BRISBANE, Australia, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- Hundreds of Australia Day revelers converged on a Brisbane hotel for one of the holiday's most unusual traditions: cockroach races.
The 35th Annual Australia Day Cockroach Races were held Tuesday at the Story Bridge Hotel in Brisbane, with some participants bringing in their own roaches and others paying $3.51 each -- $5 Australian -- to purchase roaches shipped in from RMIT University in Melbourne.