Car parked at Hawaii airport infested with cockroaches

June 30 (UPI) -- A Hawaii man whose car spent a week parked at Kona International Airport said he was shocked to find the vehicle crawling with hundreds of cockroaches.

Black Howell said in a Facebook post he drove the car home from the airport Monday and noticed the front end was covered in the insects.

The post included a video of the roaches crawling around the BMW's grill area and under the hood. He said he also found an 8-inch centipede.

"I noticed these things crawling out of the crack between the car frame and the hood," Howell told KITV.

Howell said he retrieved a can of insecticide and went to work ridding the car of cockroaches.

"It was incredible. I opened up the hood and they kept coming out and I kept spraying," Howell said. "There had to have been a thousand bug corpses in the driveway and we washed it down into the gutter."

Howell he keeps his car clean and does not allow eating inside the vehicle. He said he suspects his choice of parking space -- under a large tree -- was to blame for the infestation.

"We were driving around that parking lot for 10 minutes and finding nothing. We found this spot and now we know why it was available," he said.

Exterminator Ralph Pascual said auto owners who make similar discoveries should call in the professionals.

"Because they may harbor somewhere deep inside, where you're not going to get them." Pascual said.

Howell said he is still finding dead roaches in the car's nooks and crannies.

"I joked with somebody that if they had actually been in the interior I probably would have had to set the thing on fire," he said. "At this point when you've seen what I saw, every surface I look at I see bugs, so. I'm definitely paranoid being inside it."