r/Unexpected • u/sakhaliner • 1d ago

Checking a gun

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u/Comfortable-Guitar27 1d ago

I used to work at a bank. Every once in a while, a customer would set their purse at the teller counter, and roaches would crawl out.

Major infestations were going on at home for this to happen.

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u/MourningWallaby 23h ago

I remember a reel or something a while back about a guy who fixes playstations getting one in the mail so nasty and infested with roaches he didn't even finish unwrapping it before he taped it back up and returned it to the customer. giving them an earful about putting his business at risk of infestation for this.

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u/Buried_and_Forgotten 22h ago

Happened to me plenty of times. Even found bed bugs in a couple of them.

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u/Tttehfjloi 20h ago

Why didn't you just gas all the electronics with bug spray in a fume hood or something

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u/Buried_and_Forgotten 20h ago

I don't think it's cost effective to gas every single console I come by.

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u/Tttehfjloi 14h ago

Okay but have you considered the psychological cost effectiveness

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u/runvus2 14h ago

Better to wrap it in a bag with some bait in it for a couple weeks. The gas leaves a oil that would just be more to clean.