I received this info from my cousin and it just shocked me. I guess you never know what to expect. I always lick my envelopes to mail. I will think twice now.

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.

-- sara (tshoos@peoplepc.com), April 02, 2001

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Response to Shocking

That's perhaps the weirdest thing I've ever heard. Well, they certainly weren't our Texas cockroaches because you can't very well miss their egg pouches ;-)

-- mary, texas (marylgarcia@aol.com), April 02, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Just because it was reported on CNN does not make it true!!!

I have two questions: 1) What kind of roach lays single eggs small enough to hide like this, AND 2) Was this reported on APRIL 1 ?

-- Lynn Goltz (lynngoltz@aol.com), April 02, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Sorry, but this never happened. It's just one of those urban legends. You can check out things like this at www.heavenlyminded.org/truth. It is a Christian site that sorts out truth from fiction.

God bless!

-- Bonnie (stichart@plix.com), April 02, 2001.

Response to Shocking

This is another of those things that has been around a dozen times. Why post it here???

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), April 02, 2001.

Response to Shocking

No this was true...it wasn't a cock roach but a little alien from another world. I read about it in the Star :-)

-- Kent in WA (kent@premier1.net), April 02, 2001.

Response to Shocking

www.urbanmyths.com

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), April 02, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Minds that need inquiring need to know.

-- David (bluewaterfarm@mindspring.com), April 02, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Is that the same type of roaches that lay their eggs in toilet paper??!!

-- mitch hearn (moopups1@aol.com), April 03, 2001.

Response to Shocking

WOW,,,isn't the world an amazing place!!!!!!

-- jz (oz49us@yahoo.com), April 03, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Ok like I posted I received this from my cousin. I posted this here because I thought it was worth reading. Sorry if it offended anyone and if it isn't true. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to be nasty with their replys. Sorry to have wasted my time and yours.

-- sara (tshoos@peoplepc.com), April 03, 2001.

Response to Shocking

I didn't see any nastiness. Just consider checking out facts before posting stuff as such. We count on each other here for that.

-- Anne (HealthyTouch101@wildmail.com), April 03, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Hey Sara, don't feel bad. Everybody gets sucked in on these things once in a while. After the first time or two, you learn to be very, very skeptical, but there's still that first time or two to get past. So don't worry about it. If the one who has never been buffaloed casts the first stone, I think you're going to be quite safe.

-- Laura Jensen (lrjensen@nwlink.com), April 05, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Hey, Scotty, Beam me up.

-- hillbilly (internethillbilly@hotmail.com), April 05, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Sara, I agree with Anne. The only slightly nasty reply I see is yours.

-- Lynn Goltz (lynngoltz@aol.com), April 05, 2001.

Response to Shocking

Hey, don't feel alone. When I first went on-line, I asked my daughter about every weird email I received. In fact, I got some urban legand ones from people who should have known better. By the way, I had no idea how to verify any of them, so I felt pretty silly asking my daughter about them. I consider it now a learning lesson. And if poeple in here have no patience, well, consider the source. I'm sure they were new at this stuff once too.

-- Ardie from WI (a6203@hotmail.com), April 05, 2001.