Im not entirely sure where this came from because it was posted up on another forum, but it certainly smells a bit fishy how snakes and a leopard gecko gorged on his body is beyond me.

A MAN who lived in his own “zoo” of lizards and insects was fatally bitten by a pet black widow spider — then eaten by the other creepy-crawlies.
Police broke in to Mark Voegel’s apartment to find spider Bettina along with 200 others, several snakes, a gecko lizard called Helmut and several thousand termites had gorged on his body.

Neighbours alerted police after becoming alarmed by the stink.

And horrified officers were met by a nightmare scene.

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.”


Loner Voegel, 30, never invited people back to his “jungle” home, a small apartment in the German city of Dortmund.

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.

One tarantula had built a nest the size of a swallow’s in a corner of the ceiling.

Voegel also had a boa constrictor and several poisonous frogs from South America.


Spider expert and animal cruelty officer Gabi Bayer said he kept creatures “that should never be allowed in a private home”.

She said: “He had spiders so aggressive they are the equivalent of a pit-bull in the animal world.”

The reptiles were allowed to roam free in the flat.

The heating elements on two tanks containing spiders and their termite snacks had exploded and dislodged the metal tops allowing them to escape.


Voegel is thought to have been dead for between seven and 14 days.

A post-mortem will be carried out in the next few days. But authorities believe Bettina alone was responsible for Voegel’s death.

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haha the n only thing i smell is bulls**T

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I am pretty sure it is true, happened some time ago though I think.

Obviously no one can tell (unless they destroyed and dissected all the aminals) just who was eating him so the news agency has a bit of licence there.

Mason

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you obviously havnt seen those flesh eating geckos and snakes that have learnt to use a knife and fork to cut their victims into managable pieces then

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She said: “He had spiders so aggressive they are the equivalent of a pit-bull in the animal world.”


are dogs not animals these days then?

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definately not a hoax.

The Sun Online - News: Pet spider kills its owner

Mason

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yeh I thought it was true just not all the bullsh*t they said about it

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oh thats just a reporters perogative

We'd only get weekly news if they had the check each story.

Mason

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stupid "facts"...always get in the way of really good stories!

I like the part "Danger...he kept snakes" with the stock picture of a cobra when he had a common boa :P

He also kept hots, maybe not a cobra but he kept hots.

I doubt they listed his whole collection.

Mason

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