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So you bought an electronic pest repeller for $9.99 and plug it into an outlet and it repels all insects from your entire house. That’s how it works right? I mean if it were that good there would be no pest control industry! These gimmick devices have been soundly disproven by science again and again. The problem is that people do not believe science and facts so millions of these stupid things are still being sold every year!

Well, here is some visual proof that proves yet again that these things are a gimmick. This ultrasonic unit was plugged into an outlet in an apartment in Boston. As you can see it did absolutely nothing to repel or control the German Cockroaches. In fact they seemed to love the extra warmth it provided as evident by the copious amounts of fecal matter. Perhaps I should go into the snake oil sales business?

Jon Hinthorne
Service Specialist
Environmental Health Services, Inc.

Pest Control, RI, Pest Control, MA 

Lady Gaga Designs Mad Live Cockroach Hat

The singer has instructed her designers to come up with a hat filled with cockroaches.

She’s grown fond of the insects since being informed of a study which proved they respond to her music more than songs by any other artist.

A source said: “Lady Gaga has been looking to top her famous meat dress for some time — and this could be it.

“She dubbed cockroaches ‘My real life monsters’ after hearing of the recent study.

“Now she wants to incorporate them in a headpiece by having them crawling around inside a netted cage.”

Last year students in New York, who were studying the engineering and movements of cockroaches, played music to the insects to get them moving after they failed to respond to electric pulses.

After material from Weezer and heavy metal group Avenged Sevenfold bombed, Gaga’s hits sparked them into life.

At least this headwear will be one of the cheapest in her massive collection.

A box of cockroaches shouldn’t set her designers back too much at her local pet shop.

Wearing the creepy crawly-filled hat is also handy preparation should her career nose-dive and she ends up in a future series of I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here. I’d love to see her in the jungle alongside Michael Owen, Stavros Flatley and Lindsay Lohan.

Meanwhile, Gaga suffered concussion on stage in New Zealand after a dancer cracked her over the head with a pole.

She didn’t let the accident cut short her sell-out show though, and completed 16 more songs.

She told her audience: “I want to apologise. I did hit my head and I think I may have a concussion but don’t you worry, I will finish this show.”

The dancer must have seen a cockroach.

Source: www.thesun.co.uk

George Williams,
General Manager - Staff Entomologist

Pest Control, RI, Pest Control, MA