Don’t get caught in a web of bad decisions. A woman in Hutchinson,
Kansas, is charged with arson after police say she set her home on fire
during an attempt to kill a spider, the Hutchinson News reports. Ginny
M. Griffith, 34, told officers she used a cigarette lighter to set some
towels on fire around 1:30 a.m., Friday. She was hoping to catch the
little arachnid with the flaming towels and burn it to death, according
to WTSP. It’s unclear if she ever caught the spider, but the fire that
resulted did necessitate intervention from the fire department. Five
units were summoned and managed to control the fire, which they said had
multiple points of origin, within a matter of minutes. Griffith’s
aggravated arson charge stems from the fact that the other half of the
duplex was occupied when the blaze began. No one, besides potentially
the spider, was injured in the
fire and the building only suffered light
smoke damage.
