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underpants

(182,279 posts)
Wed Jul 31, 2019, 09:16 AM Jul 2019

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

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

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Someone stole 9 tarantulas off this lady's porch. 😲 (Original Post) underpants Jul 2019 OP
Kinda hope the thief opened the box in his or her car, klook Jul 2019 #1
Which isn't anywhere in SC. We should be stopping the trade in "exotic" animals ... marble falls Jul 2019 #2
And private zoos. Disaffected Jul 2019 #3
Especially private zoos. marble falls Jul 2019 #4
More than likely essme Jul 2019 #5
That's a image in my mind now underpants Jul 2019 #6

klook

(12,134 posts)
1. Kinda hope the thief opened the box in his or her car,
Wed Jul 31, 2019, 09:22 AM
Jul 2019

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

marble falls

(56,359 posts)
2. Which isn't anywhere in SC. We should be stopping the trade in "exotic" animals ...
Wed Jul 31, 2019, 09:34 AM
Jul 2019

endangered or not.

essme

(1,207 posts)
5. More than likely
Wed Jul 31, 2019, 02:14 PM
Jul 2019

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.

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