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  • Jorpho

    Reminiscent of that bit in Raiders of the Lost Ark, no?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkWAzo7vyac

  • Boundegar

    Their insect overseers normally remain out of view.  This one looked like a roadie running out to check a cord in the middle of a concert – very unprofessional.  I’ve sent a link to his supervisor, Kkk-kkkakzz-ttk.

  • http://www.disoriented.net/ angusm

    Some people insects will do anything to get on TV.

  • http://twitter.com/TheNewsIsBroken TheNewsIsBroken

    “Hey Robert, I have a breaking story for you…”
    I would would much rather have seen this kind of response:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qB6DWWUPXY

  • Mark Dow

    I’d like to see his right eye slowly roll right, and a quick tongue flick snatching it up as it runs into view, without a hitch in his reporting.

    • http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

      The lizards in the media are too smart to do that on camera.

  • baronkarza

    Paging Mr. Pratt, are you there? Talk to me!!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yob2uziCHaQ&feature=related

  • Quiche de Resistance

    I constantly imagine bugs to be crawling all over me, so when this happens to me it’s really no problem at all.  Kind of a relief in fact.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=853875404 Morgan James Hanam

    Ahhhh!  AHHHHHHHHH!  Seriously though, I kind of wonder if we’re just looking at consumate professionalism here. It moves so fast, it doesn’t look real – far north here so I ve actually only seen one cockroach up close in my whole life (and it took TWO stomps to kill it). 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OAUXAA362EXWLYVMPJOKLFB5JQ Incipient Madness

    Is that species very common on the west coast? Looks like Periplaneta americana. 

    • Boundegar

       Is that Latin for “big honkin Florida palmetto bug?”  Because yea, it does.

      • EH

        Can’t even think of one of those, which I have never seen, and I get the heebie-jeebies

      • blueelm

        Yeah it is, and the Giant Texas Cockroach too. 2 inches of flying loathsomeness. 

    • Antinous / Moderator

      We have them in Palm Springs. They’re huge, much larger than the one in this video.

  • Mitch_M

    Makes me nostalgic for my “talk to customer and make eye contact to draw attention away from furtively picking up a roach off the counter with a napkin” move when I worked at a diner.