IamA-BFG

Tools needed: 1 small container with a screw-on lid.

What you do is you slowly walk up to the roach, let it walk around for a small amount (no sudden movements by you) and then, quickly, put the container on top of the roach and hold it there.

Now, leave the roach like this until it begins to get a little curious and starts moving towards your hand...give it a few seconds and then do a quick test of lifting the cup up ever so slightly. If the roach stays where it is, quickly move the cup up and screw the lid on. Otherwise, put the cup down and repeat this step until it works.

With the lid screwed on, shake the cup as rapidly as you can and in all sorts of directions. Keep doing this until you can tell you have given the roach a concussion.

At this point, go to the nearest toilet, unscrew the lid, dump the roach in, and flush.

Wash container afterwards (it will smell really bad).

PS, I wouldn't recommend using that container for ANYTHING ELSE after that...let it be your roach catching container

soulfire

LBritneyForeverG: damn roaches stink so bad
soulfire 10: OMG
soulfire 10: OMG IM SCARED OF THEM
LBritneyForeverG: well, I keep washing my hands but they STILL have a hint of dead roach smell on them
LBritneyForeverG: dammit!
LBritneyForeverG: that's some strong funk
soulfire 10: OMFG YOU TOUCHED ONE
LBritneyForeverG: well how the hell else do you kill it?
soulfire 10: WITH A SHOE
LBritneyForeverG: and then?
soulfire 10: put on a plastic glove and SEVERAL napkins and pick it up
soulfire 10: or be like me and call your mom
LBritneyForeverG: your hand is going to come in contact either with the roach or with the place where the roach was smushed at some point
soulfire 10: not me!
LBritneyForeverG: or, in my most recent case, while trying to clean out a container which just will NOT get clean

*HighVoltage*

Umm, eww. I can honestly say, i've never seen one in person.

Hotfuss

I haven't.. and glad of it.. although this big beetle fell on me once the size of a roach i'm told..

Søren

If I had a hardball version of the M16A2 rifle, I could think of at least one other way of killing them (oh, yeah... and spiders... which would probably be more likely - not having roaches around here) .

Kattie

Best way (and faster too):

1)Pick up shoe
2) Hit the roach hard with the shoe
3)Repeat as necessary
4) Get a paper towel/toilet paper
5)Pick it up and flush it or throw away the carcass


BTW i've never encountered a roach smell....


Bleach

Green Ranger

LMAO omg u guys r crazy....................

IamA-BFG

There are several reasons why that method is neither better nor faster.

It smears roach guts all over your shoe, assuming you even hit it, which, the roach will probably live and get away even if you DO hit it...they are quite hardy and very fast! Plus, even IF you can somehow kill the roach with your shoe, your shoe will smell ever so nasty as will wherever the spot was that the roach was when you smashed him---how will you clean that?

My method only makes the container you use smell nasty and nothing else

If you have encountered roaches but never the roach smell then either one of two things

1: The roaches you have there are of a different variety than the ones here. The ones here DO smell and VERY BAD and it is quite strong but they only start to really smelling bad once you kill them. Also, in this case, I am assuming the roaches you have are slow enough you can actually hit them with a shoe and also weaker than the roaches here, since one hard smack apparently kills the ones there (it takes at least a few hard smacks to do any sort of damage to the ones here)

2: Your sense of smell is desensitized to the roach smell and/or your sense of smell is not so good. Also, in this case, I am assuming you have faster reflexes than I do and stronger hits on the roach on initial hit than I do. I've got excellent reflexes, so if yours are faster, that's amazing!

I'm leaning towards # 1

Raina_ea

Omigosh I don't kill anything.. if I see a roach, I pick it up and take it outside. I'm no murderer.

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IamA-BFG

If you do that, then you've just increased the roach population by about a hundred or so over a very short amount of time---that's just one more roach which can breed with the rest, and they have large amounts of offspring.

They are called pests for a reason. As far as I am concerned, as long as they stay outside, fine. Once they come in the house, if I catch them, I kill them because I don't want more of them. If you let it go, you'll soon find MANY more.

I do, however, find it admirable that you don't kill anything. Does this mean you are also a vegetarian? ...otherwise you eat animals which other people have killed.