Some people really hate spiders, so much so that they go for the kill at the mere sight of the eight-legged creature. The man filling his auto up didn’t like the spider crawling around near his fill cap.
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A Michigan man set a gas pump ablaze while attempting to kill a spider with a cigarette lighter last week, Fox 2 Detroit reported on Friday.
The gas station says he apologized and even came back to the station the next day.
As you can see in the surveillance video below, the man’s vehicle quickly caught fire at the gas pump.
“He grabbed the fire extinguisher, because the lady had me on hold, so he grabbed the fire extinguisher and put it out”, Adams told WWJ, a local radio station.
The man extinguished the flames before firefighters arrived at the scene.
Shocking footage has emerged of bystanders preventing a petrol station fire in NSW ending in a tragedy.
He pulled out his lighter to burn the spider, because he was scared of it, he said.
“He [said he] was sorry, he said he didn’t know”, Adams said.
After being questioned by fire investigators though, the man cracked and admitted his 8-legged mistake.
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It’s hoped the damage will be covered by the station’s insurance. “It is just one of those things that happens – stupidity”.
