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There's No Tarantula In Park Slope, But This Mutant Shark Might Eat You
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Jul 12, 2014
Modified Jul 12, 2014
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Good news, Park Slope denizens: it turns out that the lost pregnant Mexican Red Rump tarantula roaming your streets and threatening to steal all the stroller parking spots was a hoax. But new terrors abound—a tipster spotted this poster on a pole near Prospect Park yesterday:
There's no way that baby's fake [DISCLAIMER: This poster is probably fake]—save Buttercup before she has an asthma attack!
As for Penelope the Pregnant Spider Monster, The Times did a little digging and discovered that the South Slope missing poster declaring her lost was the work of one local resident who posted it as a joke. “I never expected it to blow up,” he told the paper. “Then I was in the train station, looking at my Twitter feed and saw this tweet from ABC about a tarantula. I thought, ‘Oh, man.’"
We can't have anything fun anymore.
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