Which would you rather find

[Shadow Wolf]

Blow up the place and leave

It would be less traumatizing. I don't know if a roach infestation is, but bed bugs had me checking out and investing every little thing I thought I saw move. That itself didn't last long, but hearing someone mentioning they have or had bed bugs sends me into a mild panic (my encounter was also made worse by the fact I had no idea what they were and mistook the bites for a rash and realized too late what was going on).

 

[ChristineM]

In your house?A 1000 roaches or a person you didnt know about? It's a question that ive found repeatedly on facebook and no one specifies anything just 1000 roaches or a person. The person could be dead or alive, child or old person with dementia, serial killer, or just a homeless guy taking a nap. The roaches could be wingless and small or huge with big *** wings. This question is driving me nuts.

Never had cockroaches (perhaps we're lucky) but where i live people walk into the house all the time. Got used to it now but when we first moved here and a woman walked in, looked around, nodded and left was a strange feeling. She was a nosey neighbour who wanted to see what we were doing with the place.

Anyway, people are (usually) much easier to get rid of than vermin.

 

[SalixIncendium]

Doesn’t matter. I’d move.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

A man in Louisville burned his house down over a bedbug infestation. LoL

I don't blame him. Heat is how you get rid of them, and if you don't have the money for am exterminator to properly do it (which includes multiple treatments), then it really is just burn it down or a lengthy, systematic procedure that involes sealing doors and vents and tightly wrapping things up in order to wipe them out.
But I still remember when I got the last one. The little bugger was taking nibbles while I slept and running and would be hidden and gone by the time I woke up and looking that way, but one morning it wasn't fast enough and I finally caught it and killed it and ended it after many months (that alone took weeks to catch since they don't have to eat much or often just to survive).

 

[Rachel Rugelach]

In your house?A 1000 roaches or a person you didnt know about? It's a question that ive found repeatedly on facebook and no one specifies anything just 1000 roaches or a person. The person could be dead or alive, child or old person with dementia, serial killer, or just a homeless guy taking a nap. The roaches could be wingless and small or huge with big *** wings. This question is driving me nuts.

Can the person be dead and a ghost? Coz that would be coooool.

Roaches are NOT cool.

 

[VoidCat]

Can the person be dead and a ghost? Coz that would be coooool.

Roaches are NOT cool.

Its a person they dont specify. Hell for all we know the roaches might be able to talk...

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Can the person be dead and a ghost? Coz that would be coooool.

Roaches are NOT cool.

Its a person they dont specify. Hell for all we know the roaches might be able to talk...

Roach ghosts would be really scary.

Imagine someone trying to cast one out of a house. It'd be impossible.

 

[We Never Know]

In your house?A 1000 roaches or a person you didnt know about? It's a question that ive found repeatedly on facebook and no one specifies anything just 1000 roaches or a person. The person could be dead or alive, child or old person with dementia, serial killer, or just a homeless guy taking a nap. The roaches could be wingless and small or huge with big *** wings. This question is driving me nuts.

When you live alone and wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, on your way you step on something. Do you know what the worst thing to step on is?

Its not a leggo, its not a roach.....
Its someone else's foot

 

[Debater Slayer]

You could have made the choice between 1,000 roaches and 1,000 strangers and I would have still chosen the latter.

(Maybe not, but I would hate dealing with roaches anywhere near my place.)

 

[JustGeorge]

A man in Louisville burned his house down over a bedbug infestation. LoL

I can't say I blame him. I've had them twice; I know that frantic feeling.

It would be less traumatizing. I don't know if a roach infestation is, but bed bugs had me checking out and investing every little thing I thought I saw move. That itself didn't last long, but hearing someone mentioning they have or had bed bugs sends me into a mild panic (my encounter was also made worse by the fact I had no idea what they were and mistook the bites for a rash and realized too late what was going on).

Same. I went to the doctor for the rashes, even. I can't believe they didn't piece it together when I told them how they showed up in straight lines...

I don't blame him. Heat is how you get rid of them, and if you don't have the money for am exterminator to properly do it (which includes multiple treatments), then it really is just burn it down or a lengthy, systematic procedure that involes sealing doors and vents and tightly wrapping things up in order to wipe them out.
But I still remember when I got the last one. The little bugger was taking nibbles while I slept and running and would be hidden and gone by the time I woke up and looking that way, but one morning it wasn't fast enough and I finally caught it and killed it and ended it after many months (that alone took weeks to catch since they don't have to eat much or often just to survive).

We used duct tape(to seal), a sweater lint roller and Lysol on the mattress every day, and I stuck spiders under the bed(they loved to eat 'em).

 

[Stevicus]

Speaking of finding a person in the house you don't know about, I'm reminded of a TV movie I saw, from back in the 1970s:

Bad Ronald (TV Movie 1974) ⭐ 6.6 | Drama, Horror, Thriller

1h 14m | Unrated

www.imdb.com

It's about a teenage boy who was hiding in his mother's house when she died at the hospital, and he remained hiding in this secret room unbeknownst to the new owners who moved in. Kind of a horror film, at least as much as one could have in 1974.

 

[Stevicus]

When I was in college, for a few months, I lived in a place which had a roach infestation. They were everywhere, and at night, if you turned on the kitchen light, they'd all be out there and suddenly scatter. I had to move out; that place was beyond hope. I was getting too used to them, even giving them names just before I squashed them with my fingers.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

We used duct tape(to seal), a sweater lint roller and Lysol on the mattress every day, and I stuck spiders under the bed(they loved to eat 'em).

Catching spiders Id find nearby and releasing them near the infestation was something I also did.

Same. I went to the doctor for the rashes, even. I can't believe they didn't piece it together when I told them how they showed up in straight lines...

The docter I went to said scabies, and that threw me for a loop because there just should have been no way I had scabbies. After that I looked up bedbugs because I began to suspect the new bug I'm seeing and not recognizing may be the culprit.

 

[JustGeorge]

Catching spiders Id find nearby and releasing them near the infestation was something I also did.

The docter I went to said scabies, and that threw me for a loop because there just should have been no way I had scabbies. After that I looked up bedbugs because I began to suspect the new bug I'm seeing and not recognizing may be the culprit.

We never figured it out until my husband was rearranging the bedroom.

I was sitting in the living room, and all the sudden he comes running through with the mattress, and threw it out the front door onto the lawn.

Seemed like a normal day, but he came back in huffing and puffing, so I went to inspect...

And there they were.

 

[danieldemol]

I've got an outstanding pest control neighbour, I'd take the roaches

 

[Soandso]

Ehhh... Both are awful. I'd rather the person, though, as roaches are not only an immediate threat, but are also indicative of a worse underlying problem

 

[Twilight Hue]

I'm not going to post it here, but if anyone wants to see a really freaky movie scene, Google "damnation alley giant cockroaches."

Or Bubba bo Tep. Roach fight.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Roaches. I got enough spiders and centipedes in my old cellar to keep them happy for years!

 

[We Never Know]

Roaches. I got enough spiders and centipedes in my old cellar to keep them happy for years!

Roaches like this?.....

 

[Stevicus]