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re: Give me your worst roach horror story
Posted on 5/13/22 at 2:48 pm to lsudave1
Posted on 5/13/22 at 2:48 pm to lsudave1
Get ADVION!! Its a gel that uses tiny drops as bait and it kills them fast and they stay away. We use it once a year,no danger to pets as it goes into small crevices.
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Worst roach story. Wife saw a huge roach by the bed where i was relaxing and she freaked out. I advised her to get a papertowel because he was kinda big. I then asked her to stop shrieking while she chased him and obliterated him.
After she flushed him and wiped up the guts, i then tried to get lucky with her. It did not go well. I did not get lucky. Hell, the roach was lucky compared to the treatment i got that night.
frick dem roaches!
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Worst roach story. Wife saw a huge roach by the bed where i was relaxing and she freaked out. I advised her to get a papertowel because he was kinda big. I then asked her to stop shrieking while she chased him and obliterated him.
After she flushed him and wiped up the guts, i then tried to get lucky with her. It did not go well. I did not get lucky. Hell, the roach was lucky compared to the treatment i got that night.
frick dem roaches!
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Posted on 5/13/22 at 2:53 pm to RidiculousHype
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And I don't really mind wasps or hornets that much. You'd think it would be the other way around given the respective dangers posed
Wasps or hornets are obviously a lot more dangerous but a cockroach's complete and utter repulsivness outweighs everything.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 3:08 pm to lsudave1
I was a junior or senior in high school getting ready for school one morning. Ive always worn skate shoes that I leave tied and just slip on and off, so that morning i slip my shoes on and make my way out the door. Get to my car and start feeling something tickling my foot. Take my shoe off and low and behold theres a big roach crawling around my shoe. To this day (that was 20 years ago and yes i still slip on my skate shoes) i bang my shoes on the ground before putting them on.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 3:13 pm to Nolalakeview
I've not really run into them out here.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 3:13 pm to lsudave1
Worked in the ER for a little bit. Lady and her mom came in saying the lady’s ear was hurting her. It was easy to see was in real pain. Mom said They thought a bug had crawled into her ear, and they had killed it by pouring cooking oil and baking soda into her ear. Why? No idea. It worked though.
Doc come in, takes a look with the otoscope, and says, “yep, there’s a bug in there”. At this point I’m thinking it’s a mosquito or something like that. Took a look myself through the otoscope, and you could see the butt end of a roach lodged in her ear canal.
Doc grabs these forcep thingies (medical jargon) and reaches down in there. Lady started yelling and the doc pulls out one leg of the roach.
It was too painful for the lady so he poured lidocaine in her ear to numb everything and came back a few minutes later. After two or three tries and coming out with just pieces, he finally pulled out a roach about an inch or an inch and a half long.
I got to look in the otoscope again and you could see the redness and scratches where the roach had tried to burrow its way through her ear drum. ??
I can’t imagine what that must have sounded like when she woke up from a dead sleep to something clawing her ear drum. Slept with cotton in my ears for about two weeks after that.
Doc come in, takes a look with the otoscope, and says, “yep, there’s a bug in there”. At this point I’m thinking it’s a mosquito or something like that. Took a look myself through the otoscope, and you could see the butt end of a roach lodged in her ear canal.
Doc grabs these forcep thingies (medical jargon) and reaches down in there. Lady started yelling and the doc pulls out one leg of the roach.
It was too painful for the lady so he poured lidocaine in her ear to numb everything and came back a few minutes later. After two or three tries and coming out with just pieces, he finally pulled out a roach about an inch or an inch and a half long.
I got to look in the otoscope again and you could see the redness and scratches where the roach had tried to burrow its way through her ear drum. ??
I can’t imagine what that must have sounded like when she woke up from a dead sleep to something clawing her ear drum. Slept with cotton in my ears for about two weeks after that.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 3:14 pm to lsudave1
Roaches are probably my number one enemy. I remember back when I was living in the LSU dorms i went to go take a shower and there were like 15 roaches on the bathroom. Still freaks me out
Also last year when I moved into a new rental house the first night I was sleeping on an air mattress. Woke up to a roach crawling across me. Almost moved out right there
Also last year when I moved into a new rental house the first night I was sleeping on an air mattress. Woke up to a roach crawling across me. Almost moved out right there
Posted on 5/13/22 at 3:21 pm to lsudave1
I got married to my first wife while I was still in college at Nicholls. We moved into “Married Student Housing.” While we were moving in we saw a few dead roaches but didn’t think much of it. That night when we went to bed I turned off the lights and was staring at the ceiling and I swore I saw something moving. I turned on the lights and there were literally hundreds if not thousands of roaches, everywhere. Fortunately my sister had an apartment and we were able to crash there for the rest of the night. The next day we contacted Dr. Dial (who was in charge of the housing) and he promised to send out exterminators to wipe the place clean. We stayed gone for 2 days and were then told that all the roaches were gone and we could come back. We went back and everything was clean. That night, turned off the lights, and it was the same thing all over again. Needless to say we never went back and moved out.
This post was edited on 5/13/22 at 6:04 pm
Posted on 5/13/22 at 3:25 pm to SirWinston
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I'm so scared of roaches mates thank God we don't have them in Oregon.
so roaches and mice huh?
Posted on 5/13/22 at 3:26 pm to lsudave1
I was at Sandals Dunn’s River on my first honeymoon, standing in line one morning at their outdoor breakfast buffet. Suddenly a flying roach the size of a small child landed on the back of the shoulder of the guy in front of me (he was wearing a tank top). My jaw immediately dropped. It took him a couple seconds before he felt it crawling and then he twisted his head and saw it and exclaimed, “Aaghh!” and brushed it off. He was like, “Did you see the size of that thing!?” Still gives me the heebie-jeebies.
This post was edited on 5/13/22 at 6:05 pm
Posted on 5/13/22 at 3:50 pm to lsudave1
I have two equally horrific experiences with roaches.
The first was a neglected nursing home patient transported to the ER unresponsive. When the heavily soiled diaper was removed, several large “palmetto bugs” scattered, with one taking flight and successfully escaping.
Second was a 3am 911 call for insect bites and suicidal ideation at Florida trailer park. A severely obese woman in her early 20’s was seated on a filthy mattress on the floor. She weighed over 700 pounds and had severe mobility issues. The mobility issues prevented her from swatting off the biting roaches, evidenced by hundreds of infected bites covering her body.
She reported her day consisted of eating, sleeping in the seated position, television, using a large bucket as a toilet and swatting at the biting roaches within her limited reach. She also reported having not left her room for several years, a combination of limited mobility and not being able to pass through the doorway. She finally had enough and asked her roommate to call 911.
We ended up calling in a heavy rescue unit to remove a section of the exterior wall in order to extricate the woman. She was transported to the emergency room and the ambulance was placed out of service for a week to undergo de-infestation.
Back at the station I took three showers and placed my uniform in a biohazard bag. I also skipped a few meals before my appetite returned.
Definitely in the top 25 on my gnarly experiences list.
The first was a neglected nursing home patient transported to the ER unresponsive. When the heavily soiled diaper was removed, several large “palmetto bugs” scattered, with one taking flight and successfully escaping.
Second was a 3am 911 call for insect bites and suicidal ideation at Florida trailer park. A severely obese woman in her early 20’s was seated on a filthy mattress on the floor. She weighed over 700 pounds and had severe mobility issues. The mobility issues prevented her from swatting off the biting roaches, evidenced by hundreds of infected bites covering her body.
She reported her day consisted of eating, sleeping in the seated position, television, using a large bucket as a toilet and swatting at the biting roaches within her limited reach. She also reported having not left her room for several years, a combination of limited mobility and not being able to pass through the doorway. She finally had enough and asked her roommate to call 911.
We ended up calling in a heavy rescue unit to remove a section of the exterior wall in order to extricate the woman. She was transported to the emergency room and the ambulance was placed out of service for a week to undergo de-infestation.
Back at the station I took three showers and placed my uniform in a biohazard bag. I also skipped a few meals before my appetite returned.
Definitely in the top 25 on my gnarly experiences list.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:12 pm to lsudave1
I had a blind man tell me he had roaches.
"How do you know?"
He said he could hear them on the counter.
"How do you know?"
He said he could hear them on the counter.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:14 pm to Insee
Oh my god. You win the thread. Thanks for giving me nightmares.
This post was edited on 5/13/22 at 4:15 pm
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:20 pm to lsudave1
In college we stuck one on duct tape to the wall and named it Petey.
Bastards legs moved for over a month without food and water.
Bastards legs moved for over a month without food and water.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:23 pm to lsudave1
I had a big one crawl on my face while I was sleeping. It woke me up and in the dark I thrashed my covers like an insane person. I turned my lights on and found the sob in a million pieces.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:30 pm to lsudave1
In the early 90's I was in the jungle in some random Central American country. I kept noticing when I looked at the ground through my NVGs it looked kinda pixelated and kind of like the ground was moving. Those older gen NVGs often produced some odd effects when conditions were right so I flipped them up and it still looked like the ground was "liquid". So I knelt down and pulled out my red lensed flashlight shielding it with my hand and turned it on. The entire ground was COVERED with a roach-like insect and it looked like water flowing.
I couldn't sleep for 2 nights and just thinking about it now I can feel them crawling up and covering my whole body. I was definitely in their house.
I couldn't sleep for 2 nights and just thinking about it now I can feel them crawling up and covering my whole body. I was definitely in their house.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:31 pm to lsudave1
Reliving the memories of specific stories is far too painful, so I only come here to say that roaches are the true spawn of Satan, and it was really a roach that got Eve to take a bite from the apple in the Garden of Eden.
I catch venomous snakes and alligators for fun, but I will not pick up a dead roach. I won’t kill a roach with anything that requires closer contact than wasp spray that shoots 25 ft. If there is a roach in my house, I have to call my wife to come kill it. If there’s a dead one, my wife has to dispose of it.
Some people claim that snakes - and cottonmouths in particular - will chase you. That’s complete BS. A snake will make any and all efforts to flee from you as quickly as possible. If they happen to come in your direction, it’s completely by accident. A roach, on the other hand, has one and only one purpose in life - to get on you.
I catch venomous snakes and alligators for fun, but I will not pick up a dead roach. I won’t kill a roach with anything that requires closer contact than wasp spray that shoots 25 ft. If there is a roach in my house, I have to call my wife to come kill it. If there’s a dead one, my wife has to dispose of it.
Some people claim that snakes - and cottonmouths in particular - will chase you. That’s complete BS. A snake will make any and all efforts to flee from you as quickly as possible. If they happen to come in your direction, it’s completely by accident. A roach, on the other hand, has one and only one purpose in life - to get on you.
This post was edited on 5/13/22 at 4:36 pm
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:35 pm to lsudave1
fricker crawled up my leg while I was sitting at my computer out in the middle of the living room of this one apartment. I was minding my business, the lights were on although it was nighttime… didn’t matter.
If you can still believe in a God that created these abominations then bless your heart baw
If you can still believe in a God that created these abominations then bless your heart baw
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:37 pm to lsudave1
Couple years ago I had to take a piss in the middle of the night and walked down the hall toward the bathroom in the dark. Somehow manage to surprise a roach (and myself) by stepping on it and killing it barefoot. fricking nasty shite to feel on the bottom of your foot by surprise. Then you gotta do the one-foot hop to the shower and clean that shite up, fully awake after that bullshite
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:37 pm to lsudave1
Living in a college apartment, was in bed with a girl. Both asleep. I startle awake feeling the sensation of something crawling on me and I’m instinctively grabbing and throwing something as I sit up and startle awake. We’re both awake now bc I violently shook the bed when I did it. I hop out of bed bc I can’t find what was on me. Turns out I managed to grab a roach that was crawling on me while I was still not conscious, and I threw it at the wall as I gained consciousness. The roach was smashed against the wall
Gives me the shivers to this day
Gives me the shivers to this day
Posted on 5/13/22 at 4:38 pm to FCP
quote:I found out years later that when I'd bring home a basket of laundry from the fraternity house, my mom was putting the basket outside in the sun to let the roaches run out. I guess she picked up a shirt once and a roach fell out, and that was that.
the worst part was finding a huge roach at home later in the day and knowing it likely rode home on your clothes.
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