diff --git a/scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py b/scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py
index f63364ac9..6e28cc47d 100644
--- a/scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py
+++ b/scrapy/command/commands/crawl.py
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
         ScrapyCommand.add_options(self, parser)
         parser.add_option("-n", "--nofollow", dest="nofollow", action="store_true", \
             help="don't follow links (for use with URLs only)")
-        parser.add_option("-c", "--callback", dest="callback", action="store", \
-            help="use the provided callback for starting to crawl the given url")
 
     def process_options(self, args, opts):
         ScrapyCommand.process_options(self, args, opts)
@@ -30,32 +28,4 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
             settings.overrides['CRAWLSPIDER_FOLLOW_LINKS'] = False
 
     def run(self, args, opts):
-        if opts.callback:
-            requests = []
-            for a in args:
-                if is_url(a):
-                    spider = spiders.fromurl(a)
-                    urls = [a]
-                else:
-                    spider = spiders.fromdomain(a)
-                    urls = spider.start_urls if hasattr(spider.start_urls, \
-                        '__iter__') else [spider.start_urls]
-
-                if spider:
-                    if hasattr(spider, opts.callback):
-                        requests.extend(Request(url=url, callback=getattr(spider, \
-                            opts.callback)) for url in urls)
-                    else:
-                        log.msg('Callback %s doesnt exist in spider %s' % \
-                            (opts.callback, spider.domain_name), log.ERROR)
-                else:
-                    log.msg('Cannot find spider for %s' % a, log.ERROR)
-
-            if requests:
-                args = requests
-            else:
-                log.msg('Cannot create any requests with the provided arguments', \
-                    log.ERROR)
-                return
-
         scrapymanager.runonce(*args)