"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 swallows 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...
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!".
#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!?
. . . Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: tojo help me!
T0J0: wtf u want me to do, im on the other side of the world retard
Hitler[AoE]: fine ill clear you a path
Stalin: WTF u arsshoel! WE HAD A FoCKIN TRUCE
Hitler[AoE]: i changed my mind lol
benny-tow: haha
benny-tow: hey ur losing ur guys in africa im gonna need help in italy soon sum1
T0J0: o **** i cant help u i got my hands full
Hitler[AoE]: im 2 busy 2 help
Roosevelt: yah thats right biznitch im comin for ya
Stalin: church help me
Churchill: like u helped me before? sure ill just sit here
Stalin: dont be an arss
Churchill: dont be a commie. oops too late
Eisenhower: LOL . . .
Posted by: Mike ||
08/30/2007 06:34 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
LOL--That was hilarious! I love this bit:
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Posted by: Dar ||
08/30/2007 12:20 Comments ||
Top||
Global Warming! Pic at link.
WILLS POINT, Texas (AP) -- Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.
Officials at Lake Tawakoni State Park say the massive mosquito trap is a big attraction for some visitors, while others won't go anywhere near it.
"At first, it was so white it looked like fairyland," said Donna Garde, superintendent of the park about 45 miles east of Dallas. "Now it's filled with so many mosquitoes that it's turned a little brown. There are times you can literally hear the screech of millions of mosquitoes caught in those webs."
Spider experts say the web may have been constructed by social cobweb spiders, which work together, or could be the result of a mass dispersal in which the arachnids spin webs to spread out from one another.
"I've been hearing from entomologists from Ohio, Kansas, British Columbia -- all over the place," said Mike Quinn, an invertebrate biologist with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department who first posted photos online.
Herbert A. "Joe" Pase, a Texas Forest Service entomologist, said the massive web is very unusual.
"From what I'm hearing it could be a once-in-a-lifetime event," he said.
But John Jackman, a professor and extension entomologist for Texas A&M University, said he hears reports of similar webs every couple of years.
"There are a lot of folks that don't realize spiders do that," said Jackman, author of "A Field Guide to the Spiders and Scorpions of Texas."
"Until we get some samples sent to us, we really won't know what species of spider we're talking about," Jackman said.
Garde invited the entomologists out to the park to get a firsthand look at the giant web.
"Somebody needs to come out that's an expert. I would love to see some entomology intern come out and study this," she said.
Park rangers said they expect the web to last until fall, when the spiders will start dying off.
And if anyone wants to go in my backyard and admire the garden spider that has spun a web there... feel free, but bring a baseball bat! That sucker has a body about the size of a large chocolate-covered cherry! We think she is aiming to trap small birds...
#3
Garde invited the entomologists out to the park to get a firsthand look at the giant web.
Yeah, actually looking at the damn spiders would go along way towards identifying them. Like Yogi Berra said, "You can observe a lot just by watching."
#6
Come into my Parlour", said the Spider Donna to the Fly Entomologist
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/30/2007 16:31 Comments ||
Top||
#7
Ya gotta think that spiders and snakes hired the wrong public relations firm.
Look at what they eat. All the things we hate. Flys, mosquitoes, mice, rats and other vermin. If we didn't have almost genetically based aversions to them we'd be pinning medals on these little suckers.
A Pakistani national was sentenced to six months in prison for sexually assaulting an Oldham district nurse. Sultan Bahadur, 51, was in the UK to care for his sick mother on a three-month visa when the assault happened in October last year, UK media reported on Wednesday. The victim, a district nurse, had made several home visits to Bahadurs mothers home in the past and had previously been greeted with a handshake. However, the court heard that on this occasion, Bahadur sexually assaulted the nurse while his mother was in the next room. Bahadur pleaded not guilty to the charge but was found guilty by a jury at Manchesters Minshull Street Crown Court on Tuesday.
It was her fault - going out and caring for an elderly woman she wasn't related to, and in a house where a man was and all.
Surely she had it coming, the brazen hussy.
Anyone with *eyes* could see that.
Six months, huh? Lessee, in Euro-speak that's, um, six, carry the three, square root of five, plus an arm and an eye, time off for good behavior, time off for Islamic behavior, oh, yeah, maybe six weeks?
Posted by: Fred ||
08/30/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Well worth it. And to add insult to injury, now the state has to take care of his mother (unless they let him out early to take care of her).
One of these days people may well take the law back into their own hands because the institutions they have entrusted this function too have forgotten why they are there.
#1
Boeing's backlog is become the stuff of legend. As the aircraft manufacturer to the world, in the past year their backlog has exceeded 1,200 large aircraft, perhaps more than 1,500. This exceeds the GDP of most of the world's nations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A Pakistani national was sentenced to six months in prison for sexually assaulting an Oldham district nurse. Sultan Bahadur, 51, was in the UK to care for his sick mother on a three-month visa when the assault happened in October last year, UK media reported on Wednesday. The victim, a district nurse, had made several home visits to Bahadurs mothers home in the past and had previously been greeted with a handshake. However, the court heard that on this occasion, Bahadur sexually assaulted the nurse while his mother was in the next room. Bahadur pleaded not guilty to the charge but was found guilty by a jury at Manchesters Minshull Street Crown Court on Tuesday.
