Father, 38, dies after 'being bitten by venomous spider' he bought online just weeks beforeYes, Reader, he bought it *removes sunglasses*....on the web! Ahem!
Paying tribute to the dad-of-two, Kayleigh said: 'He was funny, caring, outgoing and such a people person. He was a brilliant dad to our two children and was always the life and soul of the party. 'He had bought five spiders online two or three weeks before and was obsessed with them. 'I think he bought them because he lived alone but he was always terrified of insects (Ed:Spiders are arachnids Kayleigh, so unlikely to have helped there, unless he planned to let them loose to eat any insects bothering him) when we were together. Even though we had split up, we were best friends. He put our children first.'
There's no news item covering this that mentions what species these spiders were, or even whether medical staff have confirmed a bite was the cause of death. But nevertheless, dim Kayleigh is demanding SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!
She added that owning the spiders should require licenses.
Well, tough. It's an oddity that the Dangerous Wild Animals Act of 1976, that regulated the keeping of dangeous animals in the UK, and inadvertantly sparked years of 'British big cat' loons theorising that this was the cause of fortean reports of pumas and panthers prowling the countryside, doesn't regulate the keeping of any invertebrates. Despite some of them being far more potentially harmful, and to far more people (looking at you, palytoxic corals!) than any venomous snake or lizard.
And I can’t see anyone looking to change that, when they’ve proven unable to stop idiots buying dogs that eat them!
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