cockroaches
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- pastpastdue0
Well, landlord is getting an exterminator. I am living in fear now.
- whatthefunk0
when I lived in China every apartment I had (3) had cockroaches when I moved in. I bought a caulk gun and sealed every gap in the apartment. Door jams, window jams, around kitchen cabinets, around pipes coming through the walls (bathroom/kitchen sink). I covered larger holes with cardboard and caulk. That really did the trick
- CALLES0
living in florida there are plenty. I am 6'2". But if i see a roach in my apartment i have to leave. And if i am with a girlfriend she has to kill it cuz i cannot bring myself to. They are warned at the beginning of the relationship
- the girlfriend.. not the roachesCALLES
- CALLES is a sissy?benfal99
- i dont care about rats, snakes, trannies & other shit. but a roach the size of the pinky finger nail and i am freakingCALLES
- CALLES' a sissy.
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Case closed.benfal99 - =:::(CALLES
- 6'2" huh? i never realized human height could correlate to the fear level towards roaches.iCanHasQBN
- i met this girl once, five-fucking-feet tall. a roach zoomed right passed her shoe and she didn't even flip out!iCanHasQBN
- benfal990
The only place I've ever saw cockroaches is in the Montreal's metro (subway) and they are very small. I guess the roughness of the Quebec's winters are not very good for cockroaches.
- whereRI0
they will rule the earth after the nuclear winter we create
- totally.benfal99
- but they will have no Doritos crumbs to snack on. thus ending their species.iCanHasQBN
- duckofrubber0
Though this was another Hedge-related thread.
- d_rek0
They were attracted to the Miller High Life and Die Hard.
- dasohr0
last night i killed 6 big cockroaches and a handful of baby ones in my kitchen. we have a serious cockroach problem in our apartment, getting sprayed the second time in 2 months.
i find the only thing that really works, is keeping food stored properly, never leaving any water around and of course pure violence inflicted with a fly swatter. damm bugs can be quick so i keep my swatter very close at all times. i figure the more you kill manually the more effective pest control is.
funny thing is i've been living in the projects for years and never had a roach problem, but recently upgraded to common civilian quarters, which cost a lot more, only to find my new apartment infested with those damned buggers.
beats a rat infestation any day thou...
- sequoia0
once a building has them you can spray all you like, but it's not going to get rid of them.
if you want to reduce their numbers remove all food sources and water. this means ALL food sources, remember they can live off a few crumbs.
i also suggest doing some hardcore camping in the bush where you will be covered with all manners of insects. when you get home a couple of roaches won't seem like a big deal ;P
- pastpastdue0
Yeah, I just poked around the basement of our building and didn't find any, so, that's a good sign.
Really think this bugger was a one-off that made it's way in through a window. Who knows though, I can't get into the storage units in the basement and there might just be a huge fucking infestation in one.
I am probably going to buy some boric acid and go to town in the basement. Shit eats anything alive. Love it. Had ant problems last summer so I just lined our apartment building's outside wall with it and they = demolished.
- Ramanisky20
when I was about 15 I remember living in this shit hole apartment and we had a bit a roach problem .. those fuckers were everywhere ... I put some food in the microwave and those bitches were walking around the plate inside while it was on full microblast and nothing happened to them .. they just walked around like Laddy Dah .. fuck I hate those things
- ETM0
You know what they say, for every 1 you see there is a 100 you don't. :(
- instrmntl0
clean as much as you can, make sure all food is sealed. any that isnt, throw it out. scrub your cabinets. then get some roach hotels. you'll be good to go.
- Douglas0
assuming there is no getting rid of them completely, we keep a spray bottle handy with soapy water inside. the soap breaks down their oils so they can't move as fast, because some are like lightning. Keep spraying them until immobile, then kill it really good, because they like to play dead sometimes too.
i've had no luck with roach motels or any store bought product. i've seen exterminators use this stuff that sorta looks like sawdust which seem seem to work pretty well.
- Probably boric acid.pastpastdue
- Also, fellow Detroiter, I'm in Grosse Pointe, which since moving here, I've learned has quite the cockroach problem.pastpastdue
- i actually live in brooklyn these days. roaches in NY seem much more common than Detroit.Douglas
- douglas, I'm impressed, you sound like an expert.
respect.Miguex - I dont know if this is true or not, but I believe you hahahaMiguex
- yeah man, dishsoap!Douglas
- pastpastdue0
Thanks, friends. I really don't want to have to deal with them, and I haven't seen any save this one, so I'm really hoping it was some weird straggler.
Let's hear everyone's residential cockroach stories now.
- did you kill it?sea_sea
- I killed the fuck out of it. There was guts everywhere.pastpastdue
- i have a good story from a few weeks ago. one crawled on my wife in the shower. she freaked.Douglas
- hahaha i don't blame you.sea_sea
- Gross. Couldn't handle it. I can't even bring myself to go to bed out of my new found fear.pastpastdue
- Worried they'll crawl on your face, in your mouth etc?
Sorry :DETM