Spyder Sendoff

By Jim Hagarty

In spider hunting news, a man in the United States set his house on fire a while back and caused $60,000 damage to it when he tried to incinerate a spider with a homemade blowtorch. His big mistake? Using a homemade torch.

For Pete’s sake just put down the money for a real blowtorch and kill safely away!

I have four Spyder Sendoff blowtorches at my house in various locations and whenever I see one of those creepies crawling along, I just whip out one of these awesome little devices and barbecue it. I hope this guy has learned his lesson and gets the proper equipment in the future.

And I wish him all the best with his new fire insurance company.

And, I am guessing, the divorce lawyer he didn’t know he would need.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.