Attack of the Mutant Killer Monster Centipede

Yesterday night we had a dramatic situation in our apartment: I was sitting on my bed when I´ve seen that something is moving really fast at the wall right beside me and it was directly heading for my blanket. Hardi came over after he heard me screaming. :o) We´ve never seen such a bug before (see picture), but I figured out that it is a house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) native to South Europe. Anyway, I begged Hardi to remove the centipede but not to kill it. He made a good job ... he catched the centipede and released it outside on the back porch.