Jon Yaeger wrote:

I used to live in Hawaii, where roaches were the state pet. They grew to
enormous size, and were bold, too . . . .


Biggest one I ever saw was at a roadhouse in the Northern
Territory I threw part of a chicken wing on the ground and this roach
ran out and dragged it backwards under his rock. I wasn't going to lift
the rock: I heard it hiss at me.