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In a desperate bid to kill just one cockroach that was plaguing his existence, a man in Japan caused a massive explosion in his house.
According to science, at all times were are surrounded by up to 100 creepy crawlies. On a bigger scale, there are roughly 1.4 billion insects for every person on Earth. But one Japanese man was plagued not by millions, but by a single cockroach that refused to die.
What led to the near-fatal explosion?
In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the city of Kumamoto on the island of Kyushu, an unidentified man was facing off against a solitary cockroach. In a last-ditch attempt to kill the insect, the man flooded his apartment in the Chuo Ward area with insecticide.
As reported by the Kumamoto Prefectural Police, this was a near-deadly error. The insecticide was actually highly flammable, as most are.
An explosion was heard in the surrounding area
The bug spray had ignited thanks to his kotatsu, which is a Japanese heated table that is often used to eat food. The consequential explosion shattered the exterior windows and left the man with minor injuries.
Shockingly, Japanese authorities have previously reported issues with insecticide combusting when coming into contact with electrical currents.
On Instagram, many users were left wondering whether the cockroach was killed in the explosion or if it’s still on the loose.
One person wrote: “I bet it crawled out like “dang that’s crazy… anyways.”
“id the cockroach die though,” another person wrote, while a third added, “And I bet that after all this sh*t, that thing is still alive!”
Why are cockroaches so resilient?
For some reason, everyone knows that a cockroach would most likely survive a nuclear blast. But why are they such hardy creatures?
The environmental health website Berratine wrote: “Thanks to their tendency to live among toxin-producing bacteria and to eat plant matter that might hold toxic substances, roaches were “pre-adapted” to the insecticides that humans throw at them.”
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