[High warning rating for those scared of spiders]
If my warning about camels wasn't enough, the following will make your skin creep.
Mark Voegel, resident of Dortmund, was one of those people who just loved keeping the more exotic type of animal. He had a collection that would have done a zoo proud. Which would have been fine, except that his pet black widow spider, Bettina, bit him. Fatally.
Now Mark was a bit of a loner (possibly no surprise there then). So his body went undetected for two weeks. Over which time he was gradually consumed by his collection of over 200 spiders, a gecko (called Helmut), numerous snakes, and finally several thousand termites which escaped from their tank.
A police spokesman said "It was like a horror movie. Giant webs were draped over him - spiders were all over him. They were coming out of his nose and his mouth. 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."
I have heard that people become like their pets. In this case he became part of his pets.
1 comment:
ooooh i love that story. didn't think that black widow bites were usually fatal to adult humanoids tho.
guess it amde a change to the usaul decomposed body and blow fly infestation tho, and makes for a much better screenplay :)
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