Man killed, eaten by menagerie

Pet spider kills its owner

From ALLAN HALL
in Berlin

A MAN who lived in his own ?zoo? of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider ? then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.

Police broke in to Mark Voegel?s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard called Helmut and several thousand termites had gorged on his body.

Neighbours alerted police after becoming alarmed by the stink.

And horrified officers were met by a nightmare scene.

A police spokesman said: ?It was like a horror movie. His corpse was over the sofa.

?Giant webs draped him, spiders were all over him. They were coming out of his nose and his mouth.

?There was everything there one could imagine in the world of reptiles.

?Larger pieces of flesh torn off by the lizards were scooped up and taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.?

Loner Voegel, 30, never invited people back to his ?jungle? home, a small apartment in the German city of Dortmund.

Police described it as a cross between a botanical garden and the butterfly breeding ground in the serial killer movie The Silence Of The Lambs.

One tarantula had built a nest the size of a swallow?s in a corner of the ceiling.

Voegel also had a boa constrictor and several poisonous frogs from South America.

Spider expert and animal cruelty officer Gabi Bayer said he kept creatures ?that should never be allowed in a private home?.

She said: ?He had spiders so aggressive they are the equivalent of a pit-bull in the animal world.?

The reptiles were allowed to roam free in the flat.

The heating elements on two tanks containing spiders and their termite snacks had exploded and dislodged the metal tops allowing them to escape.

Voegel is thought to have been dead for between seven and 14 days.

A post-mortem will be carried out in the next few days. But authorities believe Bettina alone was responsible for Voegel?s death.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html

Whoa. Rad.

That's a very Germany thing to happen...

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Awesome.

Now then, have you already nominated him for a Darwin Award, or should I?

Thats like super cool

Thank God it happened. He was in the middle of a process to cross breed spiders and pit-bulls. Lord only knows what kind of havok his "Spuds McKillers" would have wreaked upon the world.

The only way that would have been cooler is if the police found him like that while Slayer was playing in the backround. So metal.

Sucks to be him! YEEEEUCK!

Man that is great

This looks like Vendetta's work

Nice use of the word "menagarie." I fuckin' love that word.

I agree.

It would have been cool if the spiders escaped and reeked havoc on the tenants of the apartment. It would have been even better if Jeff Daniels was living in that apartment as well

Arachnaphobia anyone?

Spiders, spiders burning bright..
in the apartments of the night..
what immortal hand or eye
could stop thy fearful symmetry.

Now your just making shit up.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa! Fuck Yeah! That's like this dream I had, but I hadn't been killed and eaten yet. What happens when one dies of a black widow bite? In their last moments that is. Do they convulse? Or do they just fall asleep. This story would make an excellent short film.

but she looks so harmless...

This happens a lot with the elderly and their cats actually. Live alone, die, no one notices and no one feeds the cats so the cats eat them to stay alive. Happened to an aunt of mine.

Oh man, that is realy nasty. Ugh. Like, really gross. It's like that "got milk" ad when the cats terrorize the woman when she tries to give them powdered milk.

She gave him puppies!