

So, next time you see a cockroach, what do you do? Dare to grab it with your bare hands or throw everything in your vicinity at it till it’s dead? READ MORE: Did You Know That Cockroaches Taste Like Cottage Cheese? While we’re at it, here are some facts about cockroaches that you might not know. Well, guess they’re not useless after all. For us humans, they help us in medicinal science (cockroach antibiotics for certain diseases) and innovation technology (their efficient legs aid as a model in prosthetic and robotic applications). In nature, some animals depend on them for a food source. 😩īut as dangerous as they are, surprisingly, they have benefits too. There was even a trend to put cockroaches on your face back in 2019. They are also known to infect the food they touch with bacteria such as salmonella, staphylococcus, and streptococcus, as stated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA). Not only can they trigger asthma and allergies in some people, but according to the World Health Organization ( WHO), they are carriers of intestinal diseases like diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery and typhoid fever. They live in filth, can eat whatever ‘food’ (cardboard, garbage, food scraps, faecal matter or even their own ‘friends’) they want and they carry pathogens harmful to humans. These things are the cause of nightmares for some.Ĭockroaches are filthy animals for a reason. Cockroaches are proven to be dangerous, pathologically speakingĪs courageous as it seems (and we do applaud her for that), we hoped she washed her hands thoroughly after grabbing the poor creature. Weren’t we the ones that should be scared of it? Some were even confused as this is not a normal reaction should be like. “My soul jumped out of my body when she grabbed it” Some of them were grossed out and some greatly admired her for the bravery she possessed. Netizens in the comment section were quite stunned by the video. (Credit: / TikTok) To squirm or to be amazed? We should be asking the cockroach if it’s okay. Way to go cockroach exterminator! Are you okay, sis? No. Then she threw the cockroach out of her window from the fifth floor of her high-rise building. Thanks for that, we guess? We can’t even swat it with a newspaper sometimes let alone catch it with our bare hands. Not only did she get it on tape but she even zoomed the camera to the roach and let us stare at it for a few good seconds. She found a cockroach on a random bag in her house and proceeded to trap it with her hands (awesome fast reflects, we might add). forgive me cockroach 🙏 #oggyandcrockroaches #lipasterbang #fyp ♬ Oggy and the Cockroaches – Hugues LeBars Superwoman? Is that you? The cockroach was too stunned to speak.Ī TikTok user, has recently uploaded a ‘gruesome’ video of her trapping a cockroach with her bare hands.

However, some people are just made different. Most of us don’t dare to touch the cockroach with our bare hands because let’s face it, the tiny hairs on their legs, their scary-looking eyes, the constantly moving antenna, and the squishy squashy body? Thank you, we’ll pass.
