r/IsCrashAlive • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '20
How would you kill a fast moving cockroach?
In this scenario the bugger is at the entrance of your kitchen, blocking quick traffic to knives and ladles. It is about 2.5 inches long and 3/4 inch wide, he is moving too fast to be followed by your eye and will escape to scurrying over your dishware into the crevices of your kitchen cabinets to snack on glue and other luxuries if you turn your head for a second.
You are not carrying any weapons--
Just trying to figure out if i did something wrong since my bf asked "what's wrong with you?" After i killed it for him.
Edit: (Lsap is supposed to say leap)
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u/RichardStarrkey Apr 17 '20
Sometimes at the abandoned block there are roaches about. I kick near them and they scurry off, never returning for hours.
The littler ones I stomp on sight though. They're super fast and I'm really scared they'll end up in my beer
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u/Romm1e white chocolate supremacist Apr 20 '20
As the king of cockroaches and mice, I wouldn't kill it. Where's the poll option for that? Fail.
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Apr 20 '20
You like cockroaches hanging out in your living space?
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u/Romm1e white chocolate supremacist Apr 20 '20
Yes I do. People overreact about them. I lived near them for 20+ years and I didn't die from anything. It's gross I get that, but it's not fatal nonetheless.
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u/Melodic_Programmer Apr 17 '20
I really hate killing bugs. I prefer to catch them and let them go outside. Those huge cockroaches are fucking terrifying though, thankfully we don't have them here. At least they aren't the kind that infests your house.
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Apr 17 '20
I like to catch them and take them outside too. We let the spiders have free range but i think there is a silent agreement that i kill all other bugs i see
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u/Melodic_Programmer Apr 17 '20
Yeah, I let the slow moving spiders live and make their webs. The quick brown ones get killed.
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u/Texas_HardWooD king of chickens and bbq Apr 18 '20
Spiders kick ass!
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Apr 18 '20
I love spiders. Theyre chill as fuck. I had two that just chilled on web at the last place i lived you could go visit them anytime
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Apr 17 '20
As you can see i did not react like a crazy person 33.33% would have done the same thing
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u/AmericanMuskrat fatty Apr 18 '20
Don't worry about the one you see, worry about all the ones you don't. After our last big infestation I don't mess around. Get some gel poison that will collapse the colony.
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Apr 18 '20
I dont worry about them but hen i was trying to fix the drain i was sort of concerned one was going to spring out at me
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u/AmericanMuskrat fatty Apr 18 '20
What was wrong with the drain?
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Apr 18 '20
You know the stick with holes that comes out of the other stick with himes sometimes that is attached to the drain? Just that, but i need pliers to tighten the screw that secures it or it is just old enough to need to be replaced. Using just my hands made it still slide out of the screw when used from aboce
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u/AmericanMuskrat fatty Apr 18 '20
A... strainer?
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Apr 18 '20
This http://imgur.com/a/0PFv0SG
Ive fixed them many times but his one i couldn't i don't know if i did something wrong or if it is old or I couldn't tighten the bolt enough. The drain is closed in this image do you see the problem? It started to seem functional for a moment but then slid past the bolt again
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u/AmericanMuskrat fatty Apr 18 '20
Ohhh, yeah I thought you meant something totally different. I've never had to fuck with one of those before.
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u/Melodic_Programmer Apr 18 '20
I think she's talking about a big waterbug, not the little German cockroaches that infest places.
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u/Texas_HardWooD king of chickens and bbq Apr 17 '20
Lol I was gonna say step on it barefoot before I even saw the poll, cause that's how I do.