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Coffeeprincess
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 Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject: Flying cockroaches in Seoul? |
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Last night I came home to find what looked like a flying cockroach about the size of my thumb in my 3rd floor, one-room villa. Or at least that's what it looked like to me. It couldn't exactly fly, but it had wings and was flitting around. Do they have flying cockroaches here?
I ended up trapping it in a plastic baggie, but didn't kill it. I woke up this morning and it was still alive! What the hell is it?  |
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The Den
Joined: 26 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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It's a flying cockroach. When you eventually kill it, gooey white stuff will come out of it. This might contain eggs so you do not want to spread it around. Quite filthy creatures. Glad they do not have those where I live. Good luck.  |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Location: James Joyce's pants
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it was a cicada? |
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Stevie_B
Joined: 14 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Flying cockroaches in Seoul? |
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| Coffeeprincess wrote: |
Last night I came home to find what looked like a flying cockroach about the size of my thumb in my 3rd floor, one-room villa. Or at least that's what it looked like to me. It couldn't exactly fly, but it had wings and was flitting around. Do they have flying cockroaches here?
I ended up trapping it in a plastic baggie, but didn't kill it. I woke up this morning and it was still alive! What the hell is it? |
I found one of these fuckers in my place yesterday. A hastily-convened kangaroo court passed a capital verdict and the sentence was carried out using a hardback copy of Information Design by Edward Tufte, dropped from a height of about six feet. Later, its remains were placed upon a pike on the balcony as a warning to other transgressors. |
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Ukon
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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They all have wings I believe....
amazing little creatures.... |
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Coffeeprincess
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="MollyBloom"]Maybe it was a cicada?
Nope, definitely not a cicada. It has the long, creepy cockroach feelers. |
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Coffeeprincess
Joined: 19 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Flying cockroaches in Seoul? |
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| Stevie_B wrote: |
| Coffeeprincess wrote: |
Last night I came home to find what looked like a flying cockroach about the size of my thumb in my 3rd floor, one-room villa. Or at least that's what it looked like to me. It couldn't exactly fly, but it had wings and was flitting around. Do they have flying cockroaches here?
I ended up trapping it in a plastic baggie, but didn't kill it. I woke up this morning and it was still alive! What the hell is it? |
I found one of these fuckers in my place yesterday. A hastily-convened kangaroo court passed a capital verdict and the sentence was carried out using a hardback copy of Information Design by Edward Tufte, dropped from a height of about six feet. Later, its remains were placed upon a pike on the balcony as a warning to other transgressors. |
Damn, I couldn't decide whether I wanted to smash it against the wall or smash it on my floor...then I decided that I didn't want flying cockroach guts splattered all over my place, so I just trapped it in a plastic baggie - it will die a slow, suffocating death. Punishment for scaring the living daylights out of me!  |
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Hobophobic
Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting
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I have them around my place...I hunt them down because I can't sleep if they are about...not out of fear, but more for my own ability to get a proper night's rest...
You see, I live next to and over a more traditional local market...fish gutsy water running down hill, old veggies, foodstuffs all about seemingly attracts all of the best creepy crawlies...roaches the size of my thumb, mosquitoes, fruit flies, and even cats which look like they were whooped by pussn'boots himself, but it is bugs we are concerned with.....ah, but yes, they can flutter about, and many older homes have those straw blinds as well as blue mesh screening because of this I am told...
Anyhow, I practically shart once a week in the wee hours, as my wife literally screams bloody murder, and cries out frantically for her mommy at their sitings -waking me from my ever pleasant bowel-relaxed earplugged, ball holding, drooled-up pillow slumber....but still nothing like Kentucker4 has had to dealt with...
...on a side, and again off topic - what became of the first 3 Kentuckers? |
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