Never Lick: Weird n dirty

**akshay81** · Aug 10th, 2006, 10:15

Received this thru mail. I knw this is not true & is impossible. But still read on...

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 found a cut on her tongue. 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 cockroach crawled out!!!!

There were cockroach 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

Andy Hume wrote:

Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You wouldn't believe
the....things that float around in those gum applicator trays. I haven't
licked an envelope for years!" I used to work for a print shop (32 years
ago) and we were told NEVER to lick the envelopes. I never understood why
until I had to go into storage and pull out 2500 envelopes that were
already printed and saw several squads of cockroaches roaming around
inside a couple of boxes with eggs everywhere. They eat the glue on the
envelopes.

**tejas_nice** · Aug 10th, 2006, 10:44

ohh dear

thts really bad thanks for the advice..

**darkstallion** · Aug 10th, 2006, 10:52

Well i think that it is possible. Quite an interesting story 2

thanks

**doc_sameer** · Aug 10th, 2006, 12:12

thats so stupid! the story i mean.... how can cockroach eggs stay on your tongue for so long & hatch!

& btw, how did they get INSIDE the tongue tissues? did they have boring machines on them? or atleast stings or pricks?

& u have to be a reallllyyyy dirty person not to wash your mouth/clean your tongue for so long for that to happen!

I think its a stupid hoax....nothing more!

**akshay81** · Aug 10th, 2006, 12:34

@Doc

I disagree with ur 1st 2 lines:

1. The eggs of cockroaches can stay in most dingy, unhealthy, dangerous place n still survive. Even if romped upon, some eggs may still survive as in the case of tongue. It is said that cockroaches wud b the last to b affected by nuclear holocaust. So mouth is a better place I guess...

2. They got inside the tissue coz "That very day the lady found a cut on her tongue"

Though I agree with ur 3rd n 4th statement...