An Amazon spokesperson debunked an exterminator’s theory after he told a woman that her cockroach infestation was caused by a package from the online retailer.
Niamh Zocco, 32, moved from Ireland to South Florida and has been sharing her trip across the United States on her TikTok account.
While her page usually chronicles her life in Fort Lauderdale, the content creator recently took to the video-sharing platform to share that. his house had been invaded by cockroaches.
He showed the extent of the infestation by stating that a pest control expert alleged that the dozens of cockroaches came from an Amazon package.
Now, a spokesperson has shut down the theory while speaking to DailyMail.com.
Niamh Zocco, 32, moved from Ireland to Florida with her family and has been sharing her trip across the United States on her TikTok account.
She issued a dire warning about opening packages inside her home after her residence became infested with cockroaches, prompting Amazon to shut down the theory (file image)
“There is no evidence to suggest this had anything to do with an Amazon package,” the spokesperson said.
In the mother clip, She said: “I returned my entire kitchen on a Saturday morning because we opened the wrong Amazon package at our house and had to fumigate every nook and cranny.”
In the video, which has been viewed more than 740,000 times, Niamh reveals she was forced to call the pest control company after cockroaches took over her home when she opened her parcel.
The video showed the content creator putting her glassware back into her cabinets.
She captioned it: “Open your packages outside.”
in a tracking videoNiamh revealed that she and her husband have an exterminator who comes to their house once a month anyway, since they live in South Florida and “there are always some bugs” trying to get into their house.
“Just before a service was due, we saw little (little cockroaches),” he explained in the video.
“Then within a week I’d get up in the middle of the night to get a drink of water or something and they’d be running across our kitchen counter.”
“There is no evidence to suggest this had anything to do with an Amazon package,” the spokesperson said. Pictured is a still from Niamh’s TikTok video.
People flooded the comments section and expressed their shock and disgust over the disturbing incident.
Niamh said the exterminators told her they would put a ‘Band-Aid’ where they would gently treat some areas, which they said might resolve it because she had caught them from the beginning.
If that didn’t work, pest experts told him he would have to remove everything from his house so it could be fumigated.
“That’s exactly what we ended up doing,” he explained. to Newsweek.
‘It was a nightmare – we had to remove everything, clean every inch and then put it all back a few days later. The whole ordeal was exhausting.
She admitted she was horrified when she learned the creepy crawlers could have come from eggs that were inside a package that was delivered to her home.
“The guy who was servicing us said it’s very common to get them from Amazon packages,” he said, jokingly adding that he gets “10 packages from Amazon” every other day.
The mother admitted that she thought the infestation could also be due to travel and that she “doesn’t rule it out” as the cause.
“I hope it never happens to anyone because it wasn’t fun,” he concluded the clip.
According Defense against pests“Cockroaches can easily be introduced into the home on food and packaging purchased from infested shops, and also on second-hand items, particularly electrical appliances, that have previously been in an infested property.”
People flooded the comments section and expressed their shock and disgust over the disturbing incident.
One person said: “Well, a new anxiety has been unlocked.”
Someone else commented: ‘I think this may have been the answer to stopping online shopping!’
Another user stated: ‘Amazon boxes don’t come to my house for this reason. I opened a box of cat food and two cockroaches came out.
One user commented: ‘Yes, I definitely won’t be opening boxes inside anymore!’
