Large spider upstages Catholic creepy-crawly on Czech television

[paulnolan]

Pope Ratzinger warned godless Czechs this weekend that societies exclude God at their peril.

History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when he excludes God from the horizon of his choices and actions.

But it wasn’t his televised message that mesmerised millions, but a large spider that went directly for the pontiff neck.

Comments

[pennieblack]

Holy crumpets. Brb, soaking my dorm in Raid. D:

[rex_dart]

About halfway through I began to wonder if this was an Onion article due to the lovingly detailed description of the spider's journey.

[leelakin]

The video is awesome, I could almost hear the spider going "wheeee!" as it went round and round the Pope's neck XD

[germli]

The spider in the pic doesn't look that bad but put it near me and I'll probably shit a brick or two. Bad experience with a bite once.

[dacian_goddess]

When it reached his ear, Ratzi gave it a swat. But it didn’t go away

I'm stuck between imagining a v feeble swat à la Mr Burns and wanting to do the all but cliché photoshop of him with lightning-happy fingers.

[escherichiacola]

That thing is fast. Though when they mentioned "large" I was hoping it'd be like, dinner plate sized. Yeah, most Czechs pretty much gave up on religion after learning there's no beer in heaven.

[paulnolan]

That thing is fast. Though when they mentioned "large" I was hoping it'd be like, dinner plate sized.

Maybe one day, if a repeat performance happens in Brazil or thereabouts...

[everythingonit]

If something like that goes for the Pope, oh man, lights out Pope. Lights out everyone.