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.
