Saved a Cockroaches Life

ThailandTom

I was doing my washing, whites I do by hand and I came across a cockroach upside down out on my patio type place. I assumed it was done for as you tend to see this often and ants swarming round it, but it was wriggling away, so I decided to flip it over and let it scurry off somewhere lol.

Lady_Alison

You were kinder than I would have been.

vinlyn

While I was living there, I would usually do the same...providing they were not in the condo...but I would then throw them off the balcony.

ThailandTom

Lol I ALWAYS catch and release them if they are still alive. They still freak me out a bit for some reason, I know of course they are harmless but they just gross me out a bit. Nevertheless, I spare their lives when I can. My girlfriend on the other hand, broom, smack smack smack "die die die". That is if I do not get there first.

vinlyn

^ Have you ever eaten one deep fried?

ThailandTom

No I have not lol, but I have seen them in Bangkok. I have tried a few other insects though deep fried, but there is just something about cockroaches that I really get grossed out at. Have you?

By the way, chucking them out of your balcony? Would they survive lol?

vinlyn

^ The cockroaches I'm thinking about have wings, so I think they would survive. And no, I wouldn't try a deep friend any insect...but I used to see one vendor every day. Yuck.

ThailandTom

I have this curiosity about me which I have had all of my life, I like to try many things, so I did. I think the ones with wings are females because I found two mating in my kitchen lol.

federica

This amply demonstrates that countries on the same planet can be worlds apart...

In England, a public kitchen would have a Health & sSafety Food Hygiene violation slapped onto it, they'd be issued a hefty fine, have court order issued, it would be closed down temporarily, fumigated, stripped, cleaned and re-inspected before being re-approved for opening.

In Thailand - catch 'em, fry them, eat 'em!!

ThailandTom

lol oh dear federica, if you came here you would quickly realize that health and saftey is not on the list of priorities in Thailand. As far as food goes, I have posted before that I eat at vendors often and the meat is out in 30+ degrees heat all day on a bed of ice with flies around it. I know it, but I have eaten that stuff for 2+ years. Anyway, here are some pics of health and saftey here for your viewing pleasure. The last picture with the truck is the festival of songkran which starts 2moro!!! The giant 3 days water fight

andyrobyn

Ohhhh, those are the big cockroaches which I react to - pleased to hear you let one go and that it scuttled away - away is good - lol

ThailandTom

I don't think that picture with the yellow background is actually cockroaches, well at least not all of them. I can see grasshoppers I think, but I am not quite sure lol.

i couldn't find some pictures to illustrate what I have seen here a few times, things like a guy on a motorbike holdin a baby on his knee whilst driving with no helmet. The most I have seen on one bike is five people!

federica

lol oh dear federica, if you came here you would quickly realize that health and saftey is not on the list of priorities in Thailand.

Oh i know... i seem to remember posting an account of a friend i had going to Thailand and living off street vendor food for the whole time she was there, but eating the hotel restaurant dinner on her last night there - and coming down with serious food poisoning three days later - which was traced back to the hotel food!

So while i know some things can be tricky out there, i sometimes believe we in the west are far too hygienic for our own good...
If you come back to the UK, expect some tummy upset, because of the drastic change in diet, water and food prep!

ThailandTom

Wow, you really think reveting back to the UK intake of food and water I will have a few problems? I do think that the UK and the West in general are to hygienic, again going back to that teaching of the middle way. We humans seem to take some things way too far with the advancement of knowledge.

federica

Yes, you'll have problems - because what you have done is become used, accustomed and inured to the bacteria and microbes of where you live... ever single region you move to removed from your natural habitat, will have developed its own 'set' of bacterial groups...
when people go abroad and complain of a dicky tummy for a few days, it's not food poisoning per se... it's just your system not being accustomed to the local groups of microbes/germs/bacteria. This is why locals have no problem drinking their tap water, for example, but tourists and visitors are encouraged to drink bottled water, and not to eat salads and fresh fruit washed in local water.
It's not poison, just alien.

Arthurbodhi

Yes, you'll have problems - because what you have done is become used, accustomed and inured to the bacteria and microbes of where you live... ever single region you move to removed from your natural habitat, will have developed its own 'set' of bacterial groups...
when people go abroad and complain of a dicky tummy for a few days, it's not food poisoning per se... it's just your system not being accustomed to the local groups of microbes/germs/bacteria. This is why locals have no problem drinking their tap water, for example, but tourists and visitors are encouraged to drink bottled water, and not to eat salads and fresh fruit washed in local water.
It's not poison, just alien.

That is true, if you come to my country and drink water you will get sick and the same will happen to me if I go to other country. All tourists are advised to buy bottle of mineral water.

Blessings.

vinlyn

Even my Thai friends who live in the US often get sick when they return to Thailand to visit. And a number of my former students who were Japanese got sick when they came to the US.