Logan County, WV Assistant Prosecutor doesn’t like spiders
According to WCHS-TV County assistant prosecutor Chris White was suspended when Halloween decoration spiders freaked him out and he drew his own firearm and threatened to shoot the toys;
The alleged incident happened on October 5th after several secretaries in the office decorated for Halloween. The decorations included many fake spiders that were throughout the office. Apparently, White has arachnophobia and became irate over the decorations.
“He said they had spiders everyplace and he said he told them it wasn’t funny, and he couldn’t stand them, and he did indeed get a gun out. It had no clip in it, of course they wouldn’t know that, I wouldn’t either if I looked at it, to tell you the truth,” Bennett explained.
Bennett says it’s his understanding that White didn’t point the gun at anyone or wave it around but did threaten to shoot all of the spiders. Bennett says the incident caused quite the scare for the three secretaries that witnessed it.
Chill, dude, they’re toy spiders.
Thanks to Chief Tango for the link.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
Happy……
People who play with spiders eventually turn into serial killers.
There. Now that you’ve read it on the internet, it must be true.
bonjour
HALLOWEEN
ChipNASA, you bring that thing to my house and I will smack you silly. Then I’ll turn the spider loose.
C’mon, Ex-PH2 – what’s not to like? (smile)
Tarantulas do make acceptable pets, but not everyone wants them as pets.
Agreed. Had to trap and relocate one or two when we lived in the Southwest. Didn’t have any desire to keep them as pets.
They’re a lot prettier than camel spiders!
They are indeed beautiful creatures.
Then again, so is a black widow spider. And I don’t want those around, either.
I feel the same Hondo. I love watching black widows – but not enough to take one of the little ones to the ER…
So I admire them right up until the bug spray (or my foot) puts an end to them.
Bingo. Any venomous creature that could literally make me sick as hell – or could kill one of my pets or a child who’s visiting – goes. Period.
They either get relocated or destroyed.
(Yeah, I know most tarantulas aren’t that venomous. They got relocated for their own good.)
Um, wow. I hear its all relative in West Virginia…
ROFL
Hey! Be nice. Us Mountain Williams do the best we can.
He must have a helluva lotta holes in his floors and walls at home. Spiders aren’t exactly rare in WV. At least the folks in Logan county have something to talk about for the next few years. It ain’t exactly a happening place. I’m sure White will be seeing more pictures of spiders and toy spiders in the coming months than he ever dreamed existed.
(As for the incest reference, unless something changed this year, there is a state in which incest is NOT outlawed. It ain’t WV. It’s New Jersey. Besides, now that sodomites can marry–indeed, have a newfound fundamental right to marry, how long before will it be before state laws banning incest and marriage between close blood relatives are struck down?)
As an arachnophobe myself, I certainly understand the sentiment… but dude, you’re in public and on the job. Grow up a little.
He didn’t draw the gun to shoot the spiders. It’s fairly obvious that he took the opportunity to intimidate his employees. There’s a lot more going on here than a fear of spiders.
You’re probably right, PN. But maybe not. A serious phobia can make people act way out of character.
One of the mentally toughest people I ever knew showed me that. Late in life, he had to have an MRI. His wife told me he went bonzo when they put him in the tube and the noise began – absolutely falling-to-pieces terrified and on the edge of a breakdown.
Turns out he and his brother had been trapped in an abandoned coal mine by a cave-in as kids – luckily, only for a relatively short period of time. That happened probably close to 70 years before his aborted MRI.
Neither his wife nor I ever knew that. He was great at hiding what I presume was serious claustrophobia – probably by largely avoiding situations that could trigger panic (though I know he did do some cave tours during his life). But that day it got the better of him.
Fear can indeed be a mind killer.
Most people know they have phobias. Most people also know that plastic spiders are a common Halloween decoration. And most people would have had the sense to correlate the two, AND NOT PULL A GUN ON PLASTIC SPIDERS AROUND THEIR EMPLOYEES. And if for some reason a ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR could not extrapolate such a natural course of events (Halloween = plastic spiders = office decoration = maybe I should say something to the secretaries) that far in advance, I would recommend that the most dangerous thing he should be allowed to carry in the future should be his car keys!
No argument. And as I said, you’re probably right.
But everyone does have something that can push them over the edge, and what that is isn’t always rational or apparent. That’s all I was saying.
I personally know someone with a serious case of arachnophobia. I would NOT want to be next to them if they confronted a large spider – toy or real – unexpectedly. I have no idea how they’d react, except to say I’m certain their reaction would be both disproportionate and irrational.
True. And for what it’s worth…I’ve seen a lot of very solid people sedated for MRIs. There’s just something about that tiny little tube.
Definitely not my favorite experience on earth (I’ve had 3 or 4). And I can certainly see how someone who’s even mildly claustrophobic could have a problem with the experience.
And as a personal side note: I don’t have a real phobia of spiders, but I do prefer infrequent interaction with them. The opposite is not the case, however. I am some kind of involuntary ‘spider whisperer’: the damn things will come to me from across the room. More times than I care to remember, I’ve had them let themselves down from the ceiling to sit on my shoulders, my head, and the book that I’m reading. They will crawl up my legs from the floor. Climb in the bathtub with me. I won’t even talk about the horror movie effect of being in a stable late one evening, and looking up to see literally dozens of cookie spiders descending above my head. Thank god that most of the spiders I’ve attracted were harmless, and the only thing that ever bit me was a tiny wolf spider.
It’s a fact that insects and arachnids are attracted to pheromones, maybe you have a much more irresistible aura about you than you ever though you did, PN!
Okay, I suffer arachnophobia, enough that I had to scroll rapidly past the YouTube videos posted above (FUCK ALL OF YOU for that, by the way), and I have told the story of how I once very nearly shot a tarantula. However, in my case, it was an actual giant fucking spider, it startled me, and it was in my bedroom. As far as I’m concerned, it was purely self-defense. My little sister (who removed the tarantula in question with no shots fired) still gives me shit for it to this day.
While I don’t exactly like plastic spiders, either, I recognize them as (slightly disturbing) inanimate objects. I don’t brandish firearms when I see one. This little episode is ridiculous, and the individual in question needs to grow some balls. It ain’t like the fucking things were real.
Assistant Prosecutor.
Hate to be the guy who gets brought up on shoplifting charges and happens to have a visible spider tat.
“Your Honor, we’re seeking the death penalty in this case.”
http://bearingarms.com/prosecutor-went-student-nra-shirt-pulls-gun-fake-spiders
This same prosecutor had a kid who wore a NRA t shirt to school arrested.
Hmmm. Maybe he is simply an j-hole control freak opposed to private firearms ownership instead of someone with a serious phobia.
Figures.
OH, something tells me he’ll do something a Bernathian degree of stupid one of these days!!
Pretty sure that anyone that wasn’t a local prosecutor or politician that brandished a weapon at work would have caught a felony…double that for a job at a government office.
1988 Ft Polk. Tacfire training park. Our setup was a little always down a narrow trail. We would plant a rubber snake on the trail to keep 1SG from bugging us, he was deathly afraid.
I almost crapped myself laughing. That pantiwaist pulled a gun on a spider?