When is a drunk a dead drunk? When it is a drunk cockroach of course!

I have just discovered a very interesting way of dealing with this pesky scourge which has been tormenting humans ever since the beginning of civilization. Just like everyone else I am sure, I do have my fair dose of having these creepy crawlies scurrying around my kitchen, bedroom, sitting room, dining area and in fact in just about every nook and cranny of my home.

I have tried insecticides, poison cereals, poison chalks, fly paper, cockroach traps, Oh you name it. In fact I think I have tried just about everything available in an effort to eliminate these six legged nuisance. But just like those mindless suicide bombers, they just kept on coming back even if it is just to get killed and thrown into the trash bin.

A few days ago, my wife cooked one of my favourite dish for dinner. It was chicken stewed with rice wine. She opened a bottle of the sweet wine, used half of it to prepare the dish but forgot to put the cap back on and left it standing on the kitchen shelf.

The next morning, my son was the first to notice the unusually large number of dead roaches on the kitchen floor and he quickly vacuumed the mess. However when we returned from work that evening, we saw more roaches belly up randomly around the kitchen and a few in the living room. Quick to rid our house of any evidence of a masacre, we left it at that until another day when we began to notice that there were less and less of those illegal squatters popping up in places where you would least want them.

Then my wife noted the opened bottle of rice wine and nearly threw up when she saw that it was packed with dozens of dead cockroaches with others still trying to get in. Somehow, the cockroaches seemed to like the taste of the rice wine and they just couldn't get enough of it and ended up 'dead drunk'.

Needless to say the first item on my next shoping list was a fresh bottle of rice wine. Half of it will go to my favourite dish and the other half will become the roaches' favourite drink!

This curious insect has lived on this planet millions of years longer than us humans, but they sure are not any wiser on what's good for them. Just give them a bit of that fire water and you will get them exactly where you would want them, belly up on the kitchen floor. Dead!

Now if only there is a way to bring a few thousand bottles to Iraq...