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 His friend said Wansadej asked him for some water to clean the centipede off, then popped it in his mouth 

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Wansadej Kongkul, 39, a grounds keeper at a high school in Khon Kaen city, 340 kilometres north-east of Bangkok, allegedly ate the centipede Monday after the insect bit him on the finger while he was cutting grass, Police Captain Suphatannachai Naphasakul said.

"His friend said Wansadej asked him for some water to clean the centipede off, then popped it in his mouth," Suphatannachai said.

"After 20 minutes, Wansadej threw up, so his friend made him lie down in a shed. When he came back in two hours Wasadej was a greenish colour and dead," the police officer said by telephone.

Both men had been drinking before the incident. "We are performing an autopsy to confirm whether it was the centipede that killed him," Suphatannachai said.

Centipedes are believed to have medicinal value among some Thais and Thai-Chinese. A medicinal product, once popular, is rice wine with a dead centipede inside, believed to be a sexual stimulant and immunity enhancer.Authors: Somchai Kwankijswet and Peter Janssen

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Sun May 26 11:08:34 SAST 2013 ::

Sep 18, 2012

Pee-Pee-Liyasha

if the centepede in the bottle is the one that killed him......well it looks like 'inkunkuma' as we call it in isiZulu. when working in the garden we were sternly warned about this centepede as it might crawl up our legs, and into the butt, making it way inside and eating intastines etc........so when we saw it, we killed it, cause it moves quick that the normal black centepede.....
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Sep 18, 2012

Mbelewolwazi

Akuyo inkunkuma yinkume. yikho kuthiwa,"uyoze ulutheze olunenkume."
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Sep 18, 2012

Ayobas

This guy o b.one maspa, may his soul rest in peace, why commit such thing tota mara?
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Sep 19, 2012

Maqhankqa

Mbelewolwazi:
I like the correction!
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