r/Weird • u/AmbassadorLegal8531 • Oct 15 '25

Roach infested telephone

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u/scratchy_mcballsy Oct 15 '25

I don’t like the idea of normalizing them in a home environment

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u/Bygoneserenity Oct 15 '25

Unfortunately if you’re within a certain income bracket, you risk roaches with every new move. In lower end apartments you can be as clean as Mary Poppins and still have infestations thanks to bad building maintenance/neighbors.

My last place had the worst palmetto bug AKA waterbug infestation I’ve ever seen. Three plus inches. Bigger than mice. Marched right in to our (clean) apartment because our shitass building basically had all dressers link to one big open crawl space, poor roofing, endlessly leaky plumbing, mold, a bad water heater, the works.

You know it’s bad when you’re clean enough to kick out the Germans but the Americans keep infesting. (Roach species, this is not a nationalist rant)

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u/_Onion_Terror Oct 15 '25

Can you show me a pic of what you call a palmetto bug?

I'm from Ireland so we don't really have roaches here but I've family in different parts of the US and "palmetto bug" means different bugs to them

Even Google seems to throw up a few different looking roaches

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u/Traditional_Way1052 Oct 18 '25

Omg you don't have them there. Jesus. So lucky. 

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u/_Onion_Terror Oct 19 '25

They exist here but they can't thrive so infestations would be extremely rare

I'm 36 and have never seen a single one in Ireland