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[leighblack]

Also, definitely do NOT read this story, Rory. This is now #1 on my list of ways I do not want to die.

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[stardiver.livejournal.com]

ahhhhhhhhhhhh! ::::::shudders:::::::

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

No shit. At least I know my dog won't eat me.

[praguematic.livejournal.com]

Ew ew EW!

Skum found a black widow out by the garage a few days ago. I decided not to keep it as a pet and gassed the shit out of it with spray.

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

Good choice.

[dazeebean.livejournal.com]

HOLYFUCKHOLYFUCKHOLYFUCKHOLYFUCKHOLYFUCK

Thank god I just had a ginger ale and not like a huge meal...cyberhurl...gjhasidkfkhzxncsdgjweritupew

[auroram.livejournal.com]

crapcrapcrapSQUICK. Okay, posting my name on that is the same as shouting DON'T LOOK DOWN. How could I not look?

Fortunately, I had enough control to take one look at the picture, click it off, and then shudder and jerk and mutter to myself in my chair as I recovered.

Is it gullibility or curiosity, do you think? Probably both.

Glad to hear Riley's better.

[karmalaa.livejournal.com]

I laugh every time I see that icon of New York. :X

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

Heh heh. You'd discovered my cunning plan.

The article is much worse than you can ever imagine. Seriously.

Thanks. Riley is pretty glad too.

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

I know. I may delete it from my icons.

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

*may NEVER delete it

Urg. Me no type good.

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

How do you think I felt when they were talking about it on the radio this morning?? BLURG!!!

[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

I second that statement. :D

[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

http://www.classicalvalues.com/

Scroll down to "Repetitively Redebunking the repetitively recycled
by Eric"

According to the Wiki entry, the Sun is the largest English newspaper in the world, and while it has a reputation for sensationalism, I don't think making up stories and then repeating them as new three years later constitutes sensationalism. It's more on the level of Weekly World News.

Blogger Steven Lloyd actually remembered the story, so he dug into its history and credibility. Apparently it is old, but the Sun keeps running it as new and it keeps getting recirculated, no matter how many times it's disproved:

Members of the forum searched all over the internet and could not find any instances or records of a German man, "Mark Voegel" or "Mark Vogel" or "Mark Vögel" ever having been killed. Nor anybody having been killed by a spider or spiders and/or eaten by reptiles.

The only record of this having ever happend is in the British Sun.co.uk and the Mirror. If this had happened, surely there would be a German story about it?

The Sun internet address/URL has the code 20040920 which is safe to assume is 2004-09-20, The Mirror's article is dated 8-28-4, or 28th August 2004

This is yet more evidence of media corporations trying to latch onto internet memes without filtering them or checking them for facts first, even if the story was factual (which there is no evidence for!) it is still 3 years old and News is presenting it as current.