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

[fauxparadiso]

Omg, I just watched the video and lollllled for days. It's like you could hear it's tiny spider voice saying "Yeah, I'm on the Pope. Whatchu gonna do about it? Where's your Popemobile now? COME AT ME MOTHERF--KERS!"

In another way, they REALLY should have notified him, since that could have been poisonous.

[govthookers]

How appropriate. After all, spinning the web of deception is what the catholic church does best.

[jasonbeast]

How appropriate. After all, spinning the web of deception is what organized religion does best.

Fixed that for you.

[govthookers]

Sounds even better :D

[layweed]

Aha, Twilit Arachnia icon.

[keeperofthekeys]

lol, I thought this thing was gonna be massive, like the Shelob I had run into my apt a few months back. But no.

Though, to be fair, if that thing were crawling on me...yeah, I'd probably freak out.

[bagelofdeath]

I am disappointed by how small it is. I had pictured a huntsman coming over his shoulder, one leg at a time.

[morbidoutlook]

D:, If that was me my body would just stop functioning due to the absolute horror.

[mercystars]

Same here, I was thinking it was one of those golden orb weavers!

[everythingonit]

... -___- the thought alone... is making me have shudders