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April 3rd, 2006

Spider-hunting nudist…

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

When a headline begins with those three words, it doesn’t really matter how it ends.  In this case, though, it happens that the nudist wound up with a burned butt after trying to set fire to a spider.

The real payoff in this story is in the last paragraph, so be sure to read all the way to the end:

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A Brazilian nudist baits his hook at Praia do Pinho in 2000. The Australian nudist in the story above should have been doing something like this instead of flaming spiders.  After all — pointed metal hooks, nudists, what could go wrong? Photo by Anna Dawn/REUTERS

2 comments so far

Spiders are gross

- Posted by Emily

So are ugly naked people.

- Posted by Ben

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