# Totally squicked out (roach related)

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 19, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-squicked-out-roach-related/357462 "2006-05-19T21:58:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-squicked-out-roach-related/357462/21 "2006-05-27T05:18:42Z")

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Total cessation of life for a roach sounds pretty damn good. I hate how the sprays let them live long enough to crawl back under the stove or behind the cabinet so I can’t actually SEE the corpses. How do I know they’re not all taking a little roach shower back there, washing off the Raid, huh? (OK, OK I know it’s far-fetched…)  
It does me no good to envision the corpse attracting the interest of a passing ant or two to run and tell his friends about the new food source.

Dammit, I need closure!

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**Author:** ![Kiminy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Kiminy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiminy)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-squicked-out-roach-related/357462/22 "2006-05-28T04:55:43Z")

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When I was in grad school, there was a gi-normous roach that lived in the women’s restroom in the wing of the department where I worked as a TA, on the sixth floor of the building. None of us wanted to squash it, because _all_ of us knew that it was easier to ignore a roach that ran away from you than it was to have to clean up a squashed bug that size.

One day, a colleague and I decided that the best approach was to catch the roach and drop it out the window. So we did. We watched that sucker fall down six stories, banging against the building wall several times on the way down. It landed on a cement sidewalk, and was large enough that we could see its brown shape even from the sixth floor, _as it scurried away from the building_!

Those things are NOT easy to kill!

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**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-squicked-out-roach-related/357462/23 "2006-05-28T15:43:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Beware of Doug]  
I dunno whether you out-squick me and my innocent swatting of a mama housefly when I was small, who promptly released umpteen dozen eensy jiggly maggots right before my well and truly grossed-out young eyes.  
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This happened to me once too. Just the grossest thing I’d ever seen.

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