A young British father of three is lucky to be alive after picking up a spider that he didn’t realize was poisonous.
The arachnid in question turned out to be a false widow spider, which the picker-upper, Nickie King, didn’t realize until he posted a picture of the spider on Facebook.
He told the Daily Express what happened:
He said: “I was cleaning and this spider dropped on to my feather duster.
“It made me jump. I thought it was just a common spider so I picked it up with my hands and put it outside.
“It didn’t bite me or anything. I didn’t know what it was so I took a picture of it and put it on Facebook to ask people.
“Lots of people said it was a false widow and saying I was lucky I didn’t get bitten. They were saying I shouldn’t have picked it up.”
Sometimes taking risks and then realizing how stupid it was after the fact pays off.
(Via Daily Express)