The Airbnb Brown Recluse Lawsuit Goes to the Texas Supreme Court

• 1:40Brown recluse spiders are all over Austin, Texas
• 2:25Tim jokes the news footage is so dramatic it seems designed to manipulate—warns viewers some images are disturbing because they're of poor people
• 3:43The caretaker was 65 years old, which Tim finds depressing—a man that age working as an Airbnb caretaker like Jack Torrance in The Shining
• 4:40The caretaker sued the homeowner Homer Hill for not warning him of the spider danger
• 5:01Texas Supreme Court had to decide whether a landowner has a duty to protect renters from indoor bites by native animals
• 5:35The Airbnb property looks like a youth detention facility on the side of the highway
• 6:00Texas Supreme Court sided with the homeowner, essentially telling the caretaker the spiders were there before him
• 6:14Homeowner argued any judgment against him would be detrimental to anyone operating a property in Hill Country

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