They're the collective sounds of primal anguish after reading a Florida woman's account of waking up with a palmetto bug in her ear. (That's the polite name for a flying cockroach, for those of you not acquainted with the reviled Sunshine State insects.) She did, in frightening, gut-churning detail that's made thousands of people across the nation wonder if they should sleep with earplugs. Holley, who is 29 and works as a sales and marketing manager in Melbourne on the state's east coast, has lived in Florida since 1995. In Florida it's really hard, because we all have bugs in our house, no matter how many times you spray."

Source: ABC News May 04, 2018 19:01 UTC