South Texas professor approaches City Council dressed as cockroach

KHOU ^ | 7/19/18 | Julie Garcia

[Libloather]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (CALLER TIMES) -- First, Patricia Polastri made slideshows about the new vegetation planted on Ocean Drive near Cole Park and the roaches and rodents it could bring.

Next, she brought a plastic bag of dead cockroaches to a June City Council meeting and handed it to Interim City Manager Keith Selman.

Now, Polastri has dressed like a cockroach herself to get her point across.

"I lived there when we only had three palms in that section of Ocean Drive; now we have 35," she said. "In five blocks, we have 156 palms alone. The city is not going to take care of that."

[Theodore R.]

Ants are very bad in TX.

[CovenBuster]

Interesting reading. We call them tree roaches here in the Houston-Galveston area. There’s a certain season (now) when they find their way into the house. I’m pretty sure they’re coming in somewhere at the top of the fireplace because it’s usually the first place I see them. They look like a 747 up there on my white ceiling. Then there are those times when you can hear them rustling in papers or whatever as they navigate here and there. THAT’s really creepy because you can’t keep an eye on them.

When there’s one in the house, I have to find a way to kill it before I go to bed. I had one fall on me from a ceiling many years ago, and I can still remember what a creepy experience that was. That said, I’m pretty sure I’m not ready for chickens or guineas.