I think the only thing worse than a Florida roach, at least to me, are scorpions.
Check this experience out...
I was in the shower the other night, soaking wet from cleaning myself and went to grab my shampoo from the hanging basket over the shower head. I caught a glimpse of something black out of the corner of my eye but continued on with getting the shampoo.
As I brought the bottle down to pour some out, the black thing I saw dropped into the tub. It was a black scorpion about 4 inches long. It hit the bottom of the tub and started towards me. YIKES! I poured huge amounts of water over it with the soap dish until it went down the drain. Freaked me out. What if that thing had fallen onto my head? OMG, I would have had a heart attack. It's been so dry here and he was trying to get to the water. He came out of the wall in a small opening between the ring attaching the shower head and the wall. Needless to say, the opening is there no longer..... :shock: :shock: :shock:
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YOu guys better start to like them, I hear that is all that will be left to eat on this earth when the food supply runs out...YIKES!
Vegas has Giant ass cockroaches that come out at night if you are off the craziness of the strip! and Florida, geez, those are even bigger..I stayed at a hotel once in Alexandria, Va, waking up at night and seeing those bitches on the walls, the floors, freaked me out! didn't stay another night at that place, but realized living in the city, in a huge apt complex, you are bound to have them. some people are just fucking nasty! and I wont even talk about the couch we drug home one day, cause we didn't have one. It looked nice, someone had left it when they moved out. Once we got it into our apt, those fuckers just started running out of the couch! Another reason I choose not to live in the city anymore...
I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me...GUARANTEED!
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!
I'm petrafied of Roaches, I literally freak out, I totally have a phobia! We, here in Scottsdale get the sewer roaches, especially now when it's hot and dry. I try to close up the drains as much as possible, but I bet we get 2 a week. The cats usually get them, but nevertheless, they freak me the fuck out!
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cicada killer bees (shes the size of my thumb no lie)
yuk!
don't let one fall on you while its transporting its paralyed cicada to its nest deep in the ground
especially while you are floating peacefully in the pool listening to pj
willies just thinking of it again
and yes i know good for the tees to get rid of cicada wish there was another way though
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!
We do that a lot round my friends house here. It's quite addictive once you start.
It's great when you get 'em in mid-flight. :twisted:
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)
I got a fly with one one night and it took ages to fry it - like 10 minutes or something. I started feeling sorry for the fly after a while.
I got a fly with one one night and it took ages to fry it - like 10 minutes or something. I started feeling sorry for the fly after a while.
I don't know if I'd have the heart to do that, even though I dislike bugs!
Some good scorpion stories.
Cicada killer bees - are those in Chicago? Does anyone know what those big wasp looking bugs in the trees in summer in Chicago are? (I noticed them (and made a point to stay away) when I was in Lollapalooza)
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Reading all these stories is making my skin crawl!...... :roll:
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
Henry David Thoreau
oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.
when i lived in orlando, i had an apartment that was near an oak tree so they would get into my apartment sometimes. i would have to chase them around my apartment with bug spray...bathroom cleaner...whatever i could get my hands on and hope that they would die!!
in tampa i would see them daily scattering around the streets. sometimes they would get into my store...disgusting! just another reason why i'm glad to be out of florida.
oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.
just another reason why i'm glad to be out of florida.
my buddy use to tell me stories about the flying cockroaches in duneeden(sp?) florida
he said they were huge and impossible to kill/squish
roaches are bad but i cant even imagine flyin roaches! OMG YIKES
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oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.
just another reason why i'm glad to be out of florida.
my buddy use to tell me stories about the flying cockroaches in duneeden(sp?) florida
he said they were huge and impossible to kill/squish
roaches are bad but i cant even imagine flyin roaches! OMG YIKES
I've encountered flying roaches in Jamaica and I can remember them coming out at nightime. Well atleast we don't have to deal with roaches like from this scene from the movie Papillon...with Steve McQueen 1:25 mark
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oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.
yeah--we have those here too. not so much in Waco, but they were all over the place in Houston. texas roaches are HUGE. when we first moved into our house here about a year or so ago, i ran to the store to get my wife & i something to eat while we started unpacking. i came home and she was standing on the high part of the couch freaking out. i asked her what was wrong & she just pointed. i swear it was the biggest, nastiest roach that i had ever seen. it seemed like it took half a can of spray just to kill it--it just wouldn't die. we have our house sprayed every 2 months because of that.
oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.
just another reason why i'm glad to be out of florida.
my buddy use to tell me stories about the flying cockroaches in duneeden(sp?) florida
he said they were huge and impossible to kill/squish
roaches are bad but i cant even imagine flyin roaches! OMG YIKES
They're soooo BIG there you can see their legs dangling when they fly!
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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.
Really! :x ....If anything he could of at least made for a nice add to the house special chop suey!
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We call them "Palmetto Bugs" in my home state and they can fly also.
Cant stand them, whenever I see one I kill it. They''re known to carry like 7 known diseases
There were cockroaches in this place when I came here, but only a few here and there. I'm actually surprised that we don't have a full blown infestation with how my roommates leave food everywhere. I swear there are actually fewer cockroaches. :? Maybe not even the bugs can handle this distgustingness. :shock: :evil:
I once had a roommate who was so lazy and messy she got Teflon to rust. Not joking either.
Hot dogs and some other crud.
I'd pitch a fit, but I should be moving into my own place within about a week. My roommates are great as friends, but I'm so happy I don't have to live with them much longer. I'm sure we would develop major pest issues if we continued to live in such filth.
oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.
when i lived in orlando, i had an apartment that was near an oak tree so they would get into my apartment sometimes. i would have to chase them around my apartment with bug spray...bathroom cleaner...whatever i could get my hands on and hope that they would die!!
in tampa i would see them daily scattering around the streets. sometimes they would get into my store...disgusting! just another reason why i'm glad to be out of florida.
oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.
just another reason why i'm glad to be out of florida.
my buddy use to tell me stories about the flying cockroaches in duneeden(sp?) florida
he said they were huge and impossible to kill/squish
roaches are bad but i cant even imagine flyin roaches! OMG YIKES
They're soooo BIG there you can see their legs dangling when they fly!
Oh yeah, lots of flying ones in Bangladesh. One time when I was there a swarm started in the living room (the windows are open to the outside, with just metal grills so thieves won't get in, so bugs come in and out. Anyway my husband and I were sleeping at night and we started hearing thwap, smash, slap (the sound of sandals hitting things) from the living room, so he goes out, and then comes back in and says 'stay in there' as I cower in the mosquito net. He and his brothers were killing a lot of roaches that had been flying, smashing them with their sandals. I could hear them running on the outside of the house too. Its a tropical place. Big bugs.
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R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
Growing up in MN, I remember having to deal with these asshole June bugs for two weeks at the beginning of every Summer.
They fly around at dusk, and they're vision is really bad so they'll run right into you and land on your clothes and just sit there and cling to you until you pick them off of you. They're also really agressive and have no problem using those pincers.
That happened to me one time, except it was my leg. It was so big!!!! I jumped up, my husband turned on the light and we stayed awake until we found it and got rid of it. It was one of the biggest bugs I've ever seen... It still makes me shiver to think about it.
oh geez...where do i even start with experiences??! i've seen plenty while living in florida...and i'm totally freaked out by them! i'm especially terrified by the ones that fly...i will run and hide from them.
yeah--we have those here too. not so much in Waco, but they were all over the place in Houston. texas roaches are HUGE. when we first moved into our house here about a year or so ago, i ran to the store to get my wife & i something to eat while we started unpacking. i came home and she was standing on the high part of the couch freaking out. i asked her what was wrong & she just pointed. i swear it was the biggest, nastiest roach that i had ever seen. it seemed like it took half a can of spray just to kill it--it just wouldn't die. we have our house sprayed every 2 months because of that.
they don't die!!! especially the palmetto bugs/flying roaches...i would just grab whatever i could find...raid, bathroom cleaner...and just spray the crap out of them while they ran around like crazy. then i'd lock myself in my room with a towel shoved under my door. it's not like that would help much, but it made me feel better.
i'm hoping that because my apartment here in new that i won't have to deal with bugs too much. i can handle spiders, as long as they're not too gigantic and keep to themselves.
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 :-)
That's JUST what I was thinking. Fuck that. I'm gonna go read something less disturbing on the Moving Train before I go to bed (and that's saying something, since pretty much everything over there is disturbing).
Fuck that. I'm gonna go read something less disturbing on the Moving Train before I go to bed (and that's saying something, since pretty much everything over there is disturbing).
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 :-)
That's JUST what I was thinking. Fuck that. I'm gonna go read something less disturbing on the Moving Train before I go to bed (and that's saying something, since pretty much everything over there is disturbing).
Do we need to bump the bat thread?
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Check this experience out...
I was in the shower the other night, soaking wet from cleaning myself and went to grab my shampoo from the hanging basket over the shower head. I caught a glimpse of something black out of the corner of my eye but continued on with getting the shampoo.
As I brought the bottle down to pour some out, the black thing I saw dropped into the tub. It was a black scorpion about 4 inches long. It hit the bottom of the tub and started towards me. YIKES!
Mohandas K. Gandhi
~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
Henry David Thoreau
Vegas has Giant ass cockroaches that come out at night if you are off the craziness of the strip! and Florida, geez, those are even bigger..I stayed at a hotel once in Alexandria, Va, waking up at night and seeing those bitches on the walls, the floors, freaked me out! didn't stay another night at that place, but realized living in the city, in a huge apt complex, you are bound to have them. some people are just fucking nasty! and I wont even talk about the couch we drug home one day, cause we didn't have one. It looked nice, someone had left it when they moved out. Once we got it into our apt, those fuckers just started running out of the couch! Another reason I choose not to live in the city anymore...
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I'm petrafied of Roaches, I literally freak out, I totally have a phobia! We, here in Scottsdale get the sewer roaches, especially now when it's hot and dry. I try to close up the drains as much as possible, but I bet we get 2 a week. The cats usually get them, but nevertheless, they freak me the fuck out!
cicada killer bees (shes the size of my thumb no lie)
yuk!
don't let one fall on you while its transporting its paralyed cicada to its nest deep in the ground
especially while you are floating peacefully in the pool listening to pj
willies just thinking of it again
and yes i know good for the tees to get rid of cicada wish there was another way though
We do that a lot round my friends house here. It's quite addictive once you start.
It's great when you get 'em in mid-flight. :twisted:
I got a fly with one one night and it took ages to fry it - like 10 minutes or something. I started feeling sorry for the fly after a while.
I don't know if I'd have the heart to do that, even though I dislike bugs!
Some good scorpion stories.
Cicada killer bees - are those in Chicago? Does anyone know what those big wasp looking bugs in the trees in summer in Chicago are? (I noticed them (and made a point to stay away) when I was in Lollapalooza)
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
Mohandas K. Gandhi
~I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn.~
Henry David Thoreau
when i lived in orlando, i had an apartment that was near an oak tree so they would get into my apartment sometimes. i would have to chase them around my apartment with bug spray...bathroom cleaner...whatever i could get my hands on and hope that they would die!!
in tampa i would see them daily scattering around the streets. sometimes they would get into my store...disgusting! just another reason why i'm glad to be out of florida.
Get yourself some earplugs or stuff some cotton in your ears.
my buddy use to tell me stories about the flying cockroaches in duneeden(sp?) florida
he said they were huge and impossible to kill/squish
roaches are bad but i cant even imagine flyin roaches! OMG YIKES
I've encountered flying roaches in Jamaica and I can remember them coming out at nightime. Well atleast we don't have to deal with roaches like from this scene from the movie
Papillon...with Steve McQueen 1:25 mark
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yeah--we have those here too. not so much in Waco, but they were all over the place in Houston. texas roaches are HUGE. when we first moved into our house here about a year or so ago, i ran to the store to get my wife & i something to eat while we started unpacking. i came home and she was standing on the high part of the couch freaking out. i asked her what was wrong & she just pointed. i swear it was the biggest, nastiest roach that i had ever seen. it seemed like it took half a can of spray just to kill it--it just wouldn't die. we have our house sprayed every 2 months because of that.
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They're soooo BIG there you can see their legs dangling when they fly!
Really! :x ....If anything he could of at least made for a nice add to the house special chop suey!
:roll:
Cant stand them, whenever I see one I kill it. They''re known to carry like 7 known diseases
They wonder why there might be a rat here. Ugh. I'm only posting a link. This photo is disgusting. I want to hurl everytime I go to the kitchen.
http://picasaweb.google.com/angiemaldri ... 7063502578
There were cockroaches in this place when I came here, but only a few here and there. I'm actually surprised that we don't have a full blown infestation with how my roommates leave food everywhere. I swear there are actually fewer cockroaches. :? Maybe not even the bugs can handle this distgustingness. :shock: :evil:
Jeez! What exactly is in that sink?
I once had a roommate who was so lazy and messy she got Teflon to rust. Not joking either.
Hot dogs and some other crud.
I'd pitch a fit, but I should be moving into my own place within about a week. My roommates are great as friends, but I'm so happy I don't have to live with them much longer. I'm sure we would develop major pest issues if we continued to live in such filth.
Congratulations. If I were in your position I'd be more excited about this than PJ announcing a tour. Good luck with the move.
now you get to enjoy giant spiders
Oh yeah, lots of flying ones in Bangladesh. One time when I was there a swarm started in the living room (the windows are open to the outside, with just metal grills so thieves won't get in, so bugs come in and out. Anyway my husband and I were sleeping at night and we started hearing thwap, smash, slap (the sound of sandals hitting things) from the living room, so he goes out, and then comes back in and says 'stay in there' as I cower in the mosquito net. He and his brothers were killing a lot of roaches that had been flying, smashing them with their sandals. I could hear them running on the outside of the house too. Its a tropical place. Big bugs.
R.i.p. My Dad - May 28, 2007
R.i.p. Black Tail (cat) - Sept. 20, 2008
They fly around at dusk, and they're vision is really bad so they'll run right into you and land on your clothes and just sit there and cling to you until you pick them off of you. They're also really agressive and have no problem using those pincers.
i'm hoping that because my apartment here in new that i won't have to deal with bugs too much. i can handle spiders, as long as they're not too gigantic and keep to themselves.
That's JUST what I was thinking. Fuck that. I'm gonna go read something less disturbing on the Moving Train before I go to bed (and that's saying something, since pretty much everything over there is disturbing).
It's good to know I'm making an impression. :P
Do we need to bump the bat thread?
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