This happened to me with this same company, but with 500 cockroaches!!!
And it didn’t actually happen to me… it actually happened to my post office. But my local hub called to let me know that my package had been damaged in transit and was undeliverable. I was like “UH OH”
They gave me the WORST treatment every time I went in there to mail stuff out after that. Stopped going there for nearly 2 years until they stopped being mad. LOL Went across town to avoid them.
I know it wasn’t my fault and it was the company, but I understand why they were pissed.
From then on, I messaged insect sellers to request they securely bag / contain the bugs so I won’t be blacklisted from my local hub. They typically get a kick out of the story and my bugs have been securely packaged ever since!
Look, while I’m not saying the local hub employees were right, if I associated someone with the experience of dealing with 500 cockroaches I might not be able to really mask my contempt either 🤢
That’s why I didn’t judge them too harshly for the treatment. That had to be… “not fun” to deal with for those involved.
With some exceptions, I’m not sure I could maintain my contempt for someone for two years.
edit: Without further and/or ongoing provocation.
Are you farming the cockroaches for protein/milking them or something? I can’t fathom any other reason why anyone would want cockroaches other that these weird cases I read about on some science magazine.
Edit: just remembered they can be used as food for pets.
People get lonely at home alone
That’s why I always carry my tapeworm with me wherever I go!
extreme loneliness meet cockroaches? Hmmm… Make it set in Cthulhu mythos, sprinkle some kafka metamorphosis and you got yourself a nice PS1 styled indie horror game.
You can have fun with your 500 closest friends
If you’ve got 500 you’ll have 5000 in a week if they’re the bad kind.
Ogtha
No.
I bred them when I had lizards
Your edit is correct. Food for the lizards.
Dang, y’all really jump to the worst options first. 😕
It’s too late, I’ve already added the tag “cockroach milker” next to your username
Yeah, you’d like that, wouldn’t you?
Having a hard time blaming the post office workers here lol
Fucking amazing. I’m howling
This reminds me of the post warning not to open a box of mealworms outside.
The warning was illustrated by you being attacked by a flock birds.
Guys what is a good way of doing it?
A clear plastic container
Live bugs are always stored in a bag, bottle, or other sensible container. Not directly in the shipping box.
“Gardening” is the answer to the implied “why” :)
Pets that eat insects are the other answer
A netted rectangular prism inside a box?
Not alive for one
This one now always will tell bad jokes.
Tells a joke
*crickets*
friends c:
omg how funny. Kirsten basically paid money for a surprise cricket infestation, and ironically, now she has to find even more crickets to feed the pets while her place is infested with crickets lmaooooo i would love to hear Kirsten honestly express her thoughts and emotions about this instead of that toned down review 🤣🤣🤣
She could probably release a few bigger crickets and they would clean up the little guys for her. Yeah yeah something about an old lady and a fly.
Maybe some big green grasshoppers so they’re easy to find once the job is done.
Grasshoppers are like meat animals but insects.
Why do people even buy bugs online anyway? Feeding pet snakes? Wouldn’t local pickup be better for everyone?
We did it at a wildlife rehab center I worked at. If we bought local we would clean out the local bug supply in a couple days. Which happened a couple times when we couldn’t get them online or a package got lost.
Not that I think that’s what this is. The packaging could be better, but also you order a box of crickets you get a box of crickets…
Is this the next glitter bomb/ fart spray porch pirate trap?
I think that would constitute as terrorism. Cause if it doesn’t legally, I’m retaliating like it is.
I’m a fan of live ladybugs for pranks. You can buy 1500 ladybugs for like $9. They’re intended for garden pest control. They come with some wet food inside the container, (which provides both food and water for them) so they can live in the container for a day or two after being delivered. And their instinct when you open the container is to fly away, because they naturally want to spread out and get away from where they hatched.
Quietly pop that lid open during a housewarming party, and they’ll be finding ladybugs everywhere for weeks. At most, they’re a minor annoyance. So it’s not explicitly harmful or destructive like some of the other options. If anything, they’ll actually help control more harmful pests.
New high school senior prank just dropped…
It’s a surprise tool that will help us later.
Oh my god hahaha
