11.18.2004
The bug is gone.
There was this big cricket thing on our step one night as Jason and I returned to the house. It was about as big as two quarters. We weren't sure if it was dead or not, so Jason tried to spit at it. The spitball came close and the bug didn't even flinch. He thought it was dead. I wasn't so sure, so I nudged it with a stick. Sure enough, the bug was alive. It wasn't in a hurry to go anywhere though. So I put some a flammable gel substance on the bug, and got the lighter. We watched the blue glow for a while, as the bug just stayed there, seemingly ignorant to the situation it was in. (Yeah, I'm sick and demented. Jason has this part on video by the way.) I just assumed the bug died after that. The dead bug just stayed on the porch step, as I wanted to send a clear message to other potential invading insects that 5824 was not to be messed with. However, I came back today and the body was gone.
So either: A) Someone swept it up (not me), B) the crickets came to retreive the body of their buddy for a proper burial, C) a cat ate the dead bug, or D) it was the Jesus cricket.
There was this big cricket thing on our step one night as Jason and I returned to the house. It was about as big as two quarters. We weren't sure if it was dead or not, so Jason tried to spit at it. The spitball came close and the bug didn't even flinch. He thought it was dead. I wasn't so sure, so I nudged it with a stick. Sure enough, the bug was alive. It wasn't in a hurry to go anywhere though. So I put some a flammable gel substance on the bug, and got the lighter. We watched the blue glow for a while, as the bug just stayed there, seemingly ignorant to the situation it was in. (Yeah, I'm sick and demented. Jason has this part on video by the way.) I just assumed the bug died after that. The dead bug just stayed on the porch step, as I wanted to send a clear message to other potential invading insects that 5824 was not to be messed with. However, I came back today and the body was gone.
So either: A) Someone swept it up (not me), B) the crickets came to retreive the body of their buddy for a proper burial, C) a cat ate the dead bug, or D) it was the Jesus cricket.
