Los Angeles Attacked by Giant Locusts!!!

I thought I was crazy the other day when I saw one of these too! Except, the locust was hanging out outside my window screen. I saw it out of the corner of my eye when I woke up and took a second look once I realized how big this thing was..

i'm in burbank too and just saw a somewhat flattened one of these on the sidewalk out in front of my place a couple of days ago.

i would not have been able to handle seeing one INSIDE though. *shudder*

Ewww! It's like the plagues from Passover come to life. So gross!

My Friend E. found one in her house recently - apparently it was just huge and omninous, almost as though it'd been practicing being mean. Just kind of hanging out, loitering if you will, on her living room wall, glaring at her.

Let's hope they're not the result of an insane breeding experiment between north american grasshoppers and African grasshoppers.

huh. and here I was thinking that this year we had exceptionally few grasshoppers.

I live in Temple City (between Pasadena & Arcadia) and we normally have tons of grasshoppers all summer. A real pain. But this year we've had a lot less ... we only have to squish a few each week (as opposed to a few each day in other years)

I don't know whether it's a result of our aggressive attempts to squash them in the last two years, or whether it's this year's weird weather, or what.

Ah, I remember the summer of Cicadas when I was a kid outside of Chicago. Cicadas everywhere you stepped. crunch, crunch, crunch.

It sounded like there were waves outside, but it wasn't water, it was buzzin'.

I see that too saltmine.
Elise, I hope you don't have to hide in the bathroom again!
Great article!
Shouldn't this be on Digg?
The title of the article screams click here!

hmmm, I think I read something about that guy and his mates once....I must have that book some where around here. Yes, Even Me!

Ah, here it is.

"The Sounding of the Fifth Trumpet
Revelation 8:13-9:12

As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice" "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels. The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God upon their foreheads. They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. During those days, men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lion's teeth. They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon. The first woe is past; two other woes are yet to come."

Well, the world is coming to an end after all!