Cockroach in my bedroom

Thoughts_Arrive
Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited April 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Walk back into room after being away for 30 mins and find a big fat cockroach on the wall.
Yuck! How did it get in there! Never seen one inside the house, only spiders!
Sucked the bastard up using a vacuum cleaner, had to assemble the vacuum in a hurry before it crawled out of sight.

Shall I trick it....I don't think it's dumb!
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • Cinnamon Girl
    Cinnamon Girl Posts: 1,854
    You know what they say...if you see one there's probably a hundred. :?

    I had cockroaches at one of my apartments years ago. *shudder*
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I think I'll have the house sprayed, lucky my brother in law is a pest controller :D
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  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    The vacuum won't kill it. It's still alive, waiting to crawl up the hose and back into your room... waiting for a chance at revenge which will probably involve laying eggs in your ears while you're sleeping... waiting to turn you into a walking roach incubator. Next time grab a can of Raid.
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  • TheDecline13
    TheDecline13 Posts: 990
    never step on a roch to kill it. It might be preggo's and u just hatched 1000's
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  • Danimal
    Danimal Posts: 2,000
    I got bugs
    I got bugs in my room
    Bugs in my bed
    Bugs in my ears
    Their eggs in my head
    Bugs in my pockets
    Bugs in my shoes
    Bugs in the way, I feel about you
    Bugs on my window
    Trying to get in
    They don't go nowhere
    Waiting, waiting...
    Bugs on my ceiling
    Crowded the floor
    Standing, sitting, kneeling...
    A few block the door
    And now the question's:
    Do I kill them?
    Become their friend?
    Do I eat them?
    Raw or well done?
    Do I trick them?
    I don't think they're that dumb
    Do I join them?
    Looks like that's the one
    I got bugs on my skin
    Tickle my nausea
    I let it happen again
    They're always takin' over
    I see they surround me, I see...
    See them deciding my fate
    Oh, that which was once...was once up to me...
    Now it's too late
    I got bugs in my room...one on one
    That's when I had a chance
    I'll just stop now
    I'll become naked
    And with them...I'll become one
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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    DeLukin wrote:
    The vacuum won't kill it. It's still alive, waiting to crawl up the hose and back into your room... waiting for a chance at revenge which will probably involve laying eggs in your ears while you're sleeping... waiting to turn you into a walking roach incubator. Next time grab a can of Raid.

    that's disgusting. i hate roaches. for some reason, they've always freaked me out. here in TX, we have these freakishly large tree roaches. they're nasty as hell.
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  • Tom K
    Tom K Posts: 842
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  • ajedigecko
    ajedigecko \m/deplorable af \m/ Posts: 2,431
    live and let live..............right? i mean, can we not apply that to roaches as well?
    live and let live...unless it violates the pearligious doctrine.
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    One nice thing about living in Minnesota is no cockroach's!! :mrgreen:

    Also, I think the first time I ever saw one was when I was at Disney World 13 years ago with my family. Happiest place on earth I think not! :lol:
  • Arcticangel
    Arcticangel Posts: 1,443
    My first encounter with a cockroach was while I was sleeping in the basement of a church on a community service trip and woke up the next morning with a big fat cockroach nestled in one of my "unmentionables" I had laid out to wear in the morning..
    *shudders*

    I had a lady bug fall into my hair during class today... but I just scooped him out and let him run around on my physics notes for the rest of the hour.
    (And then I looked up and saw the ceiling was covered with the little suckers and high-tailed it outta there..)
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  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    might want to start sleeping with your mouth duct taped shut.

    don't want any of those suckers crawling in your chomper!
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    singularity wrote:
    might want to start sleeping with your mouth duct taped shut.

    don't want any of those suckers crawling in your chomper!

    Well if you do that, they'll just crawl up your nose! :lol:
  • Cinnamon Girl
    Cinnamon Girl Posts: 1,854
    We caught one under a glass once and waited to see how long it would take for it to die...I ended up crushing it after a week. :?
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  • The Champ
    The Champ Posts: 4,063
    I've seen/killed a few now that the weather is getting warmer here..motherfuckers..
    'I want to hurry home to you
    put on a slow, dumb show for you
    and crack you up
    so you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
    god I'm very, very frightening
    and I'll overdo it'
  • decides2dream
    decides2dream Posts: 14,977
    i keep passing over this thread b/c cockroaches give me the heebeejeebees.

    i've never had an issue with them in my home *knocks wood*....but the WORST was when i was living in london!!! OMG!!! i think that damn climate is heaven to cockroaches, plus urban living. ugh. just remembering it makes my skin crawl. i think apartment-living also, in general, make them more prone to being around....unless your landlord has a systematic spraying schedule.


    i remember one time in bermuda, walking around one evening and seeing a cockroach that was as large as a small dog...thing needed to be on a leash!!! :shock: :shock: :shock:




    i have to stop reading this thread..................
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  • iamsam_pj
    iamsam_pj Posts: 300
    they're monsterous here in florida!! and then you have the scary palmetto bugs that fly :shock: i really hate them!
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Just Mother Nature's friendly way of telling you to change your underwear.
  • iamsam_pj
    iamsam_pj Posts: 300
    ugh...how i could forget the main reason why i hate them so much?!

    my family went to eat at a restaurant and a cockroach crawled out of my sister's burger...after she had already taken a bite :shock: needless to say, we just got up and left. my dad mentioned something to the server as we walked out the door...i've never eaten at that restaurant chain again!
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    DeLukin wrote:
    The vacuum won't kill it. It's still alive, waiting to crawl up the hose and back into your room... waiting for a chance at revenge which will probably involve laying eggs in your ears while you're sleeping... waiting to turn you into a walking roach incubator. Next time grab a can of Raid.

    Damn you, now you've made me paranoid! :lol:
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  • Heatherj43
    Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    Yuck! And its true. If you step on one it will die but all that white stuff that oozes out are eggs. It will now have babies in your vacuum. Oh and living in cold climates don't keep them away. I once worked in a restaurant here in Michigan that had them. My ex was in the military and we found out all army places, and areas around them have roaches. Military people travel and bring them with them.
    You can bring them home from grocery stores. They tend to live in the paper bags.
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