I don't know just how much truth this holds as I've heard The UK Sun is a mite sensationalist (as proven by the article itself) buuuuuuuut if there's any truth to it at all.....
www.thesun.co.uk/article/...08,00.html
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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 Voegels 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 swallows 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. 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 Voegels death.
**SCREAMS**
Why on Earth would anyone in their right mind keep a pet Black Widow spider?!?!
Tell that to people who keep tarantulas
Tarantulas are not poisonous, and I hear they're actually quite docile, from a spider-freak freind of mine.
my worst nightmare, i'm arachnophobic. JESUS NOW I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT.
Geez... Thanks for posting this Dubz...
As I'm eating breakfast... And I woke up this morning to find a huge-ass Hunstman on my bed sheets, which in turn caused me to scream like a little girl and get laughed at by any family members that were around at the time... >>
Man, that's the thing about Australia.
Your animals make no @#%$ sense. You have teeny tinny little bears, hairy jumping dinosaurs, and F**KING HUGE-ASS CAT-SIZED SPIDERS.
Sounds like one of those gross-out urban legends. Maybe something you'd hear on Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
Do I believe it? Not sure. Sounds plausible. It's not outside the bounds of logic. I suppose it's like the Tootsie-pop licking conundrum--the world may never know.
This guy IS a mentaly retarded. Come one people A BLACKWIDOW SPIDER AND POINES SNAKES?! IN YOUR HOUSE?! iM WITH Hyper on this one.*Screams and Pass out due to air lost*
...um, ewwwwwwwwww? holy crap, that's just freaky (assuming it's true).
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And I woke up this morning to find a huge-ass Hunstman on my bed sheets, which in turn caused me to scream like a little girl and get laughed at by any family members that were around at the time... >>
A quick look on Google seems to suggest that any little girl-like screaming would be more than justified. 
I friggin' hate spiders.
Given that was from The Sun, he probably owned 3 spiders and half a snake, who bit off one of his fingers.
Seriously.
man that's cool except the dude died but its still freaking cool
Wow. o.o
If you think about it, the guy had it coming, really.
It was probably another masturbation accident.
"It was probably another masturbation accident."
Black widow masturbation, yeah~!
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Gyser: HAHA! No, really, hell no I'd scream too.
But what is it with people down there. Though the source is a tad dubious, if it really happened like that...that sucks cause this guys just helped spiders take one step closer to figuring out how our brains work -.-....
Hairy Jumping dinosaurs XD
