{"id":576,"date":"2026-10-13T13:12:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=576"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:13:15","slug":"bali-tourist-burns-villa-smoking-out-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"HE TRIED TO SMOKE OUT A SPIDER \u2014 AND TORCHED A $160,000 BALI VILLA! | Nepal tourist lit paper in a Kuta bathroom; wind carried the fire onto a thatched roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worst pest-control tip of 2026 just walked out of Bali. A tourist trying to smoke a spider out of his villa bathroom burned the <strong>$160,000<\/strong> luxury property to the ground, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/news\/offbeat\/bali-tourist-burns-160000-luxury-villa-to-the-ground-trying-to-scare-away-spider-c-23010160\">PerthNow<\/a> reported Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gaorap Rana<\/strong>, 45, from Nepal, spotted the spider and its web in a corner of the bathroom at his villa in <strong>Kuta<\/strong>. His plan: light a piece of paper to scare it off. Badung police say he set the paper alight, left the bathroom for another room \u2014 and strong winds carried the burning paper onto the villa\u2019s <strong>alang-alang grass thatched roof<\/strong>, which went up fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter burning the paper, the victim left the bathroom and went to the work room,\u201d Badung police spokesperson <strong>Ipda Ni Nyoman Yuni Eltari<\/strong> said, per The Bali Sun via PerthNow. \u201cThe burning paper was apparently carried by strong winds and caught the thatched roof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and locals knocked the blaze down. The villa and its contents were ruined. Rana walked away unhurt; no injuries, no damage to neighboring homes. The spider species? Still a mystery. Whether Rana faces further consequences? Also not confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Translation: next time, call an exterminator \u2014 not a match.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perthnow.com.au\/news\/offbeat\/bali-tourist-burns-160000-luxury-villa-to-the-ground-trying-to-scare-away-spider-c-23010160\">PerthNow \u2014 Bali tourist burns $160,000 luxury villa trying to scare away spider (Oct. 13, 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal tourist lit paper in a Kuta bathroom; wind carried the fire onto a thatched roof<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-bali-spider-villa-1013.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}