No Way!
I got this e-mail from my dad:
A woman was working in a post office in California.One day she licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a sponge. That very day the lady found a cut on her tongue. A week later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue. She went to the doctor, and they found nothing wrong. Her tongue was not sore or anything. A couple of days later, her tongue started to swell more, and it began to get really sore, so sore, that she could not eat. She went back to the hospital, and demanded something be done. The doctor took an x-ray of her tongue and noticed a lump. He prepared her for minor surgery. When the doctor cut her tongue open, a live cockroach crawled out!!!!
There were cockroach eggs on the seal of the envelope. The egg was able to hatch inside of her tongue, because of her saliva. It was warm and moist…
This is a true story reported on CNN
Andy Hume wrote:
Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You wouldn’t believe the….things that float around in those gum applicator trays. I haven’t licked an envelope for years!” I used to work for a print shop (32 years ago) and we were told NEVER to lick the envelopes. I never understood why until I had to go into storage and pull out 2500 envelopes that were already printed and saw several squads of cockroaches roaming around inside a couple of boxes with eggs everywhere. They eat the glue on the envelopes.
July 11th, 2006 at
yuck!
July 11th, 2006 at
thats y the invented the EMAIL :P
July 11th, 2006 at
how am i ever gonna take that image off my mind!!
u reminded me of sienfield, the girlfriend of the bald guy, she kept licking the envolopes until she died of the chemical they put
July 11th, 2006 at
Oh yeah… I remember that *giggles* ! That left an impact n’ made me stop lickin’ envelopes bas laeradeyan, I got the habit back again; So, If I ever complain from a swollen tongue.. you know why heheh :D
July 11th, 2006 at
Hi…that’s quite an old story. I got that email like 2 years ago or more I think.
It’s an urban legend in which the same story happens in exactly the same way to people in different states/countries.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Cockroaches can’t survive outside of their eggs. ;)
Here’s a link for more information:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/cockroaches/a/fear_of_licking.htm
July 11th, 2006 at
Eww @_@
July 11th, 2006 at
Hehehe! That’s ok, I never knew that was the case; As for the cucarachas, I never bothered to read about them, cuz the mere though of these yukhy creatures disgust me! Thanks for the update though ;)
O welcome here !
July 11th, 2006 at
yeah i got this years ago too.. i think its baloney :P
July 12th, 2006 at
Love the way you spelt cucarachas it’s so funny .I have an image of ,cucarachas dancing to some italian music cucarachas cucarachas cucarachas !!!!
I never lick envelopes they stick on there own right ?
vintage
I thought about the exact same thing when I first read this Lol!
It’s wierd how the comedy sienfield has a great impact in our lives .
July 12th, 2006 at
weeee3 :/
July 15th, 2006 at
I remember a short story I once wrote in my primary years: ‘The March of the Cockroaches.’ I’ll leave out the details!