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I wish I was. It was about 40 years ago, right after I graduated college. When I visited the apt, I chased off some guy who was trying to break into the apt next door with a crowbar.
The fumigation worked until that house was fumigated and then the cockroaches simply marched back into our building.
The apt that I lived in had to be completely repainted by me since the previous owner painted the walls and the wood work black.
Meh. Search in the forum for my post on how to get rid of them. Not going to repeat myself, other than to say I cleared MAJOR infestations out of movie theatres in a few days.
In some states, pretty much everyone has them but a lot of people do nto know it.
Catch a handful. Put them in a skillet with olive oil, Lawyries seasoned salt, some lemon, and a bit of garlic. Makes a nice munching snack. Kind of like chex mix.
This is the most disgusting post i've EVER read in these parts!!!! *vomit*
This is the most disgusting post i've EVER read in these parts!!!! *vomit*
People eat bugs all over the world. Look up Mopane worms. They are actually a nice snack once you are able to force yourself to put them in your mouth.
Cockroaches are a fact of life, especially in apartments. Just because you're clean, doesn't mean all the neighbors are. Here, the apartment complexes have pest control services that come every week or two weeks. You just go into the office and get your apartment on the list for the next service date. Not a big deal...and then the roaches go live in the less clean apartments in the building, the ones that are not calling for pest control.
It's always a good idea to keep food like flour, rice, sugar, etc...in airtight plastic containers rather than in the bags they come in. Cornmeal should be frozen overnight when you bring it home and then stored in an airtight container and discarded after several months. I never had trouble with cockroaches in the kitchen though, it was usually in the bathrooms.
I never had trouble with cockroaches in the kitchen though, it was usually in the bathrooms.
They hid behind my stove. When I turned it on at night they crawled up the walls. That's when I shot them on their backs with RAID. It was the only thing that stopped them--a direct hit.
One time I was a the beach in REhobeth, Delaware with my then fiancee(currently my wife of 38 years). They were fumigating one of the big apartment complexes on the boardwalk and the little buggers were running in a line about 3 inches wide for the beach. My wife didn't seen them and stepped on to their "line". That's when about 5 of them ran up her legs and into her sun dress. She started screaming and dancing and hitting herself, and nobody knew with the problem was. I'm sure that if it hadn't been the boardwalk on a crowded night, the dress would have come right off. We did our best to calm her down and get the little buggers off her. After 40 years its a funny story, but surely not then and not for some years after that.
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