my kind of death

now, i'm not entirely sure exactly why i glean such pleasure from this. schadenfreude? or maybe the fact that the gecko is called Helmut...

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.

[planetsave]

that would be one nutty eulogy...