eBay: 40-foot-tall inflatable hockey-playing spider

The perfect Halloween gift?

Giant Inflatable Spider used as on-ice mascot for CHL professional Hockey games. This mascot was supposed to be part of the Topeka Tarantulas pre-game show. The hockey team only lasted one season, skipped town and left us with bills and a giant spider. The spider only saw the ice one time.

This spider is huge! It is 40' tall, 53' wide and 55' deep. If you look closely you will see one of our employees standing next to it so you get a good indication on how big this is. Comes with seperate inflatable hockey stick which can be added to the arms and two blowers. This item is being offered by the management of the Kansas Expocentre, Topeka Kansas. Reserve is very low. New inflatable mascots this size run $15K

Awesome -- insane, but awesome

This is even cooler than it'd have been on Monday.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- A man got a prison term longer than prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed to -- all because of Larry Bird.

The lawyers reached a plea agreement Tuesday for a 30-year term for a man accused of shooting with an intent to kill and robbery. But Eric James Torpy wanted his prison term to match Bird's jersey number 33.

"He said if he was going to go down, he was going to go down in Larry Bird's jersey," Oklahoma County District Judge Ray Elliott said Wednesday. "We accommodated his request and he was just as happy as he could be.

Also, note NUFFLErs: Chefs game bumped up to Friday night for hurricane-evasion purposes. Great googily-moogily.