October 6, 2002
BUGGIN':
Exterminators rescue bug-weary block (Dan Geringer, Oct. 04, 2002, Philadelphia Daily News)HELD HOSTAGE for two years by a cockroach army that numbered in the thousands, long-suffering residents of the 1500 block of Hewson Street in Fishtown cheered exterminators yesterday as they emerged victorious from the roaches' breeding ground: 1585.Posted by Orrin Judd at October 6, 2002 8:13 AMWearing full-face respirators and full-body, polyethylene 'space' suits, exterminators Frank Fioravanti and his nephew, Ed Fioravanti, were followed out of the rowhouse by wave after wave of poisoned cockroaches, gasping their last before dying in Hewson, near Cedar Street.
Comments
Clearly, we must amend the old joke: the only creatures who can survive a nuclear war aren't cockroaches, they're cockroach exterminators! That is a truly disgusting and funny story.
Posted by: Just John at October 6, 2002 2:04 PMUgh. And I thought we had it bad in Florida.
Posted by: Buttercup at October 6, 2002 4:54 PMTom DeLay is "The Omega Man"
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