- BERLIN -- Spiderman Mark
Voegel became a gruesome feast for the creepy-crawlies he loved.
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- They devoured his body after he got a lethal bite from
his favourite pet Bettina - a deadly Black Widow.
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- More than 200 spiders, several snakes, a gecko called
Helmut and several thousand termites gorged on their former master for
days.
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- Police who were called in after neighbours complained
about the smell said it was "like a scene from a horror movie".
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- They found the remains of 30-year-old loner Voegel draped
across a sofa, covered in giant cobwebs.
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- "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.
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- "There were open cages and terrariums everywhere
- all bathed in a weird green light. It was horrible."
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- 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.
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- Local expert Gabi Bayer said Voegel should never have
been allowed to keep many of his pets.
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- She added: "Some of his spiders are so aggressive
they're the equivalent of the pit-bull in the animal world."
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- Comment
- From Aushadi
- 2-28-4
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- Dear Jeff,
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- If you wish, perhaps you could enter this comment after
the spider story. I would like to see what some other, at least halfway-intelligent,
people think.
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- Granted, this isn't the most momentous or profound story
of the day, but Excuuse Me! I just cannot believe the preposterous dumb-ness
of this story.
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- First of all, assuming that Mark WAS bitten by a Black
Widow, the bite would not have been instantaneously fatal or incapacitating.
He should have had time to "call 911", or whatever emergency
service I presume they have in a progressive country such as Germany.
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- Where did the "Giant Cobwebs" come from???
Giant Spiders!!?
- Anyway, what would be the point!! He's already dead!
- webs are for capturing live prey, not immobilizing the dead!
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- I am no entymologist, (would one please log-on to this
issue?!), but as far as I know, (having been a victim, myself!), spiders
do not take hunks of flesh, i.e., they do not "eat" - (no teeth.
jaw-structure, etc). They suck fluids. Dead things, incl. humans, do
not have fluids to suck.
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- The man is stated to have have had ONE Gecko. I have
worked with Geckos, and I have been bitten by Geckos. It IS a nasty bite
- they have Very sharp teeth! but it is not a bite which rips the flesh
off!! They do not have the strength to do that; their jaws are not exactly
made to the scale or design of a croc! They take on things which they
can eat=swallow whole: bugs, smaller lizards, etc...
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- ONE Gecko, but in the story the cops refer to "lizardS"
(Plural...)
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- "...OPEN cages and terrariums everywhere(!!!)..."
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- HOOOW DID THEY GET OPEN??!!
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- Did the poor, oppressed captives somehow come to realize
that their cruel Master/jailer had bitten the dust, and now, if they didn't
break out, they would all starve??
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- Did all the spiders, and such, collectively heave in
unison against the tops of their cages and terrariums to fling open those
covers, (which would be at least thousands of times heavier than their
own bodyweight?!), inspired perhaps, by an overwhelming desire to finally
take out their revenge directly against the human-tyrant, (or what was
left of him)? Or did the lizard(s) get out first, and then come to the
aid of their weaker, arachnid-fellow-captives?
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- Sorry, but I find it beyond ridiculous...
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- Thanks for "listening"...
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- Aushadi
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- BTW, since when did termites become "flesh-eaters"!
Tens of millions of years of evolution to produce a symbiotic relationshsip
w/bacteria in their guts capable of digesting cellulose, and at their first
chance, they go ATKINS!
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