June 06, 2020

Greetings fellow Bizarros:

A family was driven from their suburban St. Louis home when the spiders started oozing from the walls.

Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 home overlooking two golf holes at Whitmoor Country Club and soon afterward started seeing brown recluse spiders everywhere. Once when showering, Susan dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.

She told a St. Louis television station the spiders "started bleeding out of the walls," and at least two pest control companies were unable to eradicate the infestation.

The couple filed a claim in with their insurance company and a lawsuit against the home's previous owners for not disclosing the brown recluse problem.

At a civil trial in St. Charles County University of Kansas biology professor Jamel Sandidge estimated there were between 4,500 and 6,000 spiders in the home.

The jury awarded the couple slightly more than $472,000, but the former owners declared bankruptcy, the insurance company still didn't pay anything and the couple moved out two years ago.

The home, now owned by the Federal National Mortgage Association, was covered with nine tarps this week and workers filled it with a gas that permeated the walls to kill the spiders and their eggs.

"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy, president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.

Bizarrely,
Lewis

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Burger Batterer Busted

According to police, Tanya Cordero, 47, was arrested following a confrontation with her boyfriend. The confrontation between Cordero and her boyfriend was reportedly touched off when Cordero became upset when the man closed a window in her room. So, investigators allege, Cordero "smashed hamburger in his face." When questioned by police, Cordero "denied doing so, but [her boyfriend] still had hamburger in his ear upon arrival." Cordero, cops added, "made a comment that she hoped he choked on the burger." Charged with domestic battery, a misdemeanor, Cordero was later released from the county jail on her own recognizance. In January, she was convicted of battering her boyfriend during an October 2019 argument about one of their children's Halloween costume. Sounds like a healthy relationship.

Lost wallet returned with $5,000 still inside

A British Columbia woman said she was overwhelmed with relief when a wallet she lost at a Walmart store was returned with its contents -- more than $5,000 in cash -- still intact. River Johnson of Enderby said she returned home from taking her elderly parents shopping at the Walmart store in Vernon before she realized she no longer had the wallet, which contained $7,000 in Canadian currency. Johnson said she called the store, even though it was closed at the time, and was relieved when a an employee answered the phone. "He said 'don't you worry, now you can sleep tonight, it's in our safe,'" Johnson said. Johnson returned the following day and was told that a manager, Ralph Buisine, had found the wallet and stored it in the safe. "He's an unspoken hero, he saved my business," Johnson said. "I've had wallets lost with less than that in them and never returned, or returned without the money." She's lucky she's Canadian. In the U.S. that much cash would have been confiscated as a civil forfeiture.