Spiders can be pretty horrific and sometimes deadly beasts. Especially if you’re in Australia.

So this guy can be forgiven for his rather extreme reaction in Wollstonecraft, New South Wales, where police were called to a ‘violent domestic incident’.

Furniture was thrown, screams were heard, and there were threats to kill.

But what happened next can only be told with any effect through this transcript from Harbourside LAC:



Police: ‘Where’s your wife’

Male: ‘umm I don’t have one’

Police: ‘Where your girlfriend’

Male: ‘umm I don’t have one’

Police: ‘We had a report of a domestic and a women screaming, where is she?’

Male: ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about I live alone’

Police: ‘Come on mate people clearly heard you yelling you were going to kill her and furniture getting thrown around the unit’

But then came the clincher:


Police: ‘come on mate, what have you done to her.’
Male: ‘it was a spider’
Police ‘Sorry??’
Male: ‘It was a spider, a really big one!!
Police :’what about the women screaming?’
Male: ‘Yeah sorry that was me, I really really hate spiders


It sounds like the spider didn’t survive.



Police added: ‘As it turns out the male was chasing a rather large spider around the unit with a can or mortein. After a very long pause some laughter and a quick look in the unit to make sure there was no injured party (apart from the spider) we left.’



Metro