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EATEN BY HIS PET SPIDERS: Cops' macabre find in flat
Daily Mirror (UK) ^
| 2.27.04
Posted on 02/27/2004 1:43:31 PM PST by ambrose
EATEN BY HIS PET SPIDERS
Feb 27 2004
Cops' macabre find in flat
From Allan Hall In Berlin
SPIDERMAN Mark Voegel became a gruesome feast for the creepy-crawlies he loved.
They devoured his body after he got a lethal bite from his favourite pet Bettina - a deadly Black Widow.
More than 200 spiders, several snakes, a gecko called Helmut and several thousand termites gorged on their former master for days.
Police who were called in after neighbours complained about the smell said it was "like a scene from a horror movie".
They found the remains of 30-year-old loner Voegel draped across a sofa, covered in giant cobwebs.
"Spiders were running all over him," said a spokesman. "They were coming out of his nose and mouth. Larger pieces of flesh had been torn off by the lizards and were taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.
"There were open cages and terrariums everywhere - all bathed in a weird green light. It was horrible."
Police described Voegel's tiny apartment in the German city of Dortmund as a cross between a botanical garden and the butterfly breeding room in the serial killer movie The Silence of the Lambs.
Local expert Gabi Bayer said Voegel should never have been allowed to keep many of his pets.
She added: "Some of his spiders are so aggressive they're the equivalent of the pit-bull in the animal world."
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blackwidow; conspiracybyspider; darkshearesfault; darwinaward; geckodidit; itsacookbook; lizardsfault; murderbybugs; spider; spiderseatman; yikes; yummy
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:43:31 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: ambrose
"There were open cages and terrariums everywhere - all bathed in a weird green light. It was horrible." Creepy...who opened all of the cages...
To: ambrose
there sure have been some awfully bizarre stories coming out of Germany lately... weird.
To: ambrose
I hate it when that happens.
To: ambrose
"She added: "Some of his spiders are so aggressive they're the equivalent of the pit-bull in the animal world." WHA?????
To: ambrose
Cannibalism, and now this. Man, is Germany turning into some B-horror movie, or what?
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:47:07 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(I think; therefore, I Freep............)
To: danneskjold
Creepy...who opened all of the cages... My first thought, too.
I think it was the gecko from Geico.
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:47:54 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never let your life be directed by people who could only get government jobs.)
To: Neanderthal
Spiders are predators and therefor aggresive....
Since all of the cages were open, I wonder if this is a really strange suicide?
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:48:17 PM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: ambrose
He should have called the internet cannibal guy.
CG
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:48:25 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(No words were harmed during the production of this tagline.)
To: ambrose
Sounds like another one of those German canibalism suicide pact things. OK it's not technically canibalism.
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:48:28 PM PST
by
biblewonk
(I must try to answer all bible questions.)
What, no pictures.....
To: ambrose
Police really hate getting a call about an odor coming from the residence of someone who has not been seen in a while. Almost as bad as a domestic dispute - domestics are a lot more dangerous, but generally do not leave a smell that dry cleaning will not remove from a uniform.
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:51:15 PM PST
by
RebelBanker
(Negotiate? [BANG] Anybody else want to negotiate?)
To: Darksheare; null and void
To: ambrose
This would qualify as a Darwin award, no? I would think it would get special mention because nature was involved.
To: tiamat
Since all of the cages were open, I wonder if this is a really strange suicide? Or murder....
To: ambrose
I thought stories like this only came from Romania.
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:56:49 PM PST
by
usurper
To: mhking; Shermy
ping.
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:57:37 PM PST
by
ambrose
("John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands" - Lt. Col. Oliver North)
To: af_vet_rr
Itsy bitsy German...
let Bettina out...
Now nothing but smells...
Come out the water spout
To: ambrose
Re:
Cops' macabre find in flat Gad! Macabre? Shades of William Castle! Can "The Tingler II" be far behind?
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:58:18 PM PST
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: Servant of the 9; null and void
It's a conspiracy, the black widow widow'nated him, and the rest descended upon him in his death twitchies.
The last thing he saw was a set of fangs waving tauntingly in his face.
/ SICK joke.
WHY would ANYONE want to own a black widow, let alone TERMITES?
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posted on
02/27/2004 2:00:01 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Fortune for today: The Goldfish have it out to do you in.)
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