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By oops - 04/12/2009 17:23 - United States

Today, I saw a moth trapped in a spider web. Feeling gracious, I gently freed it, and then took it to the window to let it out. When I opened the window to set him free, my $300 air conditioner fell two stories and smashed on the sidewalk. The moth flew away. FML
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suaveneanderthal 0

what the hell did you think the moth was going to do? Upon seeing your precious air conditioner the moth was supposed to go out and buy you a new one? "The moth flew away" what a great way to end that story, i was expecting it to suck your balls in gratitude, not selfishly get the **** away from the place that it had first been trapped and then had been freed by a ****** giant.

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teiso_fml 0

Why is the life of the moth more valuable than the life of the spider?

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wafflemonger 0

I was about to click "YDI," but then I realized it said "air conditioner," not "hair conditioner." Oops.

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NeW_Daddy 0

wow that was really harsh and uncalled for

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youthink_fml 0

and accurate. how ******' stupid.

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tkarin 0

Well, it's better that the moth flew away. It'd be even more of an FML if something bad had happened to IT, too.

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Anne553 0

why free the moth? Moths eat leaves and kill trees while spiders never harmed anybody

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abradant_spoon 0

i take it you've never been bitten by a spider.

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DohIMissed 6

True, but spiders only attack when you bother them.

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GreenRupee 0

The moth probably got trapped in another spider web...

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snake_Girl85 0

"Today I was feeling gracious and stole a carrot from a starving rabbit. The carrot never thanked me. FML" YDI, let nature take it's course. You saved a moth because you were watching it "suffer," Yet that moth probably lasted a whopping 30 minutes out in a world of natural predators (and cold temps, depending on where you live). Meanwhile the spider lost a meal. Predatory animals have just as much of a right to live as prey animals. Also, studies show that insects are basically computers, they don't really have the capacity to feel pain. If you chop a grasshopper in half, it runs around confused and irritated for a bit (a nervous response rather than an emotional one), and then goes right back to eating, not a very stressed out animal. Really, this just irks me because it represents the typical attitude people have towards nature... that being benevolent toward innocent prey animals is a good thing, and predatory animals are inherently evil (which is why the food chain is so effed up without wolves and the like). *Trips and falls off soapbox*

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Dump_fml 0

I agree with what you wrote, except that cold temps probably aren't a problem if the a/c unit was in the window. Bitch should have eaten the moth and spider. At least somebody would have benefited.

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Sashiko 0

Why the **** would you open a window with an AC unit in it?

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brontide 0

It's December, why wasn't the unit removed two months ago? It's below freezing in almost 100% of the state.

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eoghanface 0

And you didnt for one second think about the spider who would have been delighted to find a moth in his/her web, no? Seriously i cant believe someone would set a moth free and deny a spider a nice meal. Moths are soo ******* annoying, their all hairy an they fly around all annoyin like, seriously people have this big thing against spiders an all they do is chill out in the corner mindin their own bussiness..

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teiso_fml 0

The word phobia suggesting that it's an UNREASONABLE fear. I agree, spiders have such a bad rep but most of them are harmless, and even the ones that aren't, only bother you when you bother them. They're such interesting creatures, and they have such an important role in the ecosystem. If all mammals were to disappear, the remaining life would adapt and thrive without us, but if all invertibrates were to suddenly disappear, all other life, including plantlife, would eventually die off without them.

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lifeinhd 3

You took away the spider's moth? Great, now the spider's gonna die, and what're your wasps gonna eat?

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brigurl92 0

wtf? i never comment fml's but wat the hell did u expect the moth 2 do, look out the window and sympathize with u? it was supposed 2 say "oh i'm sooo sorry! i'll buy u a new 1 since u set me free!" ydi

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