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Title: Brit IT Engineer Fights Spider with Improvised Flame Thrower - Gets Surprise
Post by: Chris_ on August 31, 2010, 02:41:22 PM
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/improvised_flamethrower/

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An IT engineer who attempted to dispatch a spider with an improvised flamethrower ended up on the wrong end of his own can of deodorant, the Sun reports.

Dad-of-two Chris Welding, of Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, explained: "It was about 10.30pm last night. My wife was getting ready for bed and suddenly she let out a scream. She said there was a spider in the bathroom and asked me to get rid of it - neither she or the kids would go in there.

"The spider had crawled into the recess behind the loo and there was no way I could get to it."

He continued: "Stupid as it is, I grabbed a can of deodorant and a lighter and sprayed it behind the loo. The flame shot out and went round the back of the toilet and came back out at me. It was a bit of a shock."

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Rest at link......

doc
Title: Re: Brit IT Engineer Fights Spider with Improvised Flame Thrower - Gets Surprise
Post by: bijou on August 31, 2010, 02:46:20 PM
Ah, Essex, the Florida of England.  :lmao:
Title: Re: Brit IT Engineer Fights Spider with Improvised Flame Thrower - Gets Surprise
Post by: Texacon on August 31, 2010, 02:47:15 PM
That's what socialized medicine will do for you ..... a couple of small burns on the fingers and you get a 'free' ride in an ambulance where you are taken to the hospital and told you're ok .... all for 'free'.

If this had happened to anyone I know ... not only would they not have gone to the dr. but they wouldn't even be telling anyone it happened!  LOL

KC
Title: Re: Brit IT Engineer Fights Spider with Improvised Flame Thrower - Gets Surprise
Post by: Chris_ on August 31, 2010, 03:00:05 PM
Ah, Essex, the Florida of England.  :lmao:

Careful.....I used to live in Chelmsford........

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