Spider Blamed In Michigan Crash: Driver ‘Lost His Man Card Bigly‘

Social media users were both sympathetic and snarky to a man police said was so distracted by a spider Sunday morning that he veered off a Michigan road, crashing into into a brushy ditch before a stand of trees stopped his SUV. He wasn’t injured, unless you count his pride.

And man, did his pride ever take a drubbing from some of those commenting on a Leelanau County Sheriff’s Office Facebook post about the mishap. “Somebody just lost his man card bigly,” one person wrote — invoking, to reiterate, both the man card and the bigly card — in a comment skewering the 26-year-old driver from Grawn, Michigan. Ouch.

The sheriff’s office said on Facebook the driver was “distracted by a spider on the visor above his head” as he drove his 2005 GMC Envoy along South Grand Harbor Trail in the Cedar area around 9:40 a.m. Sunday. Officials didn’t specify the size of the spider, but some Facebook users speculated that it must have been large.

“Well done!” read on effusive post. “He saved the day and didn't allow that spider to get his female companion!!”

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Other posters were quick to blame the spider

“And the spider remains at large?” one person asked. “Hold the spider for questioning!” someone else implored.” This was good, too: “Gonna hear more about spiders causing accidents from here on out.”

Another commenter said spider-distracted driving probably “happens more than people admit.”’

“Gosh, I hope this never happens to me! You know how I am with spiders,” one person wrote, punctuating her post with the scared-face emoticon.

Photo via Leelanau County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page