LAUGH break - Australian man screaming at spider 'why don't you die?' triggers full police response
Multiple officers arrive at home to find Perth man with ‘serious fear’ of arachnids ‘trying to kill a spider’
Naaman Zhou @naamanzhou Wed 2 Jan 2019 16.38 AEDT Last modified on Wed 2 Jan 2019 22.31 AEDT
A Perth man apologised when a team of police officers showed up at his house. A passerby called police when they heard a toddler screaming and a man repeatedly shouting ‘Why don’t you die?’ The man was apparently just trying to kill a spider. Photograph: Tim Pinney/Alamy Stock Photo