Spiders make most of us squeamish, but one Australian man got so worked up the neighbours called the cops.

On Saturday, police in a suburb of Sydney received reports of a violent domestic incident, with accounts of a woman screaming while a man shouted "I'm going to kill you, you're dead! Die, Die!"

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Police also received reports from people claiming to hear furniture being thrown around the apartment, so multiple police cars were sent to investigate the scene.

Harbourside Local Area Command, the police jurisdiction where the incident took place, posted a transcript of the conversation the man had with police about the matter to Facebook and it is nothing short of ridiculous.

Police: "Where’s your wife?" Male: “Um, I don’t have one.” Police: "Where your girlfriend?" Male: "Um, I don’t have one." Police: "We had a report of a domestic and a woman screaming, where is she?" Male: "I don’t know what you’re talking about, I live alone.” Police: "Come on mate, people clearly heard you yelling you were going to kill her and furniture getting thrown around the unit"

At this point, according to Harbourside LAC, the man then got a bit embarrassed by the whole ordeal.

Police: “Come on mate, what have you done to her?” Male: “It was a spider...” Police “Sorry?” Male: “It was a spider, a really big one!" Police : "What about the woman screaming?" Male: "Yeah sorry that was me, I really really hate spiders."

He may have made himself look like a sobbing manchild in front of the local police, but at least he was honest.