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Students Create Memorial For Fallen Cockroach

Texas A&M students show their love for a lowly bug.

By Rijndael

Published 9 years ago

Texas A&M students show their love for a lowly bug.

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A professor at Texas A&M University shared a photo of a dead cockroach which had been laying in the Anthropology building's stairwell for two weeks because no one wanted to clear it up. An enterprising person had made the roach a small shrine

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The next day, the professor returned to find some small additions made to the shrine.

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Later that day, there were even more tributes...
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"There is a candle now and a little coffin for the carcass... And for the record, I had nothing to do with the genesis of this memorial," the professor wrote.

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...then the coffin became a funeral pyre.
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The memorial had grown huge by the next week
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The sign above reads: "Rosie the Roach will be with us until Tuesday, December 14th when a celebration of her life will be conducted. Food and drinks will be served in the main office during the afternoon."

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Rosie's popularity grew, and college officials let her lay in state for longer than expected.
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Rosie finally had to be put to rest.

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