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| 2007-08-30 |
| "Reclusive"? Ya don't say? A reclusive German man who lived in a house filled with insects & reptiles was found dead in his home - killed by his pet black widow spider, Bettina. Black widow spiders. Ya just can't trust 'em... Police found Mark Voegel, 30, in his apartment partially eaten by his pet spiders, several snakes, lizards and thousands of termites, Sun.co.uk reported. Ewww...whaddya say we skip lunch today, Muldoon? Voegel, is thought to have been dead for between seven and 14 days before neighbours alerted police after becoming alarmed by the smell from his apartment. Yeah. The smell. Time to call the cops when ya smell the smell... Spider expert and animal cruelty officer Gabi Bayer said he kept creatures “that should never be allowed in a private home” Well I'll bet he's learned his lesson... “He had spiders so aggressive they are the equivalent of a pit-bull in the animal world” she said, according to Bizzare Magazine, UK. ...and they will bite your ass off! 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." Should I call the coroner, sarge? Oh, please do. And tell him to bring the Orkin Man with him. Voegel has been described as a loner who never invited people back to his strange home Really? A "quiet man" too, I'll bet... - a small apartment in the German city of Dortmund - which 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. Might wanna...dig up his yard maybe? One tarantula had built a nest the size of a swallow’s in a corner of the ceiling, according to the Sun. He also owned a boa constrictor and several poisonous frogs from South America, alongside his 200 spiders, several snakes, and a gecko lizard called Helmut. I wonder if he had any roach or mice problems? Or nosy neighbors? As to the bite that killed him, the neurotoxic venom of a Black Widow spider is believed to be 15 times more potent than that of a rattlesnake and is more lethal than the venom of cobras and coral snakes. Despite the deadliness of the venom - even prior to the development of antivenin - only 5% of reported bites resulted in fatalities, as the volume of actual venom injected by the spider is very low. Unless, of course, two hundred of them bite you at once... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 Were the Guam students in Milwaukee, JosephM, or had Mr. Dahmer at one time stayed on Guam? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-08-30 20:13 |
| #5 D *** ng it, Milwaukee's JEFFREY DAHMER could claim it was the Chocolate Factory down the street, not his cooking and boiling of victims he killed, for the bad or sickly sweet odors. BTW, I'm not convinced Milwaukee PD, etal. found all of Dahmer's victims yet. *I wonder how Guam students felt when they learned they potentially lived very close to such a killer, that some may had even met him!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-08-30 19:49 |
| #4 good question [bloody pda does no exclamation marks, but trust me, its there] |
| Posted by: driveby lurker 2007-08-30 19:45 |
| #3 What I want to know, is how did they know the names of the pets? Did they have little ID tags, or did the guy have signs somewhere? |
| Posted by: Rambler 2007-08-30 18:25 |
| #2 "...gecko lizard called Helmut." But did he save the much-touted 15% in 15 minutes????? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-08-30 16:57 |
| #1 ...and they will bite your ass off! As always, superb inline, tu3031! and a gecko lizard called Helmut. What! No prawn named "Simon"? Something tells me the gecko was found cowering in a corner of his terrarium mumbling over and over about how, "They're all out to get me!". |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-08-30 16:56 |