Who wants to kill a million-dollar cockroach?

One bar-coded roach out of 350 released by promoters is worth a million dollars    VIDEO CNN's Jeanne Moos sniffs out the story Real 28K 80K Windows Media 28K 80K

July 6, 2000
Web posted at: 2:32 p.m. EDT (1832 GMT)

MIDLAND PARK, New Jersey -- Stop! Don't crush that cockroach. At least not until you see whether there's a bar code on its back.

Seems a group of American exterminators looking for publicity tagged 350 of the critters and set them loose for bounty-hunters. One roach in particular could make you rich faster than you could say "Regis Philbin."

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