DEAD BUGS FLY AT ANNUAL `CRICKET SPIT' CONTEST

DEAD BUGS FLY AT ANNUAL `CRICKET SPIT' CONTEST

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (Wireless Flash) -- What can you do with a dead cricket? How about seeing how far you can spit it. That's what's going on in Indiana this weekend at Purdue University's annual "Cricket Spitting Contest." Bug-loving college students will go toe-to-toe on a special regulation field to see who can spit one of the creepy crawlies the farthest. Contest organizer Tom Turpin says the best cricket spitters tend to lather the critters with lots of saliva and shoot them out at a 45 degree angle. So far, the world record is 32 feet, 1.25 inches, set in 1998 by an insect collector from Madison, Wisconsin.