider was a lot less important than the death of that light bulb. Get new light bulb. Step away from the lighter in the room full of fumes. Deet... dee, dee. (Carlos Mencia's word for 'dumb ass')
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i did something like that once loong time ago, i was trying to get honey bees out of this old dilapidated bulldozer. there was this cavity under the seat with a large bee hive in it, well one day i poured a few cups of gas down the side of the cavity to flush the bees out so i could capture the bees when the congregated on nearby trees.. well i came back the next day and the bees were still in the cavity, so i lit a piece of paper towel and blew out the flames to leave only smoke and thru it down in tha cavity, not realizing the the fumes from the gas were still in the cavity. well i was looking down the cavity when i dropped the lit paper towel in, and boom.!!!! a vapor explosion blew me off the dozer, burned my eye brows off, took off all the hair on my forehead and burned my face, lucky the ocean was only about 300 feet away. i ran and jumped into the water to cool the burns down..
moral of the story.. don't play around with excelerants
or don't stick you head over the opening when doing something stupid, you might lose your head.
I have a small propane blowtorch and believe me, even someone as goofy as I, will use a little of 'thinking ahead'. Black widows get no mercy from me, depending on where I find them. Forget that Black Flag, they just laugh at that stuff. I go straight for my blowtorch and get the whole nest OR a can of Easy Off oven cleaner. (Again, remember, depending on where they and their nest are, for those who may have overlooked that sentence)!That stuff penetrates through the hard shells and they dont get a 2nd chance.
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