Man Lives With 200 Pet Spiders, Snakes, And Other Nasties; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Oh, it gets worse than what you're imagining. I guess he wasn't around for the worst of it, but his mortuary make-up artist will definitely pay the price.

Light to moderate arachnophobia warning. Also, an "it's old" warning. It's from February. But I never heard of it before.

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.

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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.

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“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.”

He had termites as pets? Uhhh... termites need to be bred, I guess? Big demand for that, I'm reckoning?

I mean, a black widow spider I can understand. You can actually pet a black widow. (Once.)

Thanks, I guess, to MichaelF.

posted by Ace at 03:07 PM

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