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Wednesday, May 02, 2007


What in the hell are these people thinking?
Wait! Stay your foot and spare the cockroach. There's money in them there bugs.

In a city with trillions of American cockroaches, the Houston Museum of Natural Science has agreed to pay a quarter per bug — up to 1,000 — as it seeks to populate a new insect exhibit alongside its Cockrell Butterfly Center.

Nancy Greig, the museum's curator of entomology, insists the public payday for roaches isn't just a marketing ploy.

"Absolutely, this wasn't devised as a joke," Greig said. "We needed more roaches for the exhibit, so I sent this message out to everyone in the museum asking people to bring them in. Well, someone decided to tell the press, and all hell has broken loose.

"But we really do need cockroaches."
25¢ for a cockroach? I imagine they'll have all they need in less than a week, but the question is who the hell wants to pay money to go see a cockroach exhibit when all you need to do is look around? Those flying suckers are everywhere. The Butterfly center is kinda cool because hey, when do you get to see a jungle full of butterflys? But cockroaches? Try getting away from them. Why would I pay to see more of what I pay the Orkin man to kill?



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