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A cockroach just woke me up

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Kwixotik said:
If there's one, there's probably but not necessarily two. If there's two, there is most definitely a million at minimum crawling all through the house. You're fucked, man, I'm sorry.

Edit: I've got a gross as fuck cockroach story. My girlfriend and I went to Sonic, I got a burger and she got a chicken sandwich. I eat my burger on the way back. She eats the chicken sandwich when we get to my place. Couple bites into the chicken sandwich, SHE FINDS A LIVE MOTHERFUCKING COCKROACH IN THE MOTHERFUCKING SANDWICH. Obviously, she kills the thing and subsequently pukes her guts out. We call Sonic and we're like what the fuck, and their response is to offer us ANOTHER FUCKING CHICKEN SANDWICH WHAT THE FUUUUUCK
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ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I feel gross inside now.
 
He's waiting for you on the bed.

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The second one was attempting to assassinate you for killing his comrade. I would escape from that dwelling if you value your life.
 
Sounds like the brown kind of Roach, the big black ones have a hard time climbing stuff. The brown kind is the bad kind. The black ones don't seem so bad as they are not as numerous as the brown climbing kind that can get into every little crevice.
 
Alcotholic said:
HOLY MOTHER FUCKING SHIT.
I'm laying here on the couch surfing gaf and one lands on my arm.
I caught it between two pillows, but I couldn't move to get a fresh barrier, because it would run away and I couldn't crush it between the pillows, because who wants to clean that shit. Thank god I found some paper within arm's reach. I crushed it's head like tipped before.
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Better a cockroach than a bed bug, because then you would be hosting new houseguests back at your home.
 
The house I lived in when I was little was infected with cockroaches. Every time I slept I could hear them skittering around under my bed. Pretty sure those experiences scarred me for life.
 
Score another point for Canada. The only time I've seen a cockroach in person is in a tank, at a pet shop. Seriously, I am not living where they live.
 
Kwixotik said:
Edit: I've got a gross as fuck cockroach story. My girlfriend and I went to Sonic, I got a burger and she got a chicken sandwich. I eat my burger on the way back. She eats the chicken sandwich when we get to my place. Couple bites into the chicken sandwich, SHE FINDS A LIVE MOTHERFUCKING COCKROACH IN THE MOTHERFUCKING SANDWICH. Obviously, she kills the thing and subsequently pukes her guts out. We call Sonic and we're like what the fuck, and their response is to offer us ANOTHER FUCKING CHICKEN SANDWICH WHAT THE FUUUUUCK
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Yeah well I was kinda hungry but not anymore
 
Kwixotik said:
If there's one, there's probably but not necessarily two. If there's two, there is most definitely a million at minimum crawling all through the house. You're fucked, man, I'm sorry.

Edit: I've got a gross as fuck cockroach story. My girlfriend and I went to Sonic, I got a burger and she got a chicken sandwich. I eat my burger on the way back. She eats the chicken sandwich when we get to my place. Couple bites into the chicken sandwich, SHE FINDS A LIVE MOTHERFUCKING COCKROACH IN THE MOTHERFUCKING SANDWICH. Obviously, she kills the thing and subsequently pukes her guts out. We call Sonic and we're like what the fuck, and their response is to offer us ANOTHER FUCKING CHICKEN SANDWICH WHAT THE FUUUUUCK
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Psht, going to Sonic for anything other than their drinks.

It's like you want to die.
 
Mechazawa said:
Psht, going to Sonic for anything other than their drinks.

It's like you want to die.
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But the commercials are funny :(


On-topic: I've lived in Brooklyn for 90% of my life and I still get a chill when I see a creepy crawly. Fortunately my current apartment is nearly pest free, but I recently got a pup so I'm afraid they'll show up eventually, since he's always edge wetting his pad.
 
The cockroach species indigenous to my town (Germanica probably?) seems to really really hate bay laurel leaves. I put some leaves in all rooms from June to September, it works great. There's no living thing I hate more than cockroaches. Laurel leaves are a godsend.
 
What's the big deal? It's just a cockroach. They don't bite, chase, of even try to bother you. When I see one I usually just swipe them into a plastic cup and carry them outside. No need to kill such a harmless insect.
 
Alcotholic said:
So I'm cat sitting for this lady. She's got a pretty nice place in Brooklyn; it's clean and tidy. I've been sleeping at her place for the past week and just tonight I've had 2 cockroach encounters.

I saw the first one tonight right after I answer a phone call. My dad had called to see how I was doing. I was laying on the bed when I tilt my head back and I see this massive fucking beast crawling down the wall. At first I thought it was a spider, it was so huge! My dad heard all of it: "Holy shit! What the fuck is that thing?! Hang on one sec, this is intense." I'm freaking out looking for a paper towel or something and he's telling me about his day. All I have on my mind is how to get to this beast. I have my weapon in hand and head back into the bedroom- I see it scutter down the wall behind this rug-mat-thing taped to the wall. I guess it's art or something. I tapped the corner it was under and falls down right on to the pillow "Holy fuck! this is fast!". My dad is still talking about his day.
It runs across the bed and it stops. I stood there looking at it seeing if it would jump at me or something. I doesnt move. So with reflexes like some bug, I snatch it. The only thing separating me from it is the barrier paper towel. I show no mercy and crush it's life.

So my night continues. I watch a movie, "You're Next"- pretty good, you should check it out. Then I go to sleep. I don't know how long I was asleep for, but I feel this thing land on my thigh and I freak out. My hands automatically start brushing away whatever is there and I fall out of bed. I turn on the light and there is another cockroach in the room. I attempted to kill it with a wicker thing, but it disappeared. Now I can't sleep and I'm not going into the bedroom.

I'm pretty sure they want my blood.
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Welcome to NY housing.

Is this your first Roach encounter?
 
I have a huge phobia of those American Cockroaches, we call them waterbugs in NYC.

They're everywhere in the Summer. I walked passed a huge pile of them with my mom when I was a kid and it certainly left an impression.
 
Skiesofwonder said:
What's the big deal? It's just a cockroach. They don't bite, chase, of even try to bother you. When I see one I usually just swipe them into a plastic cup and carry them outside. No need to kill such a harmless insect.
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Wow I'm the exact opposite. I spray poison all over the place, inject gel that kills their babies into crevices and whatnot, and put water traps in the garage. The water lures them and when they die if they have any babies inside it kills them too.
 
Wow... my intern just told me an extremely similar story (in bed, roach on leg, etc) not 10 seconds before I opened this thread. I feel like I should be worried.
 
I considered staying the night at the place I'm cat sitting at, but I decided, "Fuck that" after I attempted to catch one cockroach 2 times and it got away. I'm going home tonight. I need my sleep. I was a zombie at work today.
 
Alcotholic said:
I considered staying the night at the place I'm cat sitting at, but I decided, "Fuck that" after I attempted to catch one cockroach 2 times and it got away. I'm going home tonight. I need my sleep. I was a zombie at work today.
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There has got to be a way you can poison some of the apartment without endangering the cat with chemicals. Make sure the apartment is clean and dry. Especially dry, roaches need water far more than food. Try putting a water trap on a counter the cat cannot get to.

As a last resort you can sleep in a sleeping bag with some netting mesh so you can breathe while still blocking the insects from your body.
 
Sub_Level said:
There has got to be a way you can poison some of the apartment without endangering the cat with chemicals. Make sure the apartment is clean and dry. Especially dry, roaches need water far more than food. Try putting a water trap on a counter the cat cannot get to.

As a last resort you can sleep in a sleeping bag with some netting mesh so you can breathe while still blocking the insects from your body.
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It's not my apartment. I talked to the woman I'm cat sitting for and she apologized, because it's the first she has ever heard about this. She's going to call management tomorrow.
 
The house I grew up in had cockroaches. I hated it in the summer. Most of the time they were downstairs, a few of them, chilling out in the kitchen, scurrying around on the floor. But sometimes one of them would sneak in under my door... ugh. When I'd see one, I'd turn on all the lights, jam a towel under the door, move my bed away from the walls, tuck the bed skirt between the mattress and go on full alert mode.

One time, as a kid, I trapped one under a glass cup and subjected it to psychological torture via a mini rave flashing glow stick thing. We had the reddish brown ones, the long brown flying ones, and the big black tank-looking ones.
 
Wow! i remember my cockroach days. I would rather face a fuckin lion in an alley than a huge ass cockroach. In fact in school when I was living at this place with roaches, I said fuck it and slept in my car. Nothing creeps me out more than roaches
 
animlboogy said:
They are absolutely not harmless at infestation levels. Obviously not all types do that, but the ones that are living in cities are really bad for your health. Also they can't walk backwards so they can get stuck crawling into your various holes.
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I didn't need to know that.

animlboogy said:
This isn't like having a couple of those big flying ones around. This is pouring a bowl of cereal and having to look for roaches, having the air quality in your house decline, and worrying about covering your mouth, nostrils and ears at night.

The only thing worse is bedbugs.
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I've had bedbugs before. It's insanely psychologically damaging. I could barely sleep for months. Every time a leg hair twitched I would freak.
 
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