Freaky Weird Stuff

A 10-legged spider was the freakiest thing I could think of. And it had pretty stiff competition from the thing I am using it to illustrate.

We have satellite TV and occasionally like a wee flick through some of the odder channels, you know, the ones selling you weird exercise equipment or somesuch. Some of those channels are evangelical ones with shouty men and we sometimes briefly pause on the shouty men as it is such a spectacle. Tonight, at around 7 o'clock, we looked at one of these channels. The shouty man in this case seemed to be standing in a church and had a crowd around him. He was holding something. He spread the object out and it was a Barn Owl. At first we though he had found the dead owl in an embarrassing place in his church and the congregation were cheering it having been flushed out of a pipe in the organ or somesuch.

But no. We watched aghast as the man carried the outstretched owl outside the church, poured petrol on in and set it on fire while the congregation recorded it on mobiles. The shouty man voiceover was shouting about what had just been witnessed and revealed to us. We stared open mouthed for some time.

Just needed to get that out of my system.

It doesn't seem to have worked.

Edit-The front "legs" are the pedipalps. They are more like arms as the spider prods things and holds food with them.