PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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JIM MAXON: I'm guessing - if it's - the livestock is too easy. I'm going to say his wife, his long-suffering wife.
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SAGAL: No. The perpetrator's last act after he opened the cages was to turn on the light so they'd scatter.
MAXON: Cockroaches.
SAGAL: Yes,
TOM BODETT: He stole the cockroaches.
CHARLIE PIERCE: He freed them.
SAGAL: He released - he freed one million cockroaches.
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SAGAL: The story, which was first reported on by The Nightmare You Can't Seem To Wake Up From Gazette...
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SAGAL: Is that the farmer had purchased $16,000 worth of cockroach eggs and had been raising the little bugs inside a...
AMY DICKINSON: Whoa, wait.
SAGAL: ...plastic greenhouse on his property. But this week, an unknown perpetrator snuck onto the farm, destroyed the greenhouse, releasing over a million cockroaches in the process. It was just like Pamplona's running of the bulls, except with more crunching.
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DICKINSON: But wait, you can actually order cockroach eggs?
SAGAL: Apparently you can.
PIERCE: From Amazon.
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DICKINSON: I like it.
PIERCE: No, no, no, not Amazon.com, the actual Amazon.
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