Don't make friends with the locals!
Feb 27th 2004, 3:40 pm
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Don't make friends with the locals!
ie. arachnids
Just found this article... don't get too close to those creepy crawlies or you could end up like this poor bloke.
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."
Just found this article... don't get too close to those creepy crawlies or you could end up like this poor bloke.
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."
Feb 27th 2004, 3:50 pm
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Well thats done it!!...no sleep for me tonite at all now..
its 3.20am..i just put my jet lagged grandaughter to bed and came here to wind down before bed...... no chance now....LOL :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:
its 3.20am..i just put my jet lagged grandaughter to bed and came here to wind down before bed...... no chance now....LOL :scared: :scared: :scared: :scared:
Feb 27th 2004, 3:57 pm
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Re: Don't make friends with the locals!
Originally posted by Larissa
ie. arachnids
Just found this article... don't get too close to those creepy crawlies or you could end up like this poor bloke.
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."
ie. arachnids
Just found this article... don't get too close to those creepy crawlies or you could end up like this poor bloke.
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."
Feb 27th 2004, 4:02 pm
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hahahahahahahahahaha :scared: it could be contagious!
:scared: it could be contagious!
Feb 27th 2004, 4:07 pm
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eeek don't like spiders ewww:scared:
Feb 27th 2004, 5:51 pm
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Arrggghhhh, Dortmund!!!
I think that's not even to far from here!!!
Well, at least there's no Black Widow's and Tarantula's in Oz!!
Or here in the wild of course!
I think that's not even to far from here!!!
Well, at least there's no Black Widow's and Tarantula's in Oz!!
Or here in the wild of course!
Feb 27th 2004, 5:53 pm
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i read this today in the currant bun.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html
gruesome. :scared:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html
gruesome. :scared:
Feb 27th 2004, 9:19 pm
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Originally posted by Simone82
Arrggghhhh, Dortmund!!!
I think that's not even to far from here!!!
Well, at least there's no Black Widow's and Tarantula's in Oz!!
Or here in the wild of course!
Arrggghhhh, Dortmund!!!
I think that's not even to far from here!!!
Well, at least there's no Black Widow's and Tarantula's in Oz!!
Or here in the wild of course!
MM
Feb 28th 2004, 12:03 pm
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Originally posted by mr mover
the Redback ,is the Black widows closest relative, and the bird eating spiders of Queens land are as big as a Tarantula:scared: ..as far as that story goes , "you dont let the truth ,get in the way of a good story"........... MM
the Redback ,is the Black widows closest relative, and the bird eating spiders of Queens land are as big as a Tarantula:scared: ..as far as that story goes , "you dont let the truth ,get in the way of a good story"...........
MM
Feb 28th 2004, 12:06 pm
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yuk! Sent a shiver down my spine.
