Texas woman approaches council dressed as cockroach

[TexasTowelie]

And it isn't Austin!


CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—A South Texas woman showed up to a recent City Council meeting dressed as a cockroach.

It's Patricia Polastri's latest attempt to bring attention to the influx of roaches and rodents near a major Corpus Christi road after new vegetation was planted, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times reported. The Texas A&M University-Kingsville professor brought a bag of dead cockroaches to a City Council meeting last month to complain about the vegetation planted along Ocean Drive.

She said residents' safety is at risk by cockroaches and other rodents attracted to the street's palm trees and bushes.

"I lived there when we only had three palms in that section of Ocean Drive; now we have 35," said Polastri, who has lived in the area since 2012. "In five blocks, we have 156 palms alone. The city is not going to take care of that."

Read more: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/texas/story/2018/jul/19/texas-woman-approaches-council-dressed-cockroach/735164/


Corpus Christi resident Patricia Polastri, dressed as a cockroach, speaks Tuesday, July 17, 2018, about her concern for the growing number of rodents and insects that she claims have been brought by newly planted palm trees. The Texas A&M University-Kingsville professor brought a bag of dead cockroaches to a City Council meeting last month to complain about the vegetation planted along Ocean Drive. She said residents' safety is at risk by cockroaches and other rodents attracted to the street's palm trees and bushes. (Julie Garcia/Corpus Christi Caller-Times via AP)