Have you ever seen a cockroach in person?

*Page* · 14-06-2005 09:12AM

when i lived in spain there were a good few

AARRRGH · 14-06-2005 09:15AM

Damn, on the "Latest Posts" section on the index page, the title of this thread was -

Have you ever seen a cock... (31)

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How disappointing.

Heheh.

Lola123 · 14-06-2005 09:20AM

Yup, saw loads in new york n in spain, n a few other places. They'd come up from the subway grates in NY.....they're horrible. They totally freaked me out.

Bard · 14-06-2005 09:22AM

only once... in America... all over a womans cooker.

Disgusting.

Lump · 14-06-2005 09:26AM

Yes I have, the mini ones. Not the American ones.

John

bringitdown · 14-06-2005 09:30AM

More juvenile antics:

/sniggers

thelordofcheese · 14-06-2005 09:36AM

yep, while on holiday in tennerife. Massive thing, about the lenght of my hand.

So we took a can of deoderant and a lighter and tried to torch the wee beastie.

the blasted thing JUST WOULDN'T DIE!

joejoem · 14-06-2005 09:41AM

Isnt Chesney Hawks a cockroach?

Dr. Loon · 14-06-2005 09:55AM

I dissected one in science many years ago. Saw a little bástard in New York last time I was over. That one got in due to us being a bunch of drunken filthy feckers with an overflowing, uncovered bin.

Praetorian · 14-06-2005 09:55AM

In a hotel in the states, picked him up and flushed him down the loo.

prospect · 14-06-2005 10:00AM

Lived in an apartment in brisbane for a short while back in 2001.

Was in the kitchen chopping carrots for de dinner, and the missus in the living room starts screaming :eek: . And I mean, REALLY REALLY SCREAMING.

So, think some drunken bum, had broken in, or sommit, i run out with the chopping knife, and she is standing on the couch pale as, em?, well, um.. very pale.

She'd picked up the paper to check the telly pages, and when she opened it there were two little cockroach buggers sitting there having a snooze

lol.

IO had to act hard and get rid of them, creepy little feckers.

wheres me jumpa · 14-06-2005 10:41AM

i was living in Boston last year and my apartment was infested with them! they werent too big though. it took about two months for us to get the exterminator in!

when the kitchen was busy there would be no sign of them but at night they would come out. which was weird when you would get up for a drink at 3 am and turn on the light, you could see at least 50 of of them scurrying away!

rugbug86 · 14-06-2005 11:06AM

i saw one in greece a few years back. was packing my suitcase and it was just there on the floor. i stood on it and threw things at it but the fecker refused to die. sprayed it, set fire to it and it still moved. eventually just put a glass over it and got in with my packing!

Stephen · 14-06-2005 11:15AM

I've never seen one in Ireland but have seen plenty of the bastards in the middle east... big ones too.

gick

I hate the sight of them... There's nothing as disconcerting as sitting down on the jacks for a nice big dump, only to glance down and see a big bastard of a cockroach in the bowl.

landser · 14-06-2005 11:20AM

how could i see a cockroach in person... this all a bit too kafkaesque for me. :eek:

tk123 · 14-06-2005 11:31AM

We had them in our place in the states..one morning I saw one running along so I caught it in a glass, the next day it was still alive so we sprayed some paper with roach killer and slid it under the glass to gas it to death, after a day it dropped it's eggsack and we were afriad babies would hatch so we flushed the roach+sack down the loo...

Zaph · 14-06-2005 11:40AM

Stayed with a mate in his grandparents' apartment in Tenerife about 10 years ago. We went out the first night and when we came back there were 3 big roaches in the kitchen because we had left the water boiler on and they're attracted to the heat, apparently. Didn't repeat that mistake. A couple of days later I went down to the building where the communal bins were kept to throw away our rubbish. I opened the door and just about everything, including the walls, was covered in roaches, there must have been hundreds of them. Never went near that place again for the rest of the week as it really freaked me out.

Pyr0 · 14-06-2005 11:45AM

Christ!! Could you imagine being locked in there :eek:

tk123 · 14-06-2005 11:48AM

pukey-mcpuke!!!!!!! - they'd go in your ear and lay eggs in your BRAIN!!!!!

Blisterman · 14-06-2005 12:52PM

Cockroaches are probebly the creepiest insect.

Clinical Waste · 14-06-2005 01:14PM

When we were kids we used to catch smaller ones and put them into matchboxs so we could carry them in our pockets, ever ready to be let loose on someones desk or in their schoolbag or lunchbox. Of cause then we got older and realised matchboxes were better for holding the matches to light your cigarettes..
In summer, xmas beetles were better cause they stuck in peoples hair when unleashed. (and watching people try to get them off was like watching a dog chasing its tail)

simu · 14-06-2005 01:30PM

landser wrote:

how could i see a cockroach in person... this all a bit too kafkaesque for me. :eek:

Or if you turned into one

landser · 14-06-2005 01:35PM

simu wrote:

Or if you turned into one

sin e

littlemiss · 14-06-2005 03:08PM

I have just come back from two weeks in Lanzarote. We saw a couple of dead/twitching cockroaches around our apartment complex the first week. Then a week ago, one carried out a stealth attack on me at 3 in the morning. He was cleverly concealed in the toilet roll and he pounced on me. Needless to say I screamed very loudly, my knight in boxers rode in on his flip flops and had to pull out the fridge in the kitchen in order to flatten it. I realised I do not like cockroaches.. or suprises. About an hour later I ventured into the bathroom again only to be greeted by some evil sod of a cockroach on the bath... cue second scream. Needless to say he got vanquished too. Due to the fact neither of us could sleep a wink after and were terrified of entering bathroom we spoke to the rep who arranged for us to change apartments that evening. While we were packing one clambered onto my boyfriends foot... he spent 5 minutes trying to flatten it as it ran up chairs and across the kitchen table. The fourth and final cockroach made it's appearance 10 minutes later where it attempted to climb the front door. He also was left in a cockroach shaped smudge on the floor. I can testify that these things ranged from 2-4 inches and they are as ugly as sin.... not to mention full of disease. Count your blessings you haven't met one on a dark night in your bathroom!

DrIndy · 14-06-2005 03:10PM

LOL!

Happened to a neighbour of mine who just came over from sweden. It was 2am, very dark and she was sitting out on the balcony in the middle of a group of houses when one decided to climb up her arm!

I was ROFL when she told me the story. they do get big, but 4" sounds excessive......

ro1798 · 14-06-2005 09:33PM

over in cambodia they had flying ones about one and a half inches, they used to attack in waves the walls and doors of the place we were staying, like a a machine gun stop about 2am.
every day we made up new and sicker ways to kill them best was gassing them with lynx africa they got the lynx effect alright

DrIndy · 14-06-2005 09:35PM

do a dragon - light the lynx spray with a lighter when you spray them.......

Cockroaches are a delicacy in some parts of the world. Remember to put a lid on the pan when you fry them though or they'll climb straight back out.....

bounty_hunter · 14-06-2005 09:37PM

OFDM wrote:

No doubt I'm jinxing myself now and will be attacked by a legion of the little feckers in the morning, but has anyone ever seen a cockroach in person?

In my 3 decades on this planet I've seen all sorts of disgusting insects but thankfully never a cockroach. Does this make me "special" or are there other Irish cockroach virgins out there?

I have. He threatened me with a knife.

chillywilly · 14-06-2005 09:38PM

haha, go to the bulletin board and the thread title comes up : have you ever seen a cock....

funny stuff

PurpleFistMixer · 14-06-2005 10:04PM

Don't recall ever seeing one in Ireland, although I used to go to this house place in Kerry that was crawling with various insects, and it's likely my young self witnessed but did not recognise cockroaches...

Saw a bunch in Chile, though. We got the head off one and it kept running around...
Loads in Easter Island too. The little house place I was staying in was crawling with them. It was horrible 'cause it lashes rain at least once a day there so I was stuck inside with a couple of cockroaches running around on the floor and if I went outside I'd get soaked and wouldn't dry off all day...

Have you ever seen a cockroach in person?

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