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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums6,000 Venomous Brown Recluse Spiders Infest Missouri Couple's Home
A Missouri couple is facing a web of legal troubles after their home was infested with an estimated 6,000 venomous spiders.
The Torsts bought their Weldon Spring country club home, which overlooks a golf course, in October of 2007. But they haven't been able to live in the house for years because of the massive infestation of brown recluse spiders.
According to KMOV, the home has become known to locals as "the spider house." Earlier this week, an exterminator's brightly colored tarp tented the house as it was pumped full of pesticide. For the Torsts, the creepy, crawly ordeal has been anything but a day at the circus.
In 2008, the Torsts sued the home's former owners for failing to disclose that the house was essentially a fancy cave for spiders to breed in. A biologist consulted in the suit said the estimated number of spiders on the property was very conservative, since the numbers were drawn in the winter, when the arachnids are less active.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/10/brown-recluse-spider-infestation-missouri_n_5965116.html
valerief
(53,235 posts)Science!
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)GAAAH!!!!!
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Burn the house down, burn the town down, heck, burn the entire state of Missouri down.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)only way to be sure.