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Roaches in the Glue Hoax
March 2001
Roach eggs in the envelope glue??? Oh come on. No one will believe that.
Will they???
This is just another rewrite of the Roaches in the Tacos hoax above.
Think about how many people lick envelopes every day. OK, got that in
mind? Now, if this were really a problem don't you think it would be on
the news every night? We would have the nightly "Roach Report" to list
how many people were in the hospital with the dreaded Roach Tongue. Do
you think you would be able to buy envelopes with lickable glue (all the
companies would be sued out of business)?
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 cut her tongue on the envelope. 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 roach
crawled out. There were roach 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.
To All: 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 envelops that were already printed for a
customer who was doing a mailing and saw several squads of roaches
roaming around inside a couple of boxes with eggs everywhere. They eat
the glue on the envelopes. I think print shops have a harder time
controlling roaches than a restaurant. I always buy the self sealing
type. Or if need be I use a glue stick to seal one that has the type of
glue that needs to be wet to stick.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON !!!!
Copyright 2004 by Jay Jennings
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