14 DAY TRIAL // A couple living in East Sussex, UK, swears to it that, this past August 27, they found a dead spider floating inside a bottle of Coke. What's more, they maintain that the creepy crawler was already inside the bottle when they opened it.
If 26-year-old Amanda Barr and 28-year-old Steve Knight are telling the truth, this means that the soda's manufacturer, US-based The Coca-Cola Company, has some serious explaining to do.
According to Metro, the 3-liter bottle inside which the couple claims to have found the spider was purchased by Amanda Barr from a local store. At a first glance, the woman failed to figure out that something was seriously off.
Hence, she brought the bottle back home with her. It was her partner, Steve Knight, who opened it and found the spider after pouring soda in two glasses, one for himself and one for Amanda, the same source informs.
While inside the bottle, the spider made sure to lie low so as not to be discovered. However, once inside the glass, it made its way to the surface, much like a stealth submarine, and managed to scare the life out of the couple.
“Steve came back from the kitchen with two glasses and said to me that I probably wouldn’t want to drink it. I had a look in my glass, and I couldn’t believe it – there was a huge spider floating in it. Heaven knows where it came from – it doesn’t look like any British spider I’ve ever seen.”
“There’s no way that spider could have come from anywhere but inside the bottle. We store our glasses upside down, and that was the first pouring from the bottle,” 26-year-old Amanda Barr told the press in an interview concerning this incident.
By the looks of it, the couple did not take long to alert The Coca-Cola Company about their find. The soda's manufacturer promised to investigate the incident, and to get back to them as soon as possible. The Coca-Cola Company has not yet issued an official apology.
“We can understand the distress this incident must have caused. That’s why we have arranged to collect the bottle and spider from her so that we can investigate thoroughly this complaint. We will know more once we have received the bottle back from Ms. Barr and can conduct the necessary tests on its contents,” the company reportedly said in a statement.
Talking to the press, a spokesperson for The Coca-Cola Company explained that, although not downright impossible, it was highly unlikely for a spider to somehow crawl inside a bottle of soda and remain there long enough to make it on supermarket shelves.
“These particular plastic bottles are produced in a machine called a ‘blow-fill machine.’ This blows the bottles into shape and then fills them immediately in a clean and secure environment at speeds of 13,000 bottles an hour,” the spokesperson said. Furthermore, “We believe it is very unlikely that anything could have found its way inadvertently into products made on this particular machine.”