KPTV picks up the story from there:
A teenage girl in Forest Grove (Oregon) called 911 not for an emergency, but instead for a spider.
Police said it happened during the night of Aug. 16.
"I'm home alone and there is a giant spider on the back of my couch, and I'm talking giant. I've never seen a spider this big and I have no idea what to do," she told the slightly perplexed dispatcher, according to 911 records.
The girl estimated the spider was the size of a baseball, similar to a tarantula.
An officer did respond to the scene and estimated the spider was about 2 inches in diameter.
Modern police equipment was not necessary to handle the eight-legged perp in this case.
The officer disposed of the spider with an old-fashioned rolled up newspaper, police said.
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