It would have made more sense if I had killed them all, but I didn’t. Now everyone is suffering.


The idea came to me when I was still testing insecticides. 100,000 flies would be released into a room in which fly spray had been used. Usually one or two would have an inbuilt resistance and live. We had to kill these with a swatter, as we feared that if they got out and bred, their resistance would spread through the fly population, rendering our product useless.


When the plant shut down, I decided to do some experimenting of my own. I took 100 locusts and used low doses of insecticide on them. The ones that lived, I bred and repeated the process on. Again and again.


My redundancy money lasted 3 years, by which time I had locusts that were damn near indestructible. I was ready to blackmail the world. I sent a batch to America in the post, to prove my claims, along with demands for cash. But the packaging came apart and they escaped.


That was 5 years ago, and they still haven’t found a way to kill them. America, the supposed ‘Bread Basket’ of the world loses 80% of its crops to the offspring of those that I bred, and is on its knees. Africa is desolate. There is nothing to feed the cattle or people now. We thought Aids was hell on Earth, how naive we were.


And the Food Wars in Russia and Europe have reduced this continent to one inhabited by savages - peopled by those ready to kill for a loaf of bread.


You might wonder what I was going to demand from America. Half a million Dollars was what I wanted – yet look what I’ve got in it’s place.