One million cockroaches flee China farm: report

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At least one million cockroaches have escaped a farm in China where they were being bred for use in traditional medicine, a report said.

The cockroaches fled the facility in Dafeng, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, for surrounding cornfields earlier this month after an "unknown perpetrator" destroyed the plastic greenhouse where they were raised, the Modern Express newspaper said.

Disease control authorities have sent five investigators to the area to come up with a plan to stamp out the insects.

Farm owner Wang Pengsheng invested more than 100,000 yuan ($16,000) in 102 kilograms of Periplaneta americana eggs after spending six months developing a business plan, the report Friday said.

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http://phys.org/news/2013-08-million-cockroaches-china-farm.html

[Brickbat]

1. I guess it's better than using rhino, lion and tiger body parts.

Seriously, some of that "traditional Chinese medicine" shit has got to stop.

[arcane1]

5. +100k!

[Xipe Totec]

2. La Cucaracha (The Dancing Cockroach Video) by DARIA

[flvegan]

3. The Cockroach Liberation Front declined to comment, I'm guessing.

[RebelOne]

4. That is going to take a lot of Raid. n/t

[pinboy3niner]

6. Officials say the actual number is probably lower...

...due to some of the escapees committing insecticide.

[Voice for Peace]

7. DUZY

[markiv]

8. and another thing, we're not 'cockroaches' anymore, we're

'infesting Americans'

[UtahLib]

9. What traditional medicine would that be? Ugh, never mind. n/t

[louis-t]

10. That won't end well.

[BlueJazz]

11. "Good Morning sir, ah ha...yes...yes...You've lost WHAT !! ?

[DearAbby]

12. FREE HEALTHCARE! n/t Run you little bastids, RUN.

[Zorra]

13. +1

[COLGATE4]

14. When I read the headline I for a moment

thought it was talking about a Young Republicans' convention. Silly me.