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Photos by James
S. Wood,
The Arizona Daily Star
Tuesday, June30,
1998
The biggest roach in Arizona Pest Control's
contest came in at longer than 2 inches
and was worth $1,000 to Domingo Ramas Jr.
Nancy Goermar and her son Ben, 3, examine
the entries. A roach released with special
bar codes and worth $50,000 wasn't found.
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Monday June 8, 1998
Tom Collins
Roach
Bounty earns owner of pest control firm
world fame
The "roach
guy" is world famous.
Since May 6, when he sent 100 marked roaches
into the world with a $50,000 bounty on
their heads, Arizona Pest Control owner
Bruce Tennenbaum has been interviewed by
a German television station, a Dutch radio
station and Comedy Cental's Daily Show.
News of Tennenbaum's contest has been carried
in the Los Angeles Times and the New York
Post.
"The media
around the world are crazy" Tennenbaum
said.
Despite the publicity,
Tennenbaum has only received 50 roaches,
none of which bore the bar-code mark that
could score the grand prize. The brand
is only readable in special ultra-violet
light.
Tennenbaum said
he received one fraudulent entry.
With about three weeks until the contest's
June 26 deadline. Tennenbaum said
he expects to see about 2,000 roaches turned
in to the company, 1127 N. Rook Ave.
"This week,
things will real get heated,"
Tennenbaum said. None of the roaches
were placed in sewers, but rather in 100
places that aren't hard to reach, Tennenbaum
said.
"The best thing
in he world would be for someone to win
that $50,000, he said.
Roaches are due
by 5 p.m. June 26, and a drawing will be
held June 29 at the Tucson Sidewinders baseball
game to decide which roach is worth the
$5000 a year for 10 years prize. Any
marked roach that is turned in wins $100
and the longest roach, marked or not, scores
$1000.
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The Journal of Indonesia today
Catch
Cockroach, earn $50,000
Tucson, Arizona:
The bounty in this Wild West city is
US $50,000. Dead or alive.
But not too squished.
Those are the rules
drawn up by a Tucson pest-control company
that is offering a $50,000 reward for the
person who catches one of 100 specially
marked cockroaches it will spread around
town yesterday in an advertising stunt.
"There's already been a citywide panic
and we haven't even started yet. People
are going nuts" said Bruce Tennenbaum,
owner of Arizona Pest Control.
Take local government
officials. They've warned people not
to even try searching in the sewers after
receiving a flood of telephone calls seeking
permission.
The promotion will
get under way with a University of Arizona
professor releasing 100 American roaches
in 100 different spots around town.
The roaches must be captured and returned
to Tennenbaum's shop where they will be
put on ice until June 26. Why freeze
them? "They smell after a while"
he said.
The winning $50,000
number will be revealed at a minor league
baseball game. Everyone who finds
one of the bar-coded roaches gets at least
$100.
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