A train driver in Germany found a parcel left in the passenger area of a train that contained 20 live tarantulas. The large, hairy spiders did not disrupt rail traffic, police said.
A German train driver found a box packed with 20 live tarantula spiders accidentally left aboard, police said Friday.
The forgotten parcel — labelled “Spiders and Scorpions” — was found on Thursday after a 31-year-old woman disembarked from the train but forgot to take it, federal police in Stuttgart said.
Police officers met the train at the station in the town of Thuebingen and opened the parcel. The owner came and collected her spiders that same day.
According to Stuttgart police, contacted by AFP, the incident did not disrupt rail traffic and the distracted passenger will not face charges.
This is not the first time that tarantulas, which are not native to central Europe, have turned up in surprising places in Germany and surrounding regions.
In 2018 a man in North Rhine-Westphalia reportedly discovered one when he opened up his mailbox.
A few years prior, a couple of Munich police officers found one in Olympic Park and collected it in a Maß beer glass.
The biggest, and more recent, tarantula news, however, comes from the Cologne Bonn airport where customs officials seized a reported 1,500 of the large arachnids that were hidden in chocolate sponge cake boxes.
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