My EPIC BATTLE!

[JoitheArtist]

I went in to take a bath tonight, and found myself confronted with a roach the size of my thumb!! It was too big to easily squish, and pretty fast, so I chased it into the tub, thinking I could wash it down the drain.

The thing was TOO BIG to go down the drain!!!! I even ran some water to suction it down, and had the faucet aimed directly at it, and still it wouldn't go down!

I tried to drown it, and even after a minute under the water it wouldn't die!!

I finally got a wide-mouth glass jar, dropped it over the drain, and let the bug crawl inside. Then I screwed the top on, and rushed it out to the trash can outside. Hope the damn thing SUFFOCATES!

I'm buying a case of roach spray tomorrow. *shudders*

[tropicsgoddess]

I hate those fuckers, but not as much as those damn palmetto bugs (the ones that fly). The palmetto bugs are hard to kill! When I was 17 and living with my parents, my kid sis L bugged me to kill the little SOB right when I was about to go to bed because she was too chicken to do it. So I go out to the living room, find the bug on the wall and sprayed roach spray. Didn't work. Tried the shoe, then the broom and none of those worked! :hairpull: So after many failed attempts I gave up and called it a night.

[Bright_Star]

They say roaches would be the only things to survive a nuclear blast. That's never been tested & I'd hate to be the one standing around testing that theory...lol.

[Evil Queen]

The SO and I both hate roaches with a passion. It would seem Houston is overrun with them (moreso then Anywhere else I have EVER been). They like water ya know. They need it to breathe so drowning them in the tub won't work.

Cover the attic with 20 Mule Team Borax (it's in the laundry aisle as a laundry booster, works pretty damned well in the laundry too) and sprinkle around the doors and the walls. The Borax basically kills them on the spot because it leaches the water out of them.

[Aethian]

They say roaches would be the only things to survive a nuclear blast. That's never been tested & I'd hate to be the one standing around testing that theory...lol.

It has been tested by the Mythbusters.

About the experiment... (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003963482_roaches20m.html)


About the results... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-6cIy_s8pQ) It's a youtube results... We should be more scared of flour beetles then of cockroaches. As for cockroaches inheriting the earth was BUSTED.

[ShinyGreenApple]

I live in Florida, so we're unfortunately dealing with these things a lot, and I feel your pain. Hell, I was in the SHOWER earlier when one flew out of nowhere :eek: :cry:

It's actually a good thing you didn't try to smash the not-so-little bastard, sometimes they really, really stink when you do that.

*grumbles about her Dad being too cheap to hire an exterminator*

[XCashier]

We had those evil things in Phoenix. There were billions of them in the city's sewers, and they loved to come up into people's houses. Hated them with the fire of a thousand suns.

Haven't seen any yet up here in Oregon, but time will tell.

[crazylegs]

They say roaches would be the only things to survive a nuclear blast.

Happily we can accept a greater amount of radiation than roaches.

[ReadyToRetire]

I actually found something by accident that works quite well on roaches.
I hate squishing them and one popped up in my bathroom.
I had some Tilex handy and sprayed the roach. Stunned it pretty good, then it moved quite slowly. Scooped it up and flushed it.
Sometimes the Tilex will kill them outright.

[draggar]

Just let the water go as hot as possible.

[lordlundar]

As for cockroaches inheriting the earth was BUSTED.

Only because of the blast. They would survive the radiation.:D

[ShadedWings]

West Texas here, and yes roaches are bad here too. We had a bout of many of them running around, and now are down to one or two sightings every 4-5 days, thank dog. *shudder* Never had to deal with them before either.. though, right now, with the tons of rain and heat we're getting nasty mosquito bites and flies everywhere. Literally, I can kill about 20 and then walk back into the room and there are 20 more... no idea where they're coming from, and no sign of anyplace they'd be growing up inside the house. And they are so gross when they smear on the walls... *sigh* :cry: