Posted on 12/14/2023 9:19:32 AM PST by Red Badger
We've all been this guy (well, minus the explosion).
Whether it was a cockroach, a centipede, some bees, or even just innocent ants, we've all gone a bit overboard trying to play exterminator in our own home. But let's give it up for this guy for making us all not look so bad in comparison to what he did.
The epic pest control fail was reported early Sunday in the city of Kumamoto [Japan] on the island of Kyushu, about 230 miles southwest of Hiroshima.
Sometime before midnight, a 54-year-old man spotted a solitary cockroach inside his apartment in the city's Chuo Ward and sprayed a massive amount of insecticide to wipe out the critter …
A minute later, an explosion went off, blowing out a balcony window.
The unfortunate resident suffered a minor injury in the blast, police said.
Can't tell if I'm sorry for laughing. I mean, it's a minor injury, so I feel like it's okay to laugh. I just hope his apartment didn't take too hard of a hit.
The explosion seems to be linked to the man's kotatsu, which is basically a heated table. Kinda want one of these now that it's cold out, but kinda don't want one in case I get a little trigger happy on the Raid next time I spot a flying ant in my living room.
No word yet on whether the cockroach survived the explosion, though from experience I'd guess the little guy is doing just fine and munching on an orange right about now.
Moral of the story: Just kill a bug if you see it. Don't be a wimp.
Maybe next time.
it was really pathetic and shows you how brainwashed those morons are- just like the brainwashed morons here in America.
Please, please, please tell us- the cricket survived!!!
They take their bug spray seriously in Japan. I was sitting in my landlord’s house in the little town of Hayama and we spotted a couple of mosquitos in the far corner of the room. “Watch this,” he sez, producing an aerosol can with a little pull-up spray barrel. One tiny spray, maybe a quarter of a second, and the evil little buggers death-spiraled into the ground. “Man,” I sez, “I wish that stuff was legal in the States.” It isn’t.
Oh!
You’re right
Duh!
Where’s my sign?
We used to have that kind of spray in the USA.
It was NICOTINE based...............
Nothing succeeds like excess!
As a teenager, I once had a nightmare of some insect walked up into one nostril, turned around, then exited out the other nostril. Fortunately, I don't remember who it was...
Where there’s one...
I just bought a new refrigerator and was surprised to learn that it used R600a refrigerant instead of R134a.
I looked up R600a and was aghast to learn that R600a was isobutane, the same stuff in Bic lighters!
I don’t think it did, though I never recovered the corpse.
When I worked in Mexico, there was an insecticide called OKO that we used. If you shot one small puff into the air so that a housefly flew through it, that fly was down and dead within 15 seconds. I should have smuggled a few cans back.
That looks like Gen. Keane..
No word yet on whether the cockroach survived the explosion, At least the author did not leave us hanging.
A coworker accidentally set fire to the house he was renting while attempting to exterminate cockroaches using WD40 spray and a Bic lighter. The house was a total lost, I think the cockroaches made it out.
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