Here's life imitating the campy horror movie Arachnophobia:
Mark Voegel, 30, was found dead in his Dortmund, Germany apartment. His body was draped in spider webs and more than 200 spiders, several snakes, thousands of termites, and a gecko were feasting on his corpse. [...]
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.”
The spiders and termites managed to escape when the heating elements exploded and opened the lids to their tanks.
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he wsa surely eating the insects around the body, but no way he "tore off larger pieces of flesh"
I'm from germany, and I did not hear that in our news so I searched the web for a german speaking version... and there seames to be none.
I tracked this info down to a british website of the questionable newspaper "The Sun":
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004092008,00.html
You can google the story in almost any language - except for german.
And everything you find bases on stories from UK.
is this a hoax made up by ALLAN HALL from The Sun? Or are german newspapers not interested in people eaten by spiders?
And: geckos don't feast on rotten bodies.
Sounds like those animals were kept in different tanks and that the heating elements exploded all at the same time? Doesn't sound logically.
It was reported on february 27th, 2004. You'll have to do a search on the archives for this one.