Why There's an Xbox One Game Stuck to My Ceiling

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8 pointsjjar3 comments

Why do people get so freaked out by spiders that they have to kill them? I know in Australia they can usually kill you too but generally they don't want to.

All the hassle this guy went through and it could have easily been done with a glass and the Xbox game case, releasing it outside instead of now having a dead and decomposing spider stuck on his ceiling behind an Xbox game.

It isn't rational, but it is visceral. They do courses to treat arachnophobia, but most people don't take them, because ultimately it doesn't impact on their life that much.

I catch and release spiders, but I understand the fear.

A relative of mine was once bitten by a spider and went into an anaphylactic state and had to be hospitalized. She didn't know she had that allergy until it happened.

She wound up being put on a corticosteroid IV which made her pre-diabetic thereafter, as shown on subsequent medical tests. All that from an encounter with a spider.

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