Oh my god! I was looking for something in a box that I store on top of my kitchen cabinets and this giant cockroach appears. It’s three inches long! I’ve only seen them that big in tropical third-world countries. I pray that it’ll go away, but then a few minutes later it reappears in the living room, and then it flies (FLIES! I didn’t know they could fly!) to the other wall. It scurries around my wall for five minutes (it felt like longer) and just disappear behind some furniture.
What do I do? Move out? It’s a rent-controlled apartment though.
Fantastik and Formula 409 both kill roaches, pretty quickly. Stream mode will allow a removed attack as well as ack-ack attack should the roach be airborne at the next encounter.
Oh my god! He reappeared on my floor, running full speed straight at me, but I had no weapon handy. So I went to look
:eek: :eek: :eek: You guys, I’m writing to you from the middle of a nasty battle.
Here’s what happened. I went for some 409 and discovered my cleaner is not in spray form. So I went for the Windex - better than nothing. When he came back a minute later I hit him with a few times, but all it did was piss him off. He flew straight at me, and I backed up but HE LANDED ON MY PANT LEG! I jumped and screamed and then he flew off my leg and then LANDED ON MY BARE FOOT! :eek: I run to the kitchen and find something called “Krud Kutter” that the last tenant left behind. I don’t know what it is but it sounds like it has some chemicals he won’t like. Every time I hit him with it, he flies toward me. Eventually he makes his way back to the area above the kitchen cabinets, where he came from. We have a truce, as long as he stays in his part of the apartment.
:eek: He’s back.
VICTORY IS MINE.
I caught him on the kitchen cabinets. Hit him with the Krud Kutter, and he seemed to be weakening. Then he fell in the sink, and it was all over. I soaked him in it, and seconds later his nasty little legs stopped moving.
Thanks, Ringo. I might not have thought of using cleaners otherwise.
shudder That’s one of the few things on this planet that can make this 230 pound man scream like a little girl. You’re just lucky it didn’t take to the air, ugh!
A real satisfying way to kill them I found is to nab it with a rag then run to the bathwoom and flick it into the toilet and flush its swimming ass down the tube. A mighty mwahahahaha to let it know victory was yours and it gets sucked under. There are other things you can do to humiliate it if you please but I usually rise above the temptation.
The first time I went to New Orleans I was fascinated by the two-inch long flying cockroaches. I’d never seen such a thing. By the second trip, the novelty had worn off.
You know, I had a dream last night that I think originated from reading this thread:
I was in bed and woke up when I felt something moving, and it looked kind of big. I grabbed a convieniently placed newspaper and tried to squish it, but when I lifted the paper whatever it was scurried out and crawled under my bed. When I peered over the edge there was the biggest looking bug, kind of like a foot long earwig with armor plating. There were a number of smaller ones (it’s god-forsaken progeny) scurrying around too. Ugh!
Fortunately my dreams don’t tend to bother me, 'cause I kept right on sleeping and probably moved onto dreams about cotton-candy clouds and bright summer days, but in retrospect it was pretty creepy. So, thanks for the pleasant dreams!
Osiris, go re-read chula’s posts. It did take to the air (and more than once)! I laughed out loud at “I didn’t know they could fly!”
Now, what makes you think flushing them down the toilet kills the things? I’m convinced they can hold their little breaths and breed in the sewers. I whack 'em with a slipper (my hubby’s size 12’s) or paper towel grab 'em and put 'em in the disposal. Love that grinding sound.
(I can’t believe I joined this board to talk about bugs!)
