Police in Australia were called to a home to investigate domestic violence, but when they arrived all they found was a man and a spider. 
 
 The Harbourside Local Area Command of the New South Wales Police Force received numerous calls early Saturday morning from neighbors concerned about domestic violence at a residence in Wollstonecraft, Australia, police spokesman Dean Lindley told ABC News today. 
 
 "We had numerous calls to our emergency number stating that a woman could be heard screaming with a man yelling, 'I'm going to kill you, die, die,' with what sounded like furniture being overturned and or a hitting sound," Lindley said. 
 
 Police showed up at the 32-year-old man’s house within three minutes, Lindley said, and asked him where his wife or partner was. After some questioning, the man became "sheepish" and admitted he was just trying to kill a spider, Lindley wrote in a post on the police force's Facebook page, where he also shared the transcript of the conversation. 
 
 "It quickly turned to embarrassment when he realized he would have to admit to the screaming like a girl thing," Lindley said. 
 
 After checking out the home to make sure there was no one else there, Lindley said police left. 
 
 "After a can of Mortein, I'm not so sad to report the spider did not make it," Lindley said. "I asked one of the probationary constables fresh from the academy to perform CPR and heart compressions, but of course he carried on like a big girl and refused. It's hard to get good help these days." ||||| Amsterdam police kick in opera singer’s door thinking he’s screaming 
 
 Police officers were surprised early Tuesday morning when they kicked in the door of an Amsterdam man they thought was in trouble and shouting, only to discover he was actually trying to sing along with an opera recording. The man was enjoying his music wearing headphones, and did not notice the police at his door. 
 
 The police were responding to an emergency call placed by a neighbor, who suspected the man was the victim of a violent domestic crime. The tipster told the 1-1-2 dispatcher he “heard a terrifying scream from the house,” police said on Facebook. 
 
 When police from the Amsterdam Zuid-Buitenveldert district arrived on the scene, they also heard screams from inside the home. The resident did not come to the door until after officers kicked it in, police said. He was alone inside at the time. 
 
 “In the end, the [police] colleagues, the tipster (worried neighbors) and the resident had a real laugh about the incident,” police said. The case was referred to the department’s legal affairs division.
– Cringe: Police in Amsterdam responding to what UPI terms "screams of agony" kicked in a home's door, only to find the resident alone and perfectly fine. Turns out the man was listening to opera, with headphones on, and had been trying to sing along, reports NL Times. In a Facebook post translated from the Dutch as "Nocturnal Nightingale!," police explain that early Tuesday evening a neighbor who heard "terrifying screams" phoned in a report of potential domestic violence. The man wasn't aware of police presence until the door had been pummeled. "In the end, the [police] colleagues, the tipster (worried neighbors) and the resident had a real laugh about the incident," per police. The case recalls one in the same vein from November, in which New South Wales Police in Australia were summoned to an apartment over domestic violence concerns; they found an "out-of-breath ... flushed" 32-year-old man who said he lived alone and was trying to kill a spider. When asked about the woman's screams that had reportedly been heard, he replied, "Yeah, sorry, that was me; I really, really hate spiders." (An even weirder opera story also made headlines.)