Those Germans do it again

I am back. I never cease to be amazed by human stupidity. I came across another news story here. Oh, by the way, they found Fats Domino so disregard some of the things I concluded yesterday. I am glad and stand corrected. Or as Mark Twain, I think it was he, once said, "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated".

Here is a tale of human stupidity gone wild. I know, I know, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Doesn't it always?

Well, at least the spiders are gone..
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
A German woman laid waste to her family home by setting fire to it as she tried to kill spiders in a garage with a can of hairspray and a cigarette lighter.
Police in the western town of Zuelpich said that when the aerosol failed to finish them off, the 34-year-old woman tried to burn them with the lighter. However, this set the area she had just sprayed on fire and the blaze spread to a hedge.
"It was a series of unfortunate events which led to the damage," a police spokesman said Thursday.
"She tried to put the fire out with a garden hose, but couldn't. Instead her semi-detached house next to the hedge caught fire. It's now uninhabitable."
Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze and save the neighboring house, which sustained broken windows and some charring. The spokesman estimated the total cost of the damage at well over 100,000 euros. No one was hurt.
"The family have had to look for somewhere else to stay," he said. "The spiders are gone though -- that problem was solved."

The spiders are gone, indeed. You have got to love it. Those Germans, eat each other and set their homes on fire to get rid of spiders. It makes me think that my method of a shoe is just old fashioned. It is kind of like a typewriter (huh, what's that?). I guess this method can be used for most forms of pest control. It really works. I am thinking the logical extension is the use of a nuclear bomb, small one, to rid your place of cockroaches. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but, at least, I have a glowing complexion now.

That about does it for another week. Have a great long weekend. Ciao.