Rather fascinating piece of animal machinery, that spider.

Also, a spatula?

NB: do not have eggs at this guy's house.

i also like spiders...they get rid of other insects. poor charlotte!

I agree with J_Temperence... why didn't the guy just let it out of the door, if he didn't want it there?The thing is, although spiders look scary, they are our friends, 'cos they get rid of all the other, harmful little creepy-crawlies. Just let them live, guys! B-]

Nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure.

Lmao @Ripley!

somethings are meant to be......... unseen

Wolf spider?

He already had the bug spray in his hand. Why didn't he just hit the spider with a concentrated blast for a few seconds until it died instead of smashing it? I wouldn't want to have to clean up spider guts from my floor and baseboard.

Bug spray alone would have no adverse effect on a spider like that.  It would have enraged it or caused it to mutate and grow and gain superpowers.  Then it would explode babies all over your face and in your mouth as you try to scream, but your screams would be muffled by the giant enraged mutant spider babies that are trying to crawl down your esophagus to lay more eggs in your stomach lining that will grow into more mutant spiders that will eat you from the inside out, saving your vital organs for last.

Then they will film this with their Iphones and put it on youtube.

Spatula THEN spray was the way to go here.

cool story brah, could have been more sexual though...

... then the giant mutant spiders crawl into your moms gaping cunt, squirming around and laying eggs all up inside her.  Then she sneezes its like a spider slime bomb explodes and covers everything in a 3 mile radius in putrid ectoplasm and mutant spiderlings ready to find a new victim.

Shit, I'm so scarred from bed bugs, I welcome spiders into my apartment. The more the merrier, fucking black widow tea party at my place.

OMG. Cannot. Be. Unseen.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT FUCK YOU GOTHAMIST SO MUCH

ps If that was my apt I would have just set the whole thing on fire and run away as fast as I could

you didn't have to press play fyi

BUT I WAS CURIOUS

It was right by the back door, and this schmuck couldn't just scoot it out, but instead had to annihilate it.  I hope a spider colony nests in his ear and eats his tiny brain.

Seriously, what an idiot.

Spiders are my favorite critter, so I may be biased...but even without, what kind of idiot kills predators?  Every spider you see means hundreds of other bugs, dead.  Thousands, even.

Dude, it's 2012, we have bug zappers, electric fly swatters, raid, etc.  Eff spiders.  They're nasty.