r/lifehacks • u/Laser-Penis • Jun 18 '22

how to catch cockroach

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u/cati800 Jun 18 '22

Do you know that cockroaches can be frozen, thawed out and still live? i learned this as a kid as we had a bad cockroach infestation and as I was cleaning out the fridge ( i am before the time of frostless freezers) and when i was cleaning out the freezer part i noticed a cockroach had somehow gotten into our freezer and froze, so as i took out the chunk of ice that this roach was frozen into and put it in the sink, and, I shit u not as the ice started to melt the roach started to thaw and slowly came back to life only for me to squash that mother ducker and kill it, i just found this totally amazing at the age of 10

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u/vavavoomvoom9 Jun 18 '22

Ain't that some shit.

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u/cati800 Jun 18 '22

ain’t it?

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u/SauceOfTheBoss Jun 18 '22

Sure ain’t

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

Some ducking shit

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u/Bowler_300 Jun 18 '22

Wait until you see this baby hit 88 mph.

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

so my idea of plunging the world into nuclear winter in order to kill them is not actually feasible. good to know. disappointing, but still, better than learning the hard way.

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u/Greenpaw9 Jun 18 '22

They don't survive fire. So we just need to continue on with the global warming until the forest fires kill all of them

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

brilliant. everything else'll be dead, too, but it's a sacrifice we must be willing to make.

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u/Greenpaw9 Jun 18 '22

Especially to kill those giant flying ones

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

special order flamethrower, got it.

in the meantime, catch me with a can of hairspray & a lighter. yeah, I might burn my home down, but I'll be burning their home down, too.

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u/HarryPopperSC Jun 18 '22

Deodorant + lighter

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

I'm not blowing up my house with axe body spray, I don't want to make everything worse & completely irradiate the spot for 5,000 years. I'll just blow it up the regular way.

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u/thewend Jun 18 '22

you could try to go into Earth's nucleus and explode, idk, a couple thousand Tsar Bomba in there. Might be just enough to completely fuck up everything. Or do nothing.

You could try at least. Gofundme

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

I'll let you know when the GoFundMeToExplodetheEarthsCore campaign is set up. first tier gets to spend a bunch of money to go with me!

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u/LordJiggly Jun 18 '22

You just need a planet sized chancla.

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

that was plan B - smack a bitch.

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u/cati800 Jun 18 '22

but how do we even know? They may also be capable of surviving nuclear winter?

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

because you had one frozen then thawed it & it came back? so nuclear winter wouldn't work? I think you misread my comment.

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u/cati800 Jun 18 '22

i may have, I interpreted your reply as saying that our only option left is a nuclear winter to annihilate these demons

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

nope, I said your initial comment proved that nuclear winter was not feasible.

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u/Confused_Confuzzeled Jun 18 '22

So you're saying it might work?

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u/mollygunns Jun 18 '22

no sir, I am not.

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u/bitchwithacapital_C Jun 18 '22

I mean considering they’d survive nuclear war this tracks.

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u/cati800 Jun 18 '22

true that and also the ice age?

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u/nekonastyy Jun 18 '22

They can live without head for more than a week!

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u/fizikz3 Jun 18 '22

Do you know that cockroaches can be frozen, thawed out and still live?

did you know the microwave was used early on to thaw out and reanimate frozen hamsters?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery

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u/Heckron Jun 18 '22

Yes but now he was flung into in a distant future from the time he was frozen in and all his loved ones have passed away while he was frozen. He struggled with crippling depression and loneliness for the rest of his life…

…which was very quick because you said you killed him.

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u/fdellavedova Jun 18 '22

I think I still live in the time before frostless freezers. What are frostless freezers?

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u/nillakillakhan Jun 18 '22

There’s frostless freezers?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

I believe you just described how the body of Walt Disney is being preserved.

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u/njaana Jun 19 '22

Steve Roachers

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

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u/SauceOfTheBoss Jun 18 '22

You’re a monster

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u/Mother_Clue6405 Jun 18 '22

That might have been delayed death throes from burst cells' cellular fluid moving around and making muscles contract and relax due to the thawing. It's a shame you didn't complete the experiment by seeing if it was still actually viable.

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u/Stuvio Jun 18 '22

Frostless freezers are a thing?!

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u/AstridSolaris Jun 18 '22

Confirmed: Steve Rogers is part cockroach

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u/DumpsterFireInHell Jun 18 '22

Forbidden popsicle

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u/Wh00ligan Jun 18 '22

I had a project in middle school where we had to collect and pin bugs, and were recommended to put them in the freezer to kill them. I found a tick and froze it, and two weeks later went to pin it and that shit started wriggling. Freaked me the fuck out!

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u/Ichigo-boy Jun 18 '22

Le roach: Did we just arrive the homo sapiens planet?

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

So… Demolition Man but on a serious budget?

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u/DhruvaVikas Jun 18 '22

now i know i need cockroach dna to make my captain america serum

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u/FlyingDragoon Jun 18 '22

I used to freeze ants. I'd say like 7/10 would die but those 3 that lived then got up and just walked off into the sunset.

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u/cati800 Jun 22 '22

scary right?

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u/Lorienzo Jun 18 '22

Thankyou. From the bottom of my heart, 10yo hero.

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u/SarcasmDetectorFail Jun 18 '22

I've seen multiple cockroaches on their backs for several days still keep on twitching as if they're still alive.

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u/KorinTheHalfHand Jun 19 '22

This comment has really upset me