This article in The Guardian is rather amusing. Except it cost 30 people their jobs so it isn’t. The gist: a cockroach crawled across the news desk during Turkmenistan’s 9pm news show, Vatan. This went unnoticed by the news staff and the show was repeated at 11pm. Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the country’s president, didn’t see the funny side and fired 30 people from the main state news channel. At least it wasn’t a cooking show!

The Guardian includes this lovely bit of information:

“A cockroach will live after decapitation for several weeks before starving to death; the severed head survives several hours.”