It's raining maggots in my house!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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[QUOTE=madmonk28]
Really. There is apparently a dead mongoose or something up in the ceiling and since yesterday, maggots have been falling onto the floor from gaps in the poorly built house I live in. There is also a family of very live, very angry mongooses (mongeese) keeping workmen from finding and removing their fallen brother. It’s not like I can call animal countrol to do something about it, so I just sit in my office, posting on the SDMB and waiting for updates from the front.
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You’d think the dead mongoose smell would put you off your lunch first! So double check the source of maggots, if they are from a sago palm then it’s lunchtime! Clean the maggots then stir fry quickly in hot peanut oil until the skins are crackling and the insides are juicy.

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[QUOTE=madmonk28]
Really. There is apparently a dead mongoose or something up in the ceiling and since yesterday, maggots have been falling onto the floor from gaps in the poorly built house I live in. There is also a family of very live, very angry mongooses (mongeese) keeping workmen from finding and removing their fallen brother. It’s not like I can call animal countrol to do something about it, so I just sit in my office, posting on the SDMB and waiting for updates from the front.
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I’d think the dead mongoose smell would send me out of doors ! So double check the source of maggots, if they are from a sago palm then it’s lunchtime! Clean the maggots then stir fry quickly in hot peanut oil until the skins are crackling and the insides are juicy.

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[QUOTE=madmonk28]
Really. There is apparently a dead mongoose or something up in the ceiling and since yesterday, maggots have been falling onto the floor from gaps in the poorly built house I live in. There is also a family of very live, very angry mongooses (mongeese) keeping workmen from finding and removing their fallen brother. It’s not like I can call animal countrol to do something about it, so I just sit in my office, posting on the SDMB and waiting for updates from the front.
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You have just described my living nightmare.

I would burn the house and never come back.

A friend of mine’s parents were doing a remodel on a small bathroom. The workman pulled down the tile in the shower—

the entire wall was an ant colony. Top to bottom, side to side.

God, I feel them crawling on me now.

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[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen]
God, I feel them crawling on me now.
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Cue high pitched pizzicato violin…

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[QUOTE=Gleena]

<snip> My one triumph that day was that I did not puke, cry or scream. <snip>
Cheers,
G
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For some reason, this line made me laugh hysterically. Thank you for such a great start to my morning! :smiley:

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You know what, I think we should all just calm down and relax. Maybe have a nice bath.…of maggots!

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It was definately a rotting mongoose, we found it yesterday. As for people who wonder that we didn’t smell it: it’s Aceh, I have an open sewer running down my street, there are a lot of competing smells and rotting mongoose isn’t even that high on the list of most disgusting.

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[QUOTE=madmonk28]
It was definately a rotting mongoose, we found it yesterday. As for people who wonder that we didn’t smell it: it’s Aceh, I have an open sewer running down my street, there are a lot of competing smells and rotting mongoose isn’t even that high on the list of most disgusting.
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That is far, far more disgusting (and unhealthy) than a dead animal will ever be.

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Welcome to my world.

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Thanks to this thread, I keep panicking and thinking I have something crawling on me.

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Wotcha doing out there? I forgot.

Man, and I thought the colony of Brazilian cockroaches in my dorm at college were bad. (Former frat house next to former bio building. Said cockroaches escaped when the former bio building was moved. Very little more off-putting than said cockroaches at 3 AM in the communal showers.

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[QUOTE=Gleena]
Ugh, the maggots in the ceiling, yeah.

At my last job, we had a warehouse, with food (sugar, chocolate) near a water source in Sydney, which means rats. No matter how clean you are, you get them.

So naturally, we poisoned them. As my director at the time said, “We poison them, then we act surprised when they die!” Cause they liked to die in the dropped ceiling over the office. In summer. You could locate them by the smell.

One Monday after a long, hot weekend, one died over my office. I called the exterminator, and went to go work in the board room (cause, ugh, the smell) and didn’t realise the exterminator had arrived when I went to duck back into my office to get some papers.

I arrived just in time to see a shower of maggots cascade over him, my desk, and onto my office floor. My one triumph that day was that I did not puke, cry or scream. The smell was HORRENDOUS, and I decided that what I was working on could wait…you know, forever, if needed.

I didn’t eat lunch, though.

GAH!! Yucky. I actually had nightmares about it a couple of times after that. It was just bloody AWFUL.

Cheers,
G
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I pick this one as my favorite story at this point. The cascading shower of maggots while you are untouched is beautiful.

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[QUOTE=E-Sabbath]
Wotcha doing out there? I forgot…
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Foreign aid worker.

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[QUOTE=meenie7]
In re: the roaches, I have to ask…where do you keep dog food in Florida, if you can’t keep it in the house? Is it just because the closet is dark that that happened? I am blissfully ignorant of these repulsive creatures.
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Years of experience lead us to keeping it in a sealed plastic tote. Bring the bag home from the store, dump it into the tote, put the lid back on.

And another thing: every house here has roaches in it. Whether you see them or not, there are palmetto bugs inside. And they do fly, quite readily.

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[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer]
Years of experience lead us to keeping it in a sealed plastic tote. Bring the bag home from the store, dump it into the tote, put the lid back on.

And another thing: every house here has roaches in it. Whether you see them or not, there are palmetto bugs inside. And they do fly, quite readily.
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Oh yeah. They have a “frisky season” when they are more likely to fly than others. I don’t know if it’s a breeding season because I figure they breed all the time. It just seems like when you see a flier in your house you’re likely to see more in the next few days, so it’s either some kind of roach ritual or a plot against the puny humans.

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I think I probably previously mentioned my “Night of One Million Cockroaches” in Hawaii at some point or another. Like those scenes in The Craft, except in real life (and just roaches. A million of them. All over the house for one night for no reason my prepubescent brain could fathom at the time). I still wonder if it was a nightmare sometimes - but no, my brother confirms it.

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[QUOTE=Wile E]
Oh yeah. They have a “frisky season” when they are more likely to fly than others. I don’t know if it’s a breeding season because I figure they breed all the time. It just seems like when you see a flier in your house you’re likely to see more in the next few days, so it’s either some kind of roach ritual or a plot against the puny humans.
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The worst is anticipation of their flight. Like when you see one crawling around on the ceiling, and you don’t want to go under it because it could take to wing and urrrrgh. I just hate the way they fly, in little spurts and all over the place.

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[QUOTE=Zsofia]
The worst is anticipation of their flight. Like when you see one crawling around on the ceiling, and you don’t want to go under it because it could take to wing and urrrrgh. I just hate the way they fly, in little spurts and all over the place.
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And always toward the most creeped out squeamish person in the room.

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[QUOTE=madmonk28]
This could turn out to be a very revolting and yet very interesting thread if others have stories like ours.
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Every summer I see a few “maggot cases”. Animals that are typically chained outdoors and suffer myiasis (maggots). Often the outcome of neglect, they are the type of cases that cause my receptionists/techs to lose their lunch.

They are usually older animals with multiple preexisting health problems. Imagine your grandparent chained to a tree 24/7 and think about the likely outcome. They often start out with diarrhea that soaks the fur around the perineum. Fly eggs are laid, then hatch. Often on presentation you can see the rippling effect of the subcutaneous, crawling maggots.

I charge a good bit to work on these cases. You can imagine why.

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For a lighter note “Human Slaves in an Insect Nation” - Bill Bailey