Have you ever seen a cockroach in person?

Clinical Waste

When we were kids we used to catch smaller ones and put them into matchboxs so we could carry them in our pockets, ever ready to be let loose on someones desk or in their schoolbag or lunchbox. Of cause then we got older and realised matchboxes were better for holding the matches to light your cigarettes..
In summer, xmas beetles were better cause they stuck in peoples hair when unleashed. (and watching people try to get them off was like watching a dog chasing its tail)

simu

landser wrote:

how could i see a cockroach in person... this all a bit too kafkaesque for me. :eek:

Or if you turned into one

landser

simu wrote:

Or if you turned into one

sin e

littlemiss

I have just come back from two weeks in Lanzarote. We saw a couple of dead/twitching cockroaches around our apartment complex the first week. Then a week ago, one carried out a stealth attack on me at 3 in the morning. He was cleverly concealed in the toilet roll and he pounced on me. Needless to say I screamed very loudly, my knight in boxers rode in on his flip flops and had to pull out the fridge in the kitchen in order to flatten it. I realised I do not like cockroaches.. or suprises. About an hour later I ventured into the bathroom again only to be greeted by some evil sod of a cockroach on the bath... cue second scream. Needless to say he got vanquished too. Due to the fact neither of us could sleep a wink after and were terrified of entering bathroom we spoke to the rep who arranged for us to change apartments that evening. While we were packing one clambered onto my boyfriends foot... he spent 5 minutes trying to flatten it as it ran up chairs and across the kitchen table. The fourth and final cockroach made it's appearance 10 minutes later where it attempted to climb the front door. He also was left in a cockroach shaped smudge on the floor. I can testify that these things ranged from 2-4 inches and they are as ugly as sin.... not to mention full of disease. Count your blessings you haven't met one on a dark night in your bathroom!

DrIndy

LOL!

Happened to a neighbour of mine who just came over from sweden. It was 2am, very dark and she was sitting out on the balcony in the middle of a group of houses when one decided to climb up her arm!

I was ROFL when she told me the story. they do get big, but 4" sounds excessive......

ro1798

over in cambodia they had flying ones about one and a half inches, they used to attack in waves the walls and doors of the place we were staying, like a a machine gun stop about 2am.
every day we made up new and sicker ways to kill them best was gassing them with lynx africa they got the lynx effect alright

DrIndy

do a dragon - light the lynx spray with a lighter when you spray them.......

Cockroaches are a delicacy in some parts of the world. Remember to put a lid on the pan when you fry them though or they'll climb straight back out.....

bounty_hunter

OFDM wrote:

No doubt I'm jinxing myself now and will be attacked by a legion of the little feckers in the morning, but has anyone ever seen a cockroach in person?

In my 3 decades on this planet I've seen all sorts of disgusting insects but thankfully never a cockroach. Does this make me "special" or are there other Irish cockroach virgins out there?

I have. He threatened me with a knife.

chillywilly

haha, go to the bulletin board and the thread title comes up : have you ever seen a cock....

funny stuff

PurpleFistMixer

Don't recall ever seeing one in Ireland, although I used to go to this house place in Kerry that was crawling with various insects, and it's likely my young self witnessed but did not recognise cockroaches...

Saw a bunch in Chile, though. We got the head off one and it kept running around...
Loads in Easter Island too. The little house place I was staying in was crawling with them. It was horrible 'cause it lashes rain at least once a day there so I was stuck inside with a couple of cockroaches running around on the floor and if I went outside I'd get soaked and wouldn't dry off all day...

BlitzKrieg

damn it i am curious now, been trying to find some here in new york and i cant see any...i'mmessed in the head.

Drag00n79

My only experiences with cockroaches:
When I was sixteen or so I got a summer job working in a bakery. I had to fold the whitebread dough and put it into metal shapes which were stacked up behind me. It was really hot and I remember I used to have to turn the metal shapes upside down to shake out the roaches. Most of these shapes had one or two in them. Sometimes many would fall out and you would have to kinda tapdance on them to kill them all.

One day one of the other workers found a white cockroach. (I assumed he was eating too much flour or something!) This other guy was a bit odd though and said the albino roach would be his pet. He kept him in a big matchbox for three days before he ate his way out of it.

EDIT: The bakery has since closed down.

Easily_Irritated

I've only ever seen one and that was in Liverpool when I was there in holidays about 6 years ago. it was under the kitchen sink. Horrible smelly things. With big antena (?) on their heads. They're also fairly spritely on their feet. Altho, in saying that Ididn't stick around too long to take a good look.

Oh yes, my point being. That was in Liverpool and the english climate isin't exactly dramatically different than ireland. So I'd imagine you could find em here.

Makaveli

Family Guy wrote:

I have to warn you we have a bad roach problem.
Roach - I'ma cut you so bad, you gon' wish I didn't cut you so bad
Brian - Them some bad roaches!

http://www.mgunit.com/images/thumbs/badroaches.jpg

I've seen one once, in Morocco. Big, disgusting yoke.

Tar.Aldarion

mmm cockroach good eatin

Easily_Irritated

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

mmm cockroach good eatin

ewwww

me thinks, someones been watching too much fear factor :P

Tar.Aldarion

ya its on like every night at 1 so its all good

Clinical Waste

Easily_Irritate wrote:

I've only ever seen one and that was in Liverpool when I was there in holidays about 6 years ago. it was under the kitchen sink. Horrible smelly things. With big antena (?) on their heads. They're also fairly spritely on their feet. Altho, in saying that Ididn't stick around too long to take a good look.

Oh yes, my point being. That was in Liverpool and the english climate isin't exactly dramatically different than ireland. So I'd imagine you could find em here.

Do they smell?

Irish Musician

Hi Clinical
Delighted to oblidge.Took the photo myself then ate it with a nice chianti. SLURP SLURP SLURP SLURP!Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!Aaaaaaaaah

bohsboy

Seen loads in Mountjoy!