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Strange that they focused on that instead of the fact that a spider infestation isn't property damage. It doesn't affect the building in any way other than kill
by Causality1 6y ago
Strange that they focused on that instead of the fact that a spider infestation isn't property damage. It doesn't affect the building in any way other than killing other harmful bugs. Spider removal isn't a property damage expense any more than calling animal control to pick up a stray dog that'd gone to sleep on your rug would be.
- TheChaplain 6y agoUh, do a google image search on brown recluse spider bite, they certainly aren't harmless and could cause serious damage if let wandering around.
- seanhandley 6y agoInteresting anecdote here: > In 2001, more than 2,000 brown recluse spiders were removed from a heavily infested home in Kansas, yet the four residents who had lived there for years were never harmed by the spiders, despite many encounters with them. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#Bite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#Bite) You're right - they're not harmless - but I suspect they're not as dangerous as folklore might portray them.
- falcolas 6y agoSure, they’re not at all dangerous until you’re bitten. Just as a power tool without guards is perfectly safe until someone sticks there hand in the powered bit.
- catalogia 6y agoFor the squeamish: brown recluse venom is necrotic, it causes flesh around the bite to decay. This doesn't always happen, but it happens enough to be alarming.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoDamage in the legal sense, for property, is something that causes a reduction in the value, or the ability to enjoy the property. Even if the spiders went inherently valuable of being harmful, the face that many people are fearful of spiders makes an infestation effective damage.