my own personal war
 

juju - you sound like a randy quaid character.

what a great thread!

I now see about 4-5 per day. Alas, all my work has been for naught!!

My next step is to aquire the Maxforce Gel referenced above. I'm hoping that will work wonders. So far i've just been putting it off, though.

I killed a white roach a few days ago. It was really weird. I thought that maybe it was just covered in boric acid, but it didn't look like it. It really looked like that was its natural color. I've never heard of albino roaches before.

God dammit. They're mutating! Next thing you know, they'll be 10 feet tall. Just my luck.

FAYETTEVILLE, AR - In a freak accident of nature today, a philisophical but stubborn college student was killed when a ten-foot albino cockroach beat the sh*t out of him with a nearly empty jar of boric acid.
"Ah think this was jes' a war of wills," said local law enforcement Joe "Bubba" Clinton. "Fact is, yew shouldn't piss off a roach that kin drive yer truck."
Services are planned for Friday. The irate cockroach has been held for questioning, but inside sources say the hulking insect doesn't speak "Southern Drawl." Arraignment is postponed pending translation and/or giant RAID can.

You might try dusting with your favorite white power (flour or baking soda, the recreational stuff can get expensive) and look for tracks. That might tell you where they're coming from, and you can focus your death, destruction, and roadblock efforts there.

Dude, fabulous thread. Anyway get a couple cans of Great Stuff or similiar expanding foam insulation. Don't get the minimally expanding, you want the foam to swell and fill all those little gaps you're trying to block. The sticky stuff will swell out of the holes and drip on stuff so make sure everythings out of the way. Put the straw as deep in the holes as you can manage and fill it right up. Don't use it around your windows though, it can swell enough to put pressure on the frame and prevent it from sliding.

So they eat shit and die? COOL!!!!!!

I once lived in a roach-infested apt. My secret weapon was to bomb and bomb frequently. And to encourage all the neighbors to also do so ...

I kept having these visions of the final segment of Creepshow.

Uck.

I don't think I could bomb in good conscience, seeing how all my neighbors would probably get sick. Most of them illegally have pets, too. They'd probably all die. :]

And from what you've said, it sounds like some of the residents may be illegals too. Who cares? Bomb the place. ;)

The President assures us that we have smart bombs, so feel free to let fly. The billions spent on a bombing campaign could be spent moving into a nicer place... of course that means the roaches have won.

About a month ago, our apartment manager discovered another <b>huge</b> water leak underneath the ground between two buildings, and we were left without water for several days while they dug a humongous hole in the ground to fix it.

They also went to every individual apartment and fixed all the leaks that people never bothered to report.

I was pretty pissed about this at the time, but what I didn't realize was that this would have a huge imact on our roach population. When our water was cut off, I stopped seeing roaches entirely. They were just completely <b>gone</b>, even 2-3 days after the water was turned back on. A few days later, I sighted a few, and I just assumed that the population would just spring back to where it was before. But it hasn't! It's been about a month, and I now only see 1 roach every 3 or 4 days, instead of the 3-4 per day that it used to be.

It's pretty pathetic that I can be happy about such a thing, but it's so great! No water leaks equal no easy food for you, you little bastards!!!!


There's one other benefit, too. After I sprinkled the boric acid along the edge of every wall, the roaches all just started crawling along the walls. This really pissed me off!!! They even crawled high up along the wall, figuring I couldn't reach them if I saw them. Bastards. Well, now they're all <b>dead</b> from dehydration. <b>DEAD</b> I said! Now the new population will have to learn to avoid the floors for themselves

Ha! Hah hah! Round 2, I say!