RESTAURANT BUSTED FOR SERVING ENDANGERED TARANTULA TACOS

A restaurant in Mexico City came up with a new menu item: a blow-torched tarantula taco. The chef torches the spider until it’s blackened on both the top and the bottom, and then it’s served in a taco. The cost is 500 pesos ($27), or 50 times the price of a basic street taco. The only problem: The Mexican red rump tarantula is a protected species. The federal environmental protection agency was alerted to the situation via social media and seized four tarantula corpses that were ready to be served up. The restaurant’s menu also features other creepy-crawlies such as grasshoppers, scorpions, worms and ant eggs.
* Oh – you mean the restaurant has those thing in its food on purpose! I thought it was just the norm down there.
* How do authorities know they were red rump tarantulas if they were all blackened?
* I’d pay 500 pesos just to see big hairy spiders die in a fire, which is how it should be.
* Drug cartels leaving severed heads on roadways, illegal immigrants heading north, but Mexico’s got the red rump tarantula roasting under control. Nice job.
* There’s our wacky news band name of the week: “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, the Blow-torched Tarantulas!”