Someone stole 9 tarantulas off this lady's porch. 😲

[underpants]

9 tarantulas shipped to SC home are missing — and unsuspecting porch pirate may be why

A package carrying several hairy spiders is missing from a South Carolina porch — and a thief may be responsible, officials say.

The FedEx shipment of about nine tarantulas was supposed to arrive at an Upstate home on Friday, according to a report from the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.

A resident on Sunday told a deputy she received a notice that her package had been sent but didn’t see it on her doorstep, the report says.

The spider-filled shipment was worth about $1,000, according to the sheriff’s office.

https://amp.newsobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article233293882.html

[klook]

1. Kinda hope the thief opened the box in his or her car,

though for the critters’ sake, I hope they got away to their natural habitat.

[marble falls]

2. Which isn't anywhere in SC. We should be stopping the trade in "exotic" animals ...

endangered or not.

[Disaffected]

3. And private zoos.

[marble falls]

4. Especially private zoos.

[essme]

5. More than likely

they are in plastic cages, and the person is going to throw them away- in Southern August heat. They will die horrible, slow deaths.

You are correct, the exotic animal trade needs to stop. I am terrified of spiders, but I am not cruel or stupid. If one comes in my house, they are put in a "relocation facility" (an upside down mixing bowl), and taken outside on a piece of cardboard. There is no reason for a living thing (except cockroaches)- to suffer like that.

[underpants]

6. That's a image in my mind now