Cockroach Slain, Husband Badly Hurt

TEL AVIV - An Israeli woman's fight with a stubborn cockroach put her husband
in the hospital with burns, a broken pelvis and broken ribs, the Jerusalem Post
reported.
The woman, frightened by the insect when she found it in the living room,
stepped on it, threw it in the toilet and sprayed a full can of insecticide on
it when it refused to die.
Her husband came home from work, went to the toilet and lit a cigarette. When
he threw the cigarette butt into the bowl, the insecticide ignited, "seriously
burning his sensitive parts," the Post wrote.
When paramedics were called to the home in Tel Aviv, they laughed so hard when
they learned what had happened that they dropped the stretcher down the stairs,
breaking the unidentified man's pelvis and ribs.