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myLot reputation of 76/100. Jamian (2331) 6 years ago

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.

After reading this you will never
lick another envelope or stamp again

 

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1. myLot reputation of 96/100. PatriciaL (1450)   6 years ago

Eww, eww, eww, ewwwwww! That's disgusting! Thanks so much for posting this discussion, I'm never licking an envelope again. That's so gross. +


myLot reputation of 76/100. Jamian (2331)  6 years ago

Yah! me too, hehehe, We must be careful on what we are licking. hehe


myLot reputation of 96/100. PatriciaL (1450)  6 years ago

lol, yeah that's true. :)

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2. myLot reputation of 93/100. alladisada (2066)   6 years ago

how horrible it is
any way thanks for telling some facts

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3. myLot reputation of 78/100. TannerSite (681)   6 years ago

I don't believe that. There is so much garbage like this floating around the web that it really can't be trusted, cockroach eggs growing in a tongue? That reminds me of the story where a spider layed babies inside of a zit or something, it's just a joke. Unless you can point me in the direction of the ACTUAL CNN article/report, I strongly doubt this.

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4. myLot reputation of 69/100. demos4582 (370)   6 years ago

weeeeeeeeeeeewww,, thats the most gross thing i ever heard.. and thats happen?? poor lady..


myLot reputation of 76/100. Jamian (2331)  6 years ago

yeah, poor lady, she's been unlucky. thanks a lot

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5. myLot reputation of 84/100. edelweiss (1644)   6 years ago

EWWWWWWW! That's gross and most weird story I've ever heard! And I don't know if I believe the story but I heard ants coming out of people's eyes.

I dont know if this is different case!

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