[1108] in Humor
HUMOR: Don't mess with that cockroach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Tue Oct 3 17:10:50 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 17:07:58 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 17:51:24 EDT
From: "Mark A. Herschberg" <hershey@MIT.EDU>
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From: mjduff@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 13:33:59 EDT
Cockroach Slain, Husband Badly Hurt
Reuters, Tel Aviv
An Israeli woman's fight with a stubborn cockroach put her
husband in the hospital with burns, a broken pelvis and broken ribs, the
Jerusalem Post newspaper reported yesterday.
The woman, frightened by the insect when she found it in their living
room, stepped on it, threw it in a toilet and sprayed a full can of
insecticide on it when it refused to die.
Her husband came home from work, went to the toilet and lit a
cigarette. When he threw the cigarette butt into the bowl, the insecticide
fumes ignited, "seriously burning his sensitive parts," the Post
wrote.
When paramedics were called to the home in Tel Aviv, they laughed so
hard when they learned what had happened that they dropped the
stretcher down the stairs, breaking the unidentified man's pelvis
and ribs
