A cockroach ran over me in bed

ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
edited July 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
So, I was woken at 4am by a big cockroach crawling over my head.

I shook my head and then get out of bed and turned the light on and saw this big motherfucker running away down the side of my bed. I couldn't find it after that. :twisted:

So, it's still lurking somewhere.

Anyone else ever had anything like that happen?
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Oh I have. (Are you really in China?) In Houston one job I worked, I was supposed to clear out these stacks of newspapers, and I picked up a big armful and felt a scratchy feeling on my arm, put the papers down and saw a 3 inch cockroach on my arm. In Bangladesh, I had one fly in a window and land on my chest. I hate those things.

    edit - Also in Bangladesh, we went to this chinese restaurant, back in the 80's and a cockroach crawled up on the table, so we asked to be moved. Then we thought they'd try to find the cockroach. They did not - they just seated another family at the same table.
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Happened to my gf on vacation in Myrtle Beach once. She freaked. I hate roaches. I'd move out the second I saw one.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    edited July 2009
    I don't normally get them in here. I've only seen a couple in the past 6 months.


    Mosquito's are more bothersome to me. I've declared war on Mosquito's. I keep my windows closed from about 4pm until about 9am as that's when Mozzies like to party. I have a great electric tennis racket-mozzie killer thing. It's fucking great - fries the bastards good!
  • jecicajecica Posts: 954
    You know if there is one, there are thousands. I had an issue with them in our dorm in NC, freaked the hell out and the bombed the place due to the infestation. There were five in my bed one night and I couldn't sleep after that. That crunch when you kill them still gives me goose bumps.. ewwww...
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    jecica wrote:
    You know if there is one, there are thousands.

    I'm sure there are a few in the building, but they don't tend to come into my apartment. I don't cook indoors so there's no reason for them to come in here. I think this fucker must have gotten lost. If I find it I'll send it to it's maker.
  • washedinblack91washedinblack91 Posts: 3,078
    jecica wrote:
    You know if there is one, there are thousands. I had an issue with them in our dorm in NC, freaked the hell out and the bombed the place due to the infestation. There were five in my bed one night and I couldn't sleep after that. That crunch when you kill them still gives me goose bumps.. ewwww...
    GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: that's WAY too fucking disgusting!! i feel so sorry for you! FIVE?! are you kidding?! i wouldn't be able to sleep either! i remember there was a spider in my room, about the size of a nickel, and i couldn't sleep at all, especially since the last place i saw it was on my bed. :evil: eeeesh..
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  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,301
    I hate roaches!!! Ugh!


    Ugh!



    Here in Scottsdale, the city bombed the sewers in different locations. Cool right? Nope!
    It's caused the sewer roaches to crawl up the drains and pipes into people's places! :shock:

    None have gotten into my place, but I know a lot of people in really nice places who've had 3 inch sewer roaches crawling around! Bleh!

    This girl I'm kinda/sorta-seeing is literally scared to death of them. She's gotten a few, and I have to come over and kill them/get rid of them!

    F-THAT!
    Ugh!
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    cockroach.jpg
  • pearljgirl2010pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    nice giant picture!!!

    In SoCal, they are outside all the time in summer....it took me a long time to get used to them, and I still don't like them....i esp don't like to step on them!
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    I don't like roaches, I only seee them in Florida.

    Oh let me tell about an experience I had with roaches back when I was a teen in Brooklyn NY. I was to stay at this womans house for 3 weeks till a summer job was finished,. The first morning there I went to eat a big bowl of Corn Flakes. Poured it out then added some milk but it was only then did I notice the roach eggs and then some roaches crawling around in my cereal.

    I did one of those Oh Hell No and at 16 I got my stuff and left with that bowl of cereal sitting on the table. That was one nasty woman and one nasty apartment.

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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    g under p wrote:
    I don't like roaches, I only seee them in Florida.

    Oh let me tell about an experience I had with roaches back when I was a teen in Brooklyn NY. I was to stay at this womans house for 3 weeks till a summer job was finished,. The first morning there I went to eat a big bowl of Corn Flakes. Poured it out then added some milk but it was only then did I notice the roach eggs and then some roaches crawling around in my cereal.

    I did one of those Oh Hell No and at 16 I got my stuff and left with that bowl of cereal sitting on the table. That was one nasty woman and one nasty apartment.

    Peace

    Someone once told me about a time they were in Ibiza and he woke up to go and get some water from the kitchen with nothing on his feet. He said he walked across the floor and thought that someone had dropped cornflakes on the floor as he heard a crunching sound. The next morning he realised he'd been walking on roaches.
  • pearljgirl2010pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    um, can someone tell me precisely WHY i'm reading this thread before I go to bed??? I'm not a squeamish person, but you better believe that I'm gonna flip my covers up before I get in :-)
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    um, can someone tell me precisely WHY i'm reading this thread before I go to bed??? I'm not a squeamish person, but you better believe that I'm gonna flip my covers up before I get in :-)

    You should have no fears unless you think there's a chance you may have a roach or two or three.

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  • Thorns2010Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    The only time I ever remember seeing a cockroach was when I was at Disney World back in..... '96 I believe. Happiest place on earth my foot!!! But that is the nice thing about living in Minnesota, no fear of them, gets to cold in the winter! ha-ha!

    Oh, and yes, while cockroaches are not cool, I remember back when I went to an orphanage in Mexico with my church back in high school we had to check our beds for scorpions. Never did find one, but that would freak me the fuck out way more than a 'roach ever could!
  • JennytreeJennytree Posts: 5,340
    I've never seen one, but byjaysis I would freak the fuck out if I ever came near one. I think I'd have to wear boots all the time then *shudders* I think the size of them is the scary thing for me.
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  • I've had a number of nightmarish incidences with roaches (and other large bugs) in my lifetime, mostly on trips to India. One time I was sharing the bed with my cousin and we had the mossie net set up around us but I could see this huge thing hanging on the outside of the net. Before I could panic I saw another one run along the top of the wooden bedhead and fall inside, near my head. I screamed my head off and my cousin woke up and started banging around the bed with the hand fan, lol, trying to kill it. I just ran out of there. I was so freaked I woke up all the neighbours, they thought we were being attacked, lol.
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  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,281
    i lived with roaches back in my university dayz and never ever saw 1 in my bedroom...they loved the kitchen tho!
    dont ever bring food into your bedroom if you have them

    worse nitemare was a 3" centipede woke me up in the middle of the night after crawling over my upper body/face...i woke up, turned the light on, saw it, grabbed something to squash it, squashed it...it was a really messy squash...went back to sleep, and kept the window closed for the next month, in terror.

    i hate bugs

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  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,375
    my first shitty apartment in manhattan was home to the occasional roach or mouse

    on morning I woke up and a mouse was sitting on my alarm clock
    scared the bejesus out of me

    but I got that fucker
    :evil:
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,689
    Get_Right wrote:
    my first shitty apartment in manhattan was home to the occasional roach or mouse

    on morning I woke up and a mouse was sitting on my alarm clock
    scared the bejesus out of me

    but I got that fucker
    :evil:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNI5xoNMM9g
  • pearljgirl2010pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    emptyglass wrote:

    worse nitemare was a 3" centipede woke me up in the middle of the night after crawling over my upper body/face...i woke up, turned the light on, saw it, grabbed something to squash it, squashed it...it was a really messy squash...went back to sleep, and kept the window closed for the next month, in terror.

    i hate bugs

    there are no good bugs, imo

    eeeewwwww~~~~now THAT I can't do....I reallllly don't like centipedes...all those fast-moving feet...(shudders at the thought) ew.
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  • satansbedbugssatansbedbugs On Tour Posts: 2,412
    I seen my fair share in the restaurant business. big, small.....the big ones look like big crickets....
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  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    I am not usually bothered by bugs or rodents or snakes or anything... but roaches (or anything) in my bed would put me over the edge. I would go sleep in my car or something that night.


    And to the person who had 5 roaches in their bed in a college dorm, oh hell no... if it was a campus dorm, I would put them in a container and take them to the person in charge of housing, and threaten to let them loose in his/her office unless they either moved me, or got rid of them that day.
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  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Update: I just found it. It's now in cockroach heaven, or hell.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,375
    Rygar wrote:
    Get_Right wrote:
    my first shitty apartment in manhattan was home to the occasional roach or mouse

    on morning I woke up and a mouse was sitting on my alarm clock
    scared the bejesus out of me

    but I got that fucker
    :evil:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNI5xoNMM9g
    classic :lol::lol::lol:
    and about right
  • small town becksmall town beck Posts: 6,691
    I have only seen them on the streets of some cities I have visited but seriously if one came into where I lived that would be it...I would be GONE. Bad enough I have found a couple of spiders in my new place *shudders*
  • HeavyHandsHeavyHands Posts: 2,130
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I have a great electric tennis racket-mozzie killer thing. It's fucking great - fries the bastards good!

    Those things are the best! Swing away and you'll nail 'em every time. For fun, when my friend and I would kill all the ones in our office we'd open the door to let more in again. Nonstop entertainment!
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    HeavyHands wrote:
    Byrnzie wrote:
    I have a great electric tennis racket-mozzie killer thing. It's fucking great - fries the bastards good!

    Those things are the best! Swing away and you'll nail 'em every time. For fun, when my friend and I would kill all the ones in our office we'd open the door to let more in again. Nonstop entertainment!

    Would it work on wasps do you think?

    re scorpions - when I was 8 there was one in my shower stall at camp, but I only saw it after I finished my shower. (in hill country in Texas)
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  • HeavyHandsHeavyHands Posts: 2,130
    JaneNY wrote:
    Would it work on wasps do you think?

    There's only one way to find out! Honestly I think it would. If you blast a mosquito with the racket and it gets stuck on there (instead of falling off) the current will continue to cook it and make a small "arcing current" sound. Methinks that a wasp would have a hard time not succumbing to this.
    JaneNY wrote:
    re scorpions - when I was 8 there was one in my shower stall at camp, but I only saw it after I finished my shower. (in hill country in Texas)

    Lucky. I had a small black scorpion crawl across my neck in OK once. It was about 3AM and some friends and I were camping. We were all awake b/c of a thunderstorm and I felt what I thought was a mosquito fluttering around my neck. I swatted it away and heard something impact my friend's backpack. I turned on a flashlight and there it was.

    Funniest part is that we'd not seen one like that before so my buddy picked it up by the tail with his leatherman pliers and was turning it over to get a look when he dropped it. It was about 1/2 inch from falling straight into his boot, which he had unlaced. He jumped about three feet in the air and screamed. Really really wish I had a video camera right then.
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,245
    emptyglass wrote:
    .

    i hate bugs

    there are no good bugs, imo
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