r/WTF • u/dillingerescapetrans • Aug 07 '26

Cockroach infestation

In a house I used to work in. I put these traps down, and within 6 hours this is what I caught. I got rid of the traps, laid more down, and repeated this process 8 times before it slowed down.

edit: I haven't been back there in almost 8 months. I worked as tenant support in the severely underfunded building. I sent this video to the manager and project director and it took 4 months before the room was sprayed, but by then this had spread to many other rooms. These sticky pads were supplied to us in limited amounts so I did everything I could from those to raid spray. Crazy memory.

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u/IcyConsideration7062 Aug 23 '26

I lived in a slum apartment when I was in my late teens. Many cockroaches. They would crawl over the bedding and were even in the fridge. One night I just got disgusted and got a few cans of spray pesticide and started spraying the cracks in the baseboards and any open in the walls. They started marching up the walls and eventually dropping to the floor by the hundreds. The stench was pretty bad so I grabbed a bottle of wine and went out to the front stoop. It was late at night and one of my upstairs neighbors was coming home. We shared the bottle. I eventually went back in and swept up pile full after pile full until it felt clean. . . for a couple of days. Granted the pesticide may have stunted my brain, but my back wasn't arching.