aeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyiiii! Giant cockroach runs around on reporter's shoulders during live broadcast.

[Liberal_in_LA]

I would have freaked out!!

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What's scarier than Charles Manson? Almost this cockroach.

During a live television report on the LAPD's investigation into 12 unsolved homicides that may be tied to the Manson family, a giant roach ran amok all over NBC LA's Robert Kovacik. The rodent of insects dashed across the Los Angeles reporter's back and arms, narrowly missing a full face cameo on the man's moneymaker.

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/newmedia/2012/10/19/10608/giant-cockroach-runs-amok-reporter-robert-kovacik-/

[tk2kewl]

1. i guess he didn't notice

yuck

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. I bet he felt it.

[JI7]

6. it looks like it touched his neck, maybe as a reporter he is trained

to not react to things that might feel unusual while on air.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. yep

[JI7]

2. yuk, how does that happen? i hope they killed it

[slackmaster]

4. Charlie made the roach do that

[Politicalboi]

5. How long has this guy been standing there

I guess enough time for the roach to think he was dead.

[liberalmuse]

7. I lived in Vegas.

This is one of those things where you question what you are seeing. Did this really happen?

I know the cockroach and have studied it. It can live weeks without food and many days without water. It can collapse to the width of a dime to move into those small spaces. When I moved into a new place, the groundskeepers were digging up palms - you know, landscaping? "Waterbugs", aka "Cockroaches" decided to flee exodus from the palms to our homes. I was tired of seeing these HUGE "waterbugs" (you've got to be fucking kidding me? Waterbugs?), so I sealed all the dry goods in my kitchen in airtight containers, silicone caulked my base boards and mixed boric acid w/powered sugar to take care of the rest. It was very sinister and premeditated, and yes, I feel like a mass murderer, but they never crawled in bed with me again, and I slept well after my assault, dammit.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. I hate those things. One place I lived, they came on to the patio at night, I don't even like

seeing them outside.

[Habibi]

18. Ack.

We had "waterbugs" in NYC when I lived there back in the 70s. They were not roaches. But they were large scary beasties. I brought one home in a bag of groceries once. Had to kill it with a frying pan.

[xchrom]

8. ...

[Th1onein]

9. That's not a giant cockroach, guys.

It's what we call, on the Gulf Coast, a water bug. They live in Palm trees. And they BITE. They seem to be very aggressive and will fly directly into your face if you're chasing them and trying to kill them.

[LadyHawkAZ]

11. It's an American cockroach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach

We called them water roaches in Arizona. Nasty, disgusting things!

[Atman]

16. Never heard 'em called waterbugs.

I grew up in Florida, so I'm no stranger to cockroaches. Waterbugs were something totally different. We also had palmetto bugs, often mistaken for roaches. They stink like crazy when you smash them. And the roaches in Florida were HUGE. They light would scare them, and they'd fly right at your face...terrifying!

[Th1onein]

28. I think they're called different things in different places.

But they live in palmetto trees. And they do look like giant roaches. And they will BITE. They are aggressive as hell.

[HiPointDem]

47. they're all cockroaches, though.

The Florida woods cockroach (Eurycotis floridana), or palmetto bug, is a large species of cockroach which usually grows to a length of 1½ inch to 2 inches.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_woods_cockroach


The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), also known as the waterbug,[1] or misidentified as the palmetto bug (see Florida woods cockroach for the differences), is the largest species of common cockroach...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach


The oriental cockroach (also known as: waterbug and Blatta orientalis) is a large species of cockroach...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blatta_orientalis


The German cockroach (Blattella germanica) is a small species of cockroach...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattella_germanica


Blattella asahinai, the Asian cockroach is a species of cockroach...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_cockroach


Despite the names, in the US we have all of them.

[Atman]

49. The bottom two...

Especially the German roach, were the ones we called waterbugs. Lots smaller than the giant critters who would fly at your face! Didn't see the Asian roaches as much, but they were called waterbugs, too. They all suck! You can't really get rid of them in places like Florida. They're making homes in the walls even as the houses are being built. Having a monthly bug-man was a part of life. I don't miss 'em at all.

[Amaril]

48. Yep - Palmetto bugs

I killed one in my dogs' food bin just this morning (and then dumped the food into a trash bag & put it in one of the cans outside for fear there might be eggs in it). They are horrid and, yes, aggressive. I've had more than one dive bomb my face while trying to kill it.

[Zalatix]

45. WTF! Kill it with fire!!!

[LeftofObama]

10. Yuck!

I would have screamed like a baby!

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. I would thrown the microphone, screamed and ran, flailing my arms

[JI7]

14. i will vote for any candidate who promises to kill these things

and make them extinct.

[Habibi]

19. lol! me too!

[hollysmom]

27. the only way to get rid of them is to cook and eat them.

Things we like to ear tend to disappear or become rare.

Can we declare the antennae like roach ivory - and encourage people to kill them for their antennae? maybe we can say it is an aphrodisiac - that should cut into their numbers.

[gateley]

34. Advice from G Gordon Liddy?

[Cali_Democrat]

17. Cockroaches are the most disgusting creatures on the planet

[Zalatix]

46. Not true.

Republicans are.

[Atman]

50. +100

[Brickbat]

20. People ask me all the time how I can stand to live in Northern Minnesota.

Reason No. 1: Shit like that doesn't survive our winters.

This is how I would react to that kind of shit:

[LeftofObama]

22. ROFLMAO!

That would have been EXACTLY what I would have done only the screams would have been louder. Anybody who didn't know what was going on would probably call the police.

[RebelOne]

23. You ain't seen nothing unless you have lived in South Florida.

Those bastards are huge and they fly.

[laundry_queen]

25. OMG that is totally me.

Yes, living in the north has HUGE advantages (says this Canadian prairie dweller). Oddly enough, if you go further north than I am, into the forests, there are huge longhorn beetles that are every bit as disgusting and as big as a cockroach, but they prefer to stay in the forest. Every few years they like to congregate on the outside of your house. When they land on you (they fly) they have sticky feet so it's hard to shoo them off. And when they bite they take a huge chunk of skin with them. Thinking of those things makes me want to faint. I think I'll stay on the northern prairies.

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26. Bugs and reporters don't mix very well.

NSFW... language.

[lonestarnot]

40. OMG I was so hoping that was him when I opened your video. I love that dude!

weatherman.

[Catherine Vincent]

41. I was going to post that infamous video but you beat me to it

That guy will never live this down. LOL.

[Monk06]

21. Was it Tagg Romney lookin for to kick Obama's ass?

[2ndAmForComputers]

24. He's actually MADE of these, like that mook from Fright Night 2.

[MineralMan]

29. Not a giant cockroach. Just a normal one.

It's an insect. It ran across the guy's shoulder, and he probably didn't even know it was there.

They're not really dangerous. They're harmless in that situation. What's the big deal? If it were a grasshopper or a cricket, nobody would think anything of it.

It's just an insect, for pete's sake.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. a grasshopper would have freaked me out also

[MineralMan]

33. OK. Well, I don't understand that, really.

Now, a hornet or a wasp makes me nervous. No other insect, however, bothers me at all. Scorpions, on the other hand, are arthropods, not insects. I've been stung by one, so they worry me. Black widow spiders, I don't care for, although I never really hunted them down in California. If I saw one, I killed it, but the ones I didn't see, I left to their own devices.

My favorite insect is the Jerusalem Cricket. Over 2" long, they're all over in coastal California. They used to walk through my living room from time to time. I'd go over and pick them up and take them outside. I even got my wife to ignore them. If I was feeling lazy, I left them alone to walk to somewhere they wanted to go.

Insects just don't bother me. They're essentially harmless critters.

Here's a Jerusalem Cricket. In Mexico, they call them La Niña de la Tierra (Child of the Earth):



If you can handle those, you can cope with any insect you're likely to come across. They can bite, but usually don't. It's a sharp pinch, though.

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. I cannot handle that.

[TrollBuster9090]

31. Damn that bug gets around!

[Ilsa]

32. Seems to me that in Texas

those fucking giant cockroaches come out after a hard rain. This fact makes the drought seem more tolerable.

[Dawson Leery]

36. While the teabaggers are unpopular, they are everywhere.

[Jennicut]

37. Yuck.

I am soooo glad I live in the northeast. Yes, we get cockroaches. But they don't get big!

[demlion]

38. How about running into one of these; pic after the jump

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2012/05/31/giant-water-bug-from-bolivia/

[Liberal_in_LA]

42. ack

[Odin2005]

39. EWWWW!!!

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. I know!!!

[muriel_volestrangler]

44. Call that a giant insect? This is a giant insect

When they chow down on whole carrots, that's a giant insect.

What's up, doc?