© The Economic Times, India
Many people are scared of spiders. Anxious around arachnids. Afraid of eight-legged insects.
And then there's Chris White. He's truly terrified.
Here's the tangled web:
White, an apparently arachnophobic
assistant prosecutor in West Virginia has been suspended indefinitely after pulling a gun and threatening to shoot fake spiders that were being used as Halloween decorations in his office.John Bennett, prosecuting attorney of Logan County, a district in the southwest of the state, told local media that one of his assistants, Chris White, had been put on paid leave after the incident.
Like they often do during holidays, Bennett
told the Gazette-Mail, a newspaper in the state capital, Charleston, secretaries decorated the prosecutor's office at the beginning of October to mark Halloween.
"Some black, some brown โ but some pretty good sized" spider decorations were hung, Bennett said.
White "told the secretaries that he was deathly afraid of spiders, got out a gun and walked down the hall into an office," Bennett told the paper.
"He pulled out a chair, put a fake spider down and threatened to shoot all of the spiders in the place," adding that he was out of the office at the time but was told about the incident by shaken employees.
"He said they had spiders everyplace and he said he told them it wasn't funny and he couldn't stand them, and he did indeed get a gun out," Bennett
told local TV station WCHS. "
It had no clip in it, of course they wouldn't know that, I wouldn't either if I looked at it, to tell you the truth," Bennett added.
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