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Cockroaches brutally attack........

2007 Reader Submission
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Cockroaches brutally attack old lady with her own weapon 2006/10/23

A huge explosion rocked the city of Lvov in the middle of the night. As it turned out, a 66-year-old apartment owner decided to deal a serious blow to the eternally on-going with cockroaches by spraying the entire place with large amounts of dichlorvos, a nonpersistent organophosphorous pesticide.

Cockroaches brutally attack old lady with her own weapon

It appears that the senior resident simply tried a little too hard, to put it lightly: the concentrated toxic fumes exceeded the reasonable norm and the poison quickly produced a reaction as soon as the woman lit a candle to reach another dark corner with the pesticide.

As a result of the explosion doors and windows were knocked out and an entire apartment wall lay collapsed. On top of that many of the owner’s belongings were destroyed in the fire initiated by the powerful burst. The woman herself suffered as well and was taken to the nearby hospital in an emergency vehicle. Doctor on duty explained that the brave cockroach fighter remained in serious condition with 40% of her body covered with burns.

The neighbors lamented that the insects suffered no losses what so ever. Apparently the poison blew up before they had a chance to inhale it.

Submitted on 08/12/2007

Submitted by: Alex Oles
Reference: Kazanskie Vedomosti-2006/10/23

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
I recall the MythBusters episode where they tested those aerosol "bug bombs" to see if they'd explode like this. My guess is this woman never heard of the show. Thanks, Alex!


Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
This one seems awfully familiar but I could not find a submission previous to this one, so I vote HM. Thanks for the story, Alex


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