Police rush to prevent murder, find dead spider
‘What about the women screaming?’ asked cops. Male: ‘Yeah, sorry that was me. I really really hate spiders’
Alerted by neighbors who feared a woman was being murdered, police dashed to a home in Sydney, Australia, this week to find that a killing had indeed occurred, but the victim was a spider.
The cops were called to Wollstonecraft in northern Sydney early on Sunday morning, the Guardian reported Thursday, after reports of a woman screaming hysterically, a man threatening “I’m going to kill you, you’re dead. Die! Die!”, and the sounds of crashing furniture.
Arriving at the apartment in question, police said the door was opened by a man who was “out of breath and rather flushed.”
The Sydney police posted the ensuing conversation on Facebook:
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”
At this point the male became very sheepish.
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.”
Added the police post: “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.”
The cops did not disclose the species of the deceased arachnid.
