Reuters (Tel Aviv) - An Israeli woman's fight with a stubborn
cockroach put her husband in the hospital with burns, a broken
pelvis and broken ribs, the Jerusalem Post newspaper reported
yesterday.
The woman, frightened by the insect when she found it in their
living room, stepped on it, threw it in a toilet and sprayed a full
can of insecticide on it when it refused to die.
Her husband came home from work, went to the toilet and lit a
cigarette. When he threw the cigarette butt into the bowl, the
insecticide fumes ignited, "seriously burning his sensitive parts,"
the Post wrote.
When paramedics were called to the home in Tel Aviv, they
laughed so hard when they learned what had happened that they
dropped the stretcher down the stairs, breaking the unidentified
man's pelvis and ribs.