A German woman tried to get rid of her spider problem by setting her garbage on fire with a can of hair spray and a cigarette lighter, but ended up setting her house on fire instead. According to police in the western town of Zuelpich, they said that when the aerosol failed to finish them off, the 34-year-old woman tried to burn them with the lighter but set the area she had just sprayed on fire.

Three men set fire to their car while trying to steal fuel from a New Zealand farm on Monday. Police say the men siphoned diesel into a petrol-driven vehicle. When their car would not start, they examined the fuel pipe using a cigarette lighter, Reuters reports.

A new "talking" wine label informs drinkers on all the details behind its bottle contents. The label can tell Italian consumers everything about a particular bottle, from its production history to the kind of food it should accompany.

According to AOL News, a man is suing a general contractor and a coal company, accusing them of negligence after he was severely burned when a portable toilet exploded when he sat down and lit a cigarette. John Jenkins, 53, and his wife, Ramona Jenkins, 35, of Brave, Pa. , filed the suit Tuesday in county circuit court seeking $10 million in damages from Chisler Inc. and Eastern Associated Coal Corp.

South African zoo workers are working to find a way for their star chimpanzee to quit smoking. Charlie, a grown male chimp at the Bloemfontein Zoo, has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them. Zoo officials blame the habit on its visitors, stating the chimp probably picked up the habit after mimicking the humans he saw daily. "Baby chimps pick up habits by mimicking adults and we think he started mimicking smokers at his enclosure which probably led to smokers throwing him cigarettes," says zoo spokesman Daryl Barnes. Charlie is already showing the signs of a true nicotine addict. "He even acts like a naughty schoolboy by hiding the cigarette when staff approach the area," Barnes said, adding that the zoo was determined to help him quit.