Only a hard choice if you’ve never dealt with roaches. 1000 roaches is enough to convince me that the house would never be free of them ever, roaches are incredible in the way they survive and thrive. Unless you made sure you killed every single last one and their offspring, you ain’t getting rid of them.
how friendly is the person?
I have over 1000 dubia roaches in my house already. I’m going with them.
But what would happen to the person if they’re not in my attic? I wouldn’t want them to get run over by a trolley.
a person, I only have to exterminate one large thing vs 1000 tiny things that could potentially crawl up my pee hole in my sleep.
no thanks.
How wide is your urethra that a roach can fit up there?
doesn’t matter, they love warm moist dark cracks.
that’s why they’re called cockroaches
Hey I learned this earlier today! Entomology is so interesting.
So is etymology, and in that earlier comment @[email protected] is technically practicing both.
No it isn’t. Cockroach is derived from the Spanish “cucaracha” which comes from “cuca” which means “butterfly caterpillar” and is apparently onomatopoeic in origin.
Also the idea of them crawling into your urethra is a myth like earwigs and ears.
You can kill one person. You can’t kill 1000 roaches.
Bro, it’s not a CEO, they have human rights.
But what if they are 🧐
not for long
as someone that has a person living in their attic … FOR FREE, RUPERT … I would say neither.
One might expect 1000 roaches in the attic; ain’t nobody expecting a person.
Depends on the person…
oh yeah, i would let David Attenborough live in my attic any day of the week.
Someone who just desperately needed shelter? Okay, fine. Someone who is caked in their own waste, with insane ramblings scrawled across their skin in blood? Uh, bring on the roaches, I guess.
Considering the overlap between homelessness and untreated mental disorders, sadly both of your descriptions are likely to fit the potential attic-dweller.
Didn’t worry, they brought their own roaches as well
FML
Person. Charge retroactively for rent
1000 persons.
A person, unless the way I found out is they’re trying to murder me and/or my family.
You can solve both problems by throwing 5 bug bombs in there
It’s my understanding that gel works better, that bug bombs just make them scatter to other units if you live in an apartment building.
It’s hard to apply the gel as they may fight back, but gassing them is a better bet, unless they have a gasmask. But in that case I guess they may also have a knife, so the gel is still a nogo.
Jesus you folks must have wild roaches in Denmark. Sounds like “don’t go out at night” or “make sure your gun is loaded before entering the woods” kind of thing. Stay safe.
Not sure if you are referring to the roaches or a person.
Right like are you looking to fight them and win, or get them out, those are two very different things
The roaches. At least you know their true nature, not surprising to find them there and, in days of high frustration, one can go up and stomp a few for that crunchy sound of bug demise.
Sounds like you’ve never had the misfortune of being somewhere with a roach infestation.
Or maybe they already have a roach infestation because they live in filth and don’t care.
Personally, I’d go for the person. Roach phobia entirely not factoring in here.
My attic is over a detached garage. If someone can access that space somehow, and wants to live there, whatever. It’s roomy enough to be fairly comfortable, tho you can’t stand up straight, and it’s insulated with electric outlets, so I’m not suuuuper likely to find a frozen person in spring. Not great, but as long as they don’t leave a mess or whatever, meh, doesn’t harm me any beyond electrical use. I probably wouldn’t even find out about it for a long time, since I never go up there; the ladder is duct-taped where it cracked at some point, and I can’t be bothered to replace it.
Roaches, however, would not stay contained to the garage. That’s a deal-breaker.
Look at this guy, he doesn’t comprehend the true nature of man or like human crunch.
Human Crunch sounds like the dollar store version of Captain Crunch.
No way, you won’t be able to get the roaches out nearly as easy as the person
Dude, roaches can fly…
Depends on the ambient temperature, no? I was under the understanding that roaches don’t typically fly in northern states because it’s colder.
Just the fact that they can is enough for me to avoid them. Ain’t showing up with a thermometer to see if they decide to fly today 😔
person, though a much more difficult encounter it’d probably cost nothing to get them out of there, and the likehood of them coming back is much lower. all it’d take for the roaches to come back is the exterminator missing 2 or 4 of them
One female roach can lay millions of eggs.
Honestly depending on the person I’d probably just let them live there. The attic is unused and all people deserve not to sleep outside
it’d probably cost nothing to get them out of there
Depending on where you are, it might be impossible.
