One of my students confessed to having killed a praying mantis when she was young-- and she referred to this bug-slaughter as "committing a felony"-- and I can remember hearing the same thing when I was a kid: that it is against the law to kill a praying mantis, but according to the myth-busting website snopes.com, this is an urban legend . . . so if one of those large green alien-headed critters surprises you while you're on the john and you smash it with a magazine, you don't have to chop the body into little pieces and sneak it down to the Pine Barrens for a a clandestine burial.
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Your title led me to believe we'd be discussing this epic television episode:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0522925/
why do i follow your links? why? why?
Cause.
the chopping and the sneaking are my favorite parts.
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