4 Homeowners With Problems You Didn't Know Were Possible

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Hundreds of Snakes and Thousands of Spiders Overrun Homes

Every now and then, you end up living in a witch's cauldron and you don't even know it. For no apparent reason, two of humanities greatest fears infested two different homes. Twice, in one case.

In Regina, Canada, one family, which has asked to remain anonymous so that friends and family will still visit them (seriously), keeps finding hundreds of garter snakes in their house. While it's true that garter snakes are harmless, the longest one measured nearly one meter ... and there were 102 of them. One month later, an additional 119 were removed from the house, and more remain at large. The choice to avoid warning their friends and family about their snake problem? Kind of a dick move.

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Pictured: harmless (no, really)

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Polar Bears Ruin Halloween, and a Big Mystery Cat Is on the Loose

Arviat, Canada has literally been classified as a town under siege by polar bears for over a year. About 50 bears lumber into the hamlet every season, and as many as eight have been seen in the area every day over a six week period. In fact, the problem is so bad that human/bear conflict prevention measures for Arviat have been approved and implemented, including a giant electric fence to keep them out (their first idea of making the polar bears get passports failed miserably).

Hamlet of Arviat
They were white, so border patrol agents didn't really care about keeping them out.

This year, though, it was deemed unsafe for children to go trick-or-treating outside because of the risk of polar bear attack. The bright side is that the town hall was decked out as a haunted house instead, so there was at least some Halloween for the kids. The bad news is that the polar bear problem is probably our fault.

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Kangaroos Are Street Fighting in Neighborhoods

Two kangaroos were recently seen throwing down in a New South Wales suburb. A video from an unknown location shows them punching and kicking the shit out of each other in the middle of the street, only a few feet away from front lawns and parked cars.

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The winner was Fighter One, with his complex strategy of kick-him-in-the-balls.

The fight, which lasted for over five minutes, was a struggle for dominance between two males, but why they picked upper-middle-class suburbia as the place to settle their differences is unclear. Maybe their highly choreographed musical fight numbers got drowned out in the city?

The absence of a female kangaroo to fight for is also confusing. What we do know is that kangaroos are made almost entirely out of muscles and are not to be fucked with. It should also be noted that these particular kangaroos have learned some Matrix-level fu and are brawling in midair.

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Lava Threatens Hawaiian Towns ... for Months

The eruption of the Kilauea volcano has caused slow-moving lava to flow toward the Hawaiian town of Pahoa, causing residents to wake up each morning and ask themselves, "Will my house be destroyed today?" And then they go to work and live their lives because, "Maybe not?"

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They don't leave, though. You'd be a fool to leave Hawaii.