Interesting Find in the Cricket Bin

[Shelby]

So, I was catching crickets in my cricket bin for Beetlejuice, my chameleon, to eat.. and I discovered this abomination.

Oh yeah.. he's very alive too.

[led4urhead]

He looks like something out of Half-Life :shock:

[Brandon.O]

:o That is some scary stuff right there.

I wonder how long they can live like that.I know roaches last a long time.

[invadertoast]

What the heck? That thing's gonna give me nightmares... crickets are creepy enough when they have all their body parts, let alone zombie crickets!

[Shaun J]

What the p00? That thing's gonna give me nightmares... crickets are creepy enough when they have all their body parts, let alone zombie crickets!

lol,its just a crick with an amputated head!

[Shelby]

I didn't feed him to Beetlejuice, so we'll have to see how long he lasts.

I wonder if that little black nub is his brainstem.

[Brandon.O]

I saw a chicken on 'Ripleys Believe it or not' who was going to be used for dinner, they chopped off the head but the chicken was still alive, there was a nerve or somthing that didnt get severed.The chicken was even trying to peck at the ground to feed, i think it died the next few days.Either due to infection or no food.

[Shelby]

Yeah.. that's the first thing I thought of when I found that thing.

There was another incidence of that where the rooster lived months.. maybe even a year or two. It traveled around the country in sideshows and other things. The thing's name was mike or something..

[Shelby]

I remembered right.. it was Mike.

http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/headless_chicken/

[Shelby]

Ok so I checked in on the sucker this morning. He's still alive. The kicker is, he was standing right next to... a cricket head!

I didn't check to see if that was alive too..