damn roaches

In reply to grinch77:

1987 Bellows Beach resort Hawaii took a sip of my can of coke and had a roach go in my mouth. That same day we found a scorpion in the shower and the next day my little brother was bitten by a poisonous millipede. My mother slept the next 3 nights in the car.

I am wondering what level of infestation is allowed before the board of health comes down. We are talking about a place that serves food and alcohol

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On the grossout factor, I once had a bird E36 M3 on my face while I was riding my bike. THAT was gross as hell.

heh.. I own a bird.. having one E36 M3 on you loses it's gross factor after a while.

Now when they E36 M3 into your food or drink right before you are about to partake.. that is a different matter

I had a bird E36 M3 in my eye while I was riding my bike. Hurt like hell, but nowhere near the grossout factor of bedbugs. I just think about them and my skin starts twitching like a horse with a fly.

Why'd you spit it out? Roaches have a nice sweet taste.

Lesley wrote: I had a bird E36 M3 in my eye while I was riding my bike. Hurt like hell, but nowhere near the grossout factor of bedbugs. I just think about them and my skin starts twitching like a horse with a fly.

At least you didn't have a hook for a hand.

Buddy of mine had a bird E36 M3 in his hand when he was opening the car door. He ran in the house, grabbed his .22 and started shooting in the trees in his front yard. Well, it was funny till the po po showed up and he was charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits.

Bedbugs... ewww. Makes my skin crawl.

Roaches are a fact of life down here. We hunt them with BB guns.

I have, no lie, watched one pick up a potato chip and carry it off.

Lightweights.I'll not bore you with the sordid details. Abandoned house trailer, food in fridge. I had boots on,thankfully

The military housing I grew up in was filthy with roaches, thankfully the little kind. Being a 4 unit town house, there was no getting rid of them. They never bothered me, but I'm happy I haven't dealt with them since I moved 16 years ago.

I take it none of you have ever gone into a sewer. For fun.

Chest waders can easily be rendered useless.

Derick Freese wrote: I take it none of you have ever gone into a sewer. For fun. Chest waders can easily be rendered useless.

Not for fun but I did work for a short time as a sewer unclogger do to my slight build. Bloated dead dog carcase plugging up the pipes dont pull them selves out.

An acquaintance long ago had a one man shop in his back yard, he did mostly MGs but would beat on other brands for $. There was a Civic CVCC sitting outside his shop; he said when he opened the door roaches were everywhere. He had thrown a bug bomb in it the previous day, there were corpses EVERYWHERE. And th woman who owned it had driven it there. AAAUUUGGGGGHHH.

Derick Freese wrote: I take it none of you have ever gone into a sewer. For fun. Chest waders can easily be rendered useless.

I only ever did underground junction boxes.. not too much in the way of vermin.. now used needles.. that is a different story

mad_machine wrote: I only ever did underground junction boxes.. not too much in the way of vermin.. now used needles.. that is a different story

In the unoccupied public housing units, we learned pretty quickly to flip light switches with a ruler. For some reason it was common to find used needles jammed in next to the toggle, pointy side out.

This is why I like living in a cold climate.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: That's horrible man. I am in and out of houses day in, day out. Most of the houses in the Ghetto have roaches. One time at an elderly ladies house, she was having an issue with her tv in her bedroom, but the lights didn't work, so I went in with a flashlight. About a hundred of them scattered when I shined my light on the wall. I waltzed my happy ass right out the door. There have been days that I have been so skeeved out that I call my wife and tell her to start the washing machine on hot. As soon as I walk in the door, I strip naked and throw everything in the wash and my boots out into the garage. Then I fly into the shower. Great now I'm skeeved out again.

You must do either cable or tv repair. I do Satellite TV service repair and have similar horror stories.

We don't have many roaches in Northern Wisconsin. The only place I've seen one was in Madison. What we do have around here are ticks. They suck your blood, turn in to a grape sized blood sac, drop off, release eggs, and then little ticks scurry about. I found a bunch of little ticks in my dirty laundry on my floor where my dog was laying. Those underwear went to the trash.

Before they get fat with blood it's damn near impossible to squish them with your fingers. You need to use something hard, sharp, pointy or fire to kill them. Oh, and they give you diseases. I've personally picked well over 100 ticks off of one dog in an afternoon. Talk about a sleepless night of scratching and feeling everything crawling on your body. For your own personal horror:

Ticks suck your blood. Spread Lyme disease and others. Way worse than roaches, fortunately not as prolific around here. Yes, I have spent time picking them off dogs, but it's been a while.

Osterkraut wrote: In reply to mad_machine: Silly little roaches qualify for one of the grossest things ever? Soft life! < Was once forced to suck the eyeball out of a freshly killed rabbit.

What's the end game there? Is it like eating the heart of your first kill/catch? Personally, I'll take heart over eyes. Also, who the berkeley eats rabbits?

I keep a small plastic bottle filled with cotton balls and isopropol alcohol. Place the tick in there and he will suffocate, but still be available for ID in case of Lyme disease or RM Spotted Fever symptoms.