'I'll burn it to the ground': Woman abandons car after terrifying discovery
A young Queensland woman has reminded people to “always” check their car door handles after finding a creepy crawly clinging to the vehicle.
Madeline Mullett, from the Sunshine Coast, jokingly wrote on Facebook on Thursday she’s now considering selling her Hyundai i30.
“Or I’ll burn it to the ground,” she wrote.
“Friendly remind to always, always check your door handles.”
Ms Mullett was freaked out by an enormous spider, believed to be a huntsman, which had crawled under her car door handle. She included a picture of the arachnid adding, “yes, he’s alive”.
“In fact, he’s still there,” she wrote,
“I just cancelled my plans for this afternoon.”
Viewers also recoiled in horror of the car-stealing spider with more than 460 likes.
“It’s his car now,” one woman wrote.
Another added she’d “burn the car to the ground too”.
Others suggested ways to deal with the unwelcome bug.
One man recommended carrying bug spray in the car, another said spraying the spider with hose could be effective.
But some were far more lenient.
“How can spiders seriously bother you someone? It’s more scared of you,” one woman wrote.
Another man told her not to kill it.
“As scary as they look, they are not dangerous and they eat mosquitos and more dangerous spiders,” he wrote.
“They’re good to have around if you can get used to them.”
Ms Mullett replied saying she wasn’t going to kill the spider as she was too scared to get close enough.
Earlier this month, police in Perth thought they had a potentially tragic incident on their hands when they were called to a house after reports of a toddler screaming and a man shouting death threats.
Multiple police units arrived at a property on Wednesday morning after neighbours heard a child’s piercing screams and a man repeatedly yelling, “Why don’t you die?”.
Fearing the worst, officers “responded lights and sirens” to the incident only to find a man had simply been trying to kill a spider.
Arachnophobes would have been even more horrified by video which emerged in Brazil.
Skin-crawling footage showed a sky filled with spiders in Minas Gerais, south eastern Brazil, earlier this month as the eight-legged creatures weaved a giant ceiling-shaped web.
Video of the phenomenon pans across the sky, which appears to be covered in black dots. However, the dark objects are spiders moving about in the giant canopy-like web.
João Pedro Martinelli Fonseca filmed the video at his grandparents’ farm in Espírito Santo do Dourado, about 250km north-east of São Paulo, the Guardian reported.
He told local newspapers he was “stunned and scared,” the outlet reported.
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