Overkill with spiders
This woman was so scared of a spider, she lit her apartment on fire. Credit: Shutterstock

8. Overkill with spiders

A recurring joke goes that the best way to get rid of spiders in a house is to "burn it all down." However, the girl, in this case, took the instruction far too seriously.

“One of my roommates, Dave, used to be a firefighter. He returns home one day, weary. We could smell the smoke, which meant he'd been in a fight. When I asked him about it, he gave me a sad but amusing face. An Instagram model set fire to her apartment complex for some picture shoots by filling her room with candles. She'd act as if she was doing yoga iamidhundreds of candles. However, she noticed a spider on one of the lit candles... So she sprayed it with Raid. The room erupted into a frenzy of activity, and she was terrified; she tossed the Raid bottle into the fire and then ran across the hall to her shower."

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