{"id":748,"date":"2004-02-27T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T12:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/748"},"modified":"2004-02-27T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2004-02-27T12:21:56","slug":"creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/748","title":{"rendered":"Creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today’s Sun newspaper<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Pet spider kills its owner<\/b><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Neighbours alerted police after becoming alarmed by the stink.<\/p>\n

And horrified officers were met by a nightmare scene.<\/p>\n

A police spokesman said: ?It was like a horror movie. His corpse was over the sofa.<\/p>\n

?Giant webs draped him, spiders were all over him. They were coming out of his nose and his mouth.<\/p>\n

?There was everything there one could imagine in the world of reptiles.<\/p>\n

?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.?<\/p>\n

Loner Voegel, 30, never invited people back to his ?jungle? home, a small apartment in the German city of Dortmund. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

One tarantula had built a nest the size of a swallow?s in a corner of the ceiling.<\/p>\n

Voegel also had a boa constrictor and several poisonous frogs from South America.<\/p>\n

Spider expert and animal cruelty officer Gabi Bayer said he kept creatures ?that should never be allowed in a private home?.<\/p>\n

She said: ?He had spiders so aggressive they are the equivalent of a pit-bull in the animal world.?<\/p>\n

The reptiles were allowed to roam free in the flat.<\/p>\n

The heating elements on two tanks containing spiders and their termite snacks had exploded and dislodged the metal tops allowing them to escape.<\/p>\n

Voegel is thought to have been dead for between seven and 14 days.<\/p>\n

A post-mortem will be carried out in the next few days. But authorities believe Bettina alone was responsible for Voegel?s death.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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