> Reuters (Tel Aviv)
> 
> An Israeli woman's fight with a stubborn cockroach put her husband in
> the hospital with burns, a broken pelvis and broken ribs, the
> Jerusalem Post newspaper reported yesterday.
> 
> The woman, frightened by the insect when she found it in their living
> room, stepped on it, threw it in a toilet and sprayed a full can of
> insecticide on it when it refused to die.
> 
> Her husband came home from work, went to the toilet and lit a
> cigarette.  When he threw the cigarette butt into the bowl, the
> insecticide fumes ignited, "seriously burning his sensitive parts,"
> the Post wrote.
> 
> When paramedics were called to the home in Tel Aviv, they laughed so
> hard when they learned what had happened that they dropped the
> stretcher down the stairs, breaking the unidentified man's pelvis and
> ribs.