Oscar and the critter
08
August
8/8/2008:
(Hey, that sounds like a great animated movie title!)
Anyway, here’s your weekly look at the Hoboken411 Mascot (my dog Oscar).
Last week we were walking along Washington Street, and something caught his attention. A roach on the street! How often do you see that?
Anyway, it seemed to have come running out of either Navarra nail salon or the Charrito’s Mexican Restaurant next door.
I did not let him eat the bug, in case you’re wondering.
Hoboken, Oscar, pets, dogs, insects
1. esw7178 | August 8th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Which Charritos?
2. yourname | August 8th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I guess Charritos doesn’t advertise on H411?
3. tiffany2288 | August 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Navaroo’s Nail Salon is on Washington Street between 10th/11th so it must be the Charrito’s uptown….although it could have come frome someone’s garbage too.
Pretty gross though..did Oscar eat it?
4. johnlennon | August 8th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Good- you guys should stop going to Charitos- so I can get a table!
5. bsrm | August 8th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I saw a roach on the sidewalk yesterday but can’t remember where…I think maybe Washington and 4th? That was a first for me. Incidentally I happened to have dinner at Charrito’s last night (downtown) which was delicious. Love that guacamole…
6. kooky kat | August 8th, 2008 at 11:49 am
I saw a rat in the street outside the sewer near my office yesterday. I have to assume this roach came from garbage, or bottles that were on the street for pickup. Most of us do know that most restaurants in town probably have some sort of something that’s not pleasant running around their kitchen, right? As long as it’s not in my food, I am down with it.
Oscar is so cute and inquisitive though. I love that picture!
7. RUHOBO | August 8th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Charritos better give H411 some discounts before he takes pictures of rats and say it ran out of charritos.
8. Biffy B For Mayor | August 8th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
funny…i was thinking of taking some of the posts and showing them to some of the advertisers…
9. DietCokeGal | August 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Oscar looks like a lion…the roach is foul…
10. trueblue11 | August 8th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
it may not be a roach, this year happens to be an emergence year for the 17 year cycle ciccaida in the northeast. I’ve seen a few of them already, they’re very big and thick and have greenish wings.
11. elainetyger | August 8th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
It looks like an American cockroach, aka waterbug. You see them a lot in basements where the sump pits are not completely covered with a solid lid or a fine mesh screen or where flooding has occurred. They live in the sewers and come up when access out of the sewer is available, especially when there is waste lying around it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach
If you live in a flood zone and they creep you out, you can get the glue boards sold for mice and make a circle around the spot where they are coming up into your basement. In our house (in a flood zone), they come up once in a while after the heavy rains and become instant cat toys.
12. escaped68 | August 8th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Its a roach,i have cicaidas in my yard and they don’t look like that.
13. elainetyger | August 8th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
It is an American cockroach aka waterbug. I tried to post the wikipedia link to that but I guess that made the comment get blocked for now.
It lives in the sewer and comes up after heavy rain or flooding. You might find them in your basement now and then if you don’t completely cover or screen your sump pit.
14. bornandrazedinhobo | August 9th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I guess the Mexican food at Charritos is really authentic! With the roach you feel like you are really eating in Mexico!
I’ll think twice about drinking the water next time there!
15. nacholibre | August 9th, 2008 at 11:23 am
I would entitle that photo, “American cockroach / Oscar, foreground” circa 2008