Roaches pour out of vents, side panels in Greyhound bus
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Riders on a New York City-bound bus from New Jersey are reporting an invasion of cockroaches.
A passenger on a Manhattan-bound bus from Atlantic City tells WABC-TV that roaches started coming out of the vents inside the bus just 15 minutes into their Friday afternoon journey.
The passenger reports roaches could be seen crawling on seats, windows, side panels and even on people.
Greyhound said the 48 passengers on board were moved to a new bus, and the bus they had been riding is being examined to determine where the bugs came from.
A passenger on a Manhattan-bound bus from Atlantic City tells WABC-TV that roaches started coming out of the vents inside the bus just 15 minutes into their Friday afternoon journey.
The passenger reports roaches could be seen crawling on seats, windows, side panels and even on people.
Greyhound said the 48 passengers on board were moved to a new bus, and the bus they had been riding is being examined to determine where the bugs came from.
Like rats leaving a sinking ship? People's fears about insects strike me a a little silly. A human weighs 120 to 200+ pounds and the insect weighs part of an ounce. So few of them are poisonous and most of those are readily identifiable. I guess it just shows how irrational fear really is.
@jcman Probably because they're so cute and cuddly! I mean, look at that picture...who could resist that face?
Some entrepreneur needs to put together an investment group to start an export industry of deep fried roaches to Africa, Asia and India, where they are already a cheap, abundant protein source. Â
Roaches have been around at least 400 million years; perhaps Mother Nature's best success story. Â
Kiss your girl where it stinks! Take her to New Jersey!
Sounds like they had enough of N.J. and headed for the Big Apple.
It's not surprising. My Funk and Wagnalls says "roaches provide a huge source of food for predator insects such as scorpions, spiders, and defeated gamblers"
@Binny89 creepy crawlies
I was going to make a joke about Greyhound offering crunchy high-protein snack service, but I get gaggy just thinking about it. *hurk*
@Binny89 yuek for that one, we don't get many of those here
You saw Snakes On A Plane, now get ready for...
Roaches On A Bus
I am sick of these mutha f******* roaches, on this mutha f********* bus!
Oh hell no!!!
nopenopenopenopenopenopenope
In March 2005 we returned to Wa from a 3 year tour of duty in Hawaii. One month after picking up our van from the shipping area, we were heading out shopping one evening and as soon as I opened the door of our 1 year old van, we saw roaches scatter inside. I don't mean a few either. It was more like a few dozen. I was thoroughly grossed out and sprayed 2 cans of roach killer inside my van. Oh good Lord I think I asphyxiated us all for the next month with the overpowering smell of that chemical. Probably not the bet idea but it did kill them all and we had the entire inside detailed. What purpose is there for roaches?
@Robinsnest I have no idea what use they are. When I was a little girl we lived in Houston for awhile, very large cockroaches there as well, that is where I developed my fear of them. My mother kept absolutely everything in Tupperware to minimize them coming in the house, but they still got in anyway no matter how clean you were. I would wake up and find one on my wall from time to time.... Some children were afraid of monsters in the closet or the boogeyman, not me only the very real and very nasty cockroaches coming in my room at night!
Even the cockroaches are trying to escape New Jersey.
@chasplund @komonews just in case you needed another reason not to take greyhound.
They can detect fear.
Yet another reason why I gave up the dog.Â
@Citizen#3457899654 Right on. I rode the dog from J-ville back to Sea-Town with a few hundred or so room mates. What a nasty a$$ed ride that was! Back in Seattle, I didn't leave the station until I went through my duffel to make sure none of those little ---- went home with me. Never rode the dog again.
@Citizen#3457899654Â what??? What do dogs have to do with cockroaches?
I was hoping for amateur video of the bus parked on a shoulder with people screaming and doing that "I have a bug on me!" dance as they run off the bus.
Oh MY GOD!!! This is my worst nightmare! I am terrified of these nasty little creatures, After living in SC I learned that they are the state animal! Nasty Nasty Nasty!! Did I mention how much I dislike them?
@Susabelle When I was in basic training in San Antonio TX, we'd have to get up and do PT at 4:30am before it got too hot outside. The first morning of PT, the drill instructors left the lights off. We were outside on a concrete slab and as you are laying there do sit-ups and push-ups, you get that creepy crawly feeling and sometimes heard something that didn't sound quite right.Â
Sure enough, the instructor then flips on the lights mid sit-up and all around us are the biggest cockroaches I have ever seen in my life. LOTS and LOTS of cockroaches. As soon as the lights came on, they scattered everywhere... and so did most the trainees too... the girls AND the boys. LOL
@Tattooed_Angel2 @Susabelle "shudder". When we lived in NC, I had taken the garbage out and was on my way back in the house, I was in my bathrobe and as I got close to the door I saw there was a large cockroach on the screen door. I was hollering for my husband to get the thing off the screen so I could come back in the house, because there was no way I was getting near it. Anyway, DH finally shows up and smacks the screen. Did you know that some of these monsters fly? Well I did not realize it until it flew right into my bathrobe. After I stripped out of my bathrobe screaming the entire time and streaked naked as the day I was born back into the house crying, I found my husband rolling on the floor laughing. I did not speak to him for several hours... Funny now, but it was awful at the time! I truly hate those nasty things!
@Susabelle I'm in SC now and learned shortly after we moved here that I am allergic to roaches. Yes, they are big and plentiful here, but nothing like Hawaii. At least there aren't the huge centipedes here. THOSE frighten the heck out of me.
@Robinsnest @Susabelle It was indicated, years back, that cockroaches are the real culprit in allergy to chocolate.
http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2012/03/31/allergic-to-chocolate-study-reveals-cockroach-parts-not-cocoa-real-culprit/
@Robinsnest @Susabelle Are you on the coast or inland? We lived in Charleston. Those "palmetto" bugs gave me nightmares. I told my husband that if the roaches ever moved in, I was moving out! LOL!