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Letter: One tough roach

Published 21 August 2013

From Val Sigstedt

The first time I heard about the fly-in-the-urinal means of manipulating behaviour (22 June, p 32) was a story about a bar with a cure for unruly drunks. The bartender would wait until a particularly bad boy went to the toilet. There was a bare wire strung across the back of the urinal, and the bartender had a way to let a live cockroach run out on it. Of course it instantly became an irresistible moving target, but the wire was charged, and the miscreant got instant enlightenment.
Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania, US

Issue no. 2931 published 24 August 2013

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