Link: https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/minnesota-senate-candidate-simonetti-tarantula-sentence-1765410

Independent Minnesota US Senate candidate Marisa Simonetti, 32, has been sentenced to three months in the Hennepin County workhouse after throwing a live tarantula onto the staircase leading to her tenant's living space in Edina. She was convicted of gross misdemeanour harassment and misdemeanour domestic assault and will serve her 90-day sentence on school and work release. The court also ordered her to serve two years of probation and submit a written apology to the victim.

Simonetti's sentence comes as she campaigns for a seat in the US Senate, hoping to replace Tina Smith in the November 2026 Minnesota election. Her candidacy has drawn further attention after a video she posted of herself confronting a Girl Scout and the child's mother over selling cookies without a permit went viral, putting her own conduct under public scrutiny.

The bodycam footage of the incident is wild. She’s a complete and total piece of shit.

I shouldn't be this attracted to such crazy women but here we are

Marisa "Karen" Simonetti

duckface mugshot? instant turn off

Go on! I'm sure you can fix her!

Tarantulas aren't cheap pets. That's definitely sending a message.

I wonder why she's running as an independent. Couldn't be more qualified to be a Republican.

Wow, attacking girl scouts AND THEN POSTING THE VIDEO YOURSELF. Completely lost the plot.

I don't think that's duckface, it could just be lip filler

To each their own I guess? She has a evil look in her eyes.

also blared loud Christian music

Simonetti, a local real estate businesswoman who runs a house-buying firm

Jfc this article just gets worse and worse

AI slop thumbnail though

Poor Tarantula.

They're also incredibly delicate animals :(

lip filler mugshot? instant turn off

US Senate Candidate Who Confronted Girl Scout and Mother for Selling Cookies Without a Permit

Oh, yeah, she's in lockstep with the community on this one. Hatred of Girls Scouts crosses all lines, we can all agree on this.

fucking /s

Yup that's where the crazy hides 😍

For the curious, falling more than a few inches is often fatal due to a burst abdomen.

I watched some of the video and It kind of looks like the tarantula is picked up and put back in a terrarium by one of the officers. hope it wasn't injured.

I know they're not fucking toys. They're lovely animals too.

Oh no, poor thing

Showed the headline to a friend and asked him what he thought she did for a living.

'Realtor' was his first guess.

An evil, ugly Vulcan

She's even worse than that, she's a professional parasite. She runs a "home buying firm," which means she routinely fucks people out of an average of $50,000 per transaction. To accomplish this, she uses media (TV, billboards, print, social) to convince homeowners of a lie (they will make the same if not more money using homebuyer services than using the conventional real estate process) by telling them a truth (the transaction will be fast and they will have money in their hands in just a few days).

It's an amazing feat of leveraging human desire to absolutely fuck the dogshit out of them: they willingly believe the lie because they want the money in their hands quickly and in so doing, they get fucked out of five figures.

Tell her how much you love god and hate brown people and she'll probably give you the best lip filler job you'll ever have

Although she initially launched her political career as a Republican and lost two Hennepin County Board races in 2024, the local 3rd Congressional District GOP committee withdrew its endorsement following her 2024 arrest, stating she 'does not reflect our values'.

The GOP kicked her out for bad behavior. She's too much for the addicts and pedophile warmongers.

Really not fair to the tarantula, who asked for none of this.

Tarantula are wildly intelligent. Like, smart dog intelligent.

Smarter than some dogs.

Like, “sit”, “stay”, and “fetch me a cigarette”?! I want video of this

Her candidacy has drawn further attention after a video she posted of herself confronting a Girl Scout and the child's mother over selling cookies without a permit went viral, putting her own conduct under public scrutiny.

The tarantula thing wasn't enough?

And she’s a 32 year old landlord too.

I was wondering where the animal abuse charges were in all this.

Fun overview of that girl scout video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGFVdtoddiQ

Glad to read that this was a Senate "Candidate" and not a "Senator", though there are more than a few who are just as jackassed.

Feel kinda bad for the tarantula though.

She's perfect for US Senate except for being about 50 years too young.

Wait...does the Girl Scout organization not secure legal clearance at all for its scouts to sell? Or is she just a complete moron?

There's a whole video of this floating around on the internet. I usually don't go in for videos that look like the old Cops show, but that one is worth a watch.

The woman she was harassing was renting out the basement of the house through Airbnb because she was fleeing domestic violence.

Simonetti didn't even own the property. She was illegally subletting the basement. The cops showed up and Simonetti was so crazy that the cops weren't having it.

I love tarantulas. My first-ever job was at a pet store and I used to let a large rose-hair chill with me at the register, crawling on my shoulder or head or whatever. Watching people coming in to buy dog food and shakily throwing their money in my direction was a bonus.

For this reason I still get uneasy feelings whenever I watch Home Alone and Kevin grabs the tarantula. There's a scene after it's on Joe Pesci where you can tell it got injured during the shoot because it's limping.

Oh no poor baby :(

Never knew Tarantulas were that smart. Don't suppose you could teach them tricks?

I've only had one tarantula experience and it was at an "animal party" for kids. Snakes, lizards, etc were all there. The kids are all really calm, sitting cross legged in a circle and being really gentle with any animal they were offered.

Anyway it's tarantula time and none of the kids are biting so I immediately raised my hand. Omg, what a beautiful creature and I got to hold it 😍

you can tell it got injured during the shoot because it's limping.

Oh God that's awful. I'll have to keep an eye for it.

If recent times are any indication, people too.

Brother ew

Humans set the bar real low

Here is another article on this that I found a little bit clearer in terms of what happened. So basically her tenant asked her to fulfill a basic responsibility that landlords are supposed to handle and she had an absolute fucking meltdown? Honestly the tarantula is the tamest part of it. I hope the tarantula is okay and also that the tenant is okay, not because the tarantula was a real danger but because of every other fucking thing this woman did. Good lord.

Tarantula are wildly intelligent. Like, smart dog intelligent.

Yeah I'm gonna go ahead and call bullshit on that bullshit. There is zero chance of that being true.

Perfect for the next 50 years. They're not elected old, they just stay in office till they die, because of cronyism and corruption.

I’ve seen this too, these people are terrifying. Here’s the link to the full body cam. Get ready for a whole helping of crazy eyes

https://youtu.be/gRyjqsHNQOU

She was convicted of gross misdemeanour harassment and misdemeanour domestic assault

I guess tarantulas aren't cute enough to warrant an animal cruelty charge :(

No?

Sounds like a charmer....