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Man blames severe stomach pain on street food — but nope, it's just a live cockroach living inside his belly

Carla Sinclair
Oct 17, 2024
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Cockroaches are known as hearty insects that can survive just about anything: sewers, decapitation, radiation after a nuclear war. And to prove the point, one cockroach was just spotted alive and well while wreaking havoc inside the stomach of a 23-year-old man.

At first the man thought his bloating, indigestion, and seve…

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