How Come Roaches are Always Upside Down when they die?

[curling]

I mean how do they get like that do they flip over or what?

 

[string_bean00]

Classic Curling thread.

 

[HS Lifter]

Classic Curling thread.

indeed.

 

[AAP]

I have always wondered the same myself. WTF?

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

people usually do the same. not sure why?

 

[Zebo]

Cause when they stand up and yell "RAID!", they then fall over backwards and die.

Come on guys, get with the program.......

 

[curling]

people usually do the same. not sure why?

So you are saying when people die or are dying they just flip over real quick before they croak. So in essense we are no different than cockroaches? Maybe Tony Montana was right in "Scarface".

 

[Y_lifter]

Ask the new cleaning lady bro..

 

[RADAR]

When you die you go into the light.....................now how are you gonna go into the light with your face burried in the ground, you have to flip to see where the light is.


I'm so smart!

RADAR

 

[biteme]

I'm not really sure, but my curiousity had been peaked. I must find out.

 

[gregory]

The ones left alive turn their fallen comrads over for dignity and as a final good buy. it's their culture, like us burying our dead or driving over dead squirrels to "blend" them with the asphalt.

 

[slickdadd]

I've seen some dead ones not on their back. Theory disproven. I win.

 

[Whiskey]

they are wanting one last fuck

Whiskey

 

[jay1]

They're full from eating all my cereal

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

when they die, the 'muscles' atrophy. all the legs pull toward the inside, thus making a smaller base to balance on. enough atrophy and they keel over to the back. satisfied?

 

[gregory]

Roaches have muscles?

 

[JohnRobHolmes]

i forget what the little strands are called. note i put 'muscles'. they dont work quite like ours. bad memory. any bug doctors here?

 

[curling]

when they die, the 'muscles' atrophy. all the legs pull toward the inside, thus making a smaller base to balance on. enough atrophy and they keel over to the back. satisfied?

Nope because I turned one over that dead and laying on his back and then to my surprise he legs started moving. I though wow. Anyway he eventually stopped moving and stayed right side up. Now this morning when I came to work I checked on my experiment and he was upside down again. I am very curious now. Somebody has got to know this.

 

[WODIN]

Lmfao!!

 

[Y_lifter]

Take your pick from the below 411



http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/zoo00/zoo00289.htm

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_024.html

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/info/faq/ask_roaches.htm

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1068854399.Zo.r.html

 

[Robert Jan]

Its cuz they hope to get laid just once more before they die

I know roaches do doggy style

but its a funny thought