"Come on mate, what have you done to her?” Police were questioning a “flushed” and “out of breath” man who had answered the door to a flat in Wollstonecraft, a small harborside suburb of Sydney, Australia.
The booming sounds of a man shouting “I’m going to kill you” and a “woman screaming hysterically” had earlier echoed through the apartment block, sometime before 2.00am. The commotion disturbed neighbors, who were quick to alert the local police force.
"Where’s your wife?” asked one of the policemen. “I don’t have one,” the homeowner responded, after inhaling some air. “Where’s your girlfriend?” the officer continued. “I don’t have one,” he said.
The officers then told the man that neighbors had heard death threats, screams and the crash of furniture being flung around the apartment. “It was a spider,” the man tentatively explained.
Incredulous, the policeman asked: “What about the women screaming?” “Yeah sorry that was me,” he said. “I really, really hate spiders.”
Conscious that this could just be an audacious lie, the police searched the trashed apartment. However, they found just one victim, a “rather large” spider. After an awkward pause broken by relieved laughter, the police left.
True story.