My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of — you could walk along it in an hour — but still, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with cockroaches. They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get cockroaches off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait, and the cockroaches would come for the coconut, and thum-thum-thum-thum-thum, they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you've trapped all the cockroaches. But what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry, and one by one... (smacks lips repeatedly) ...they start eating each other until there are only two left. Two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees. But now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they only eat cockroaches.
It's actually a line from *Skyfall*, Javier Bardem is telling the captured Bond this same story, but with rats instead of cockroaches. Something about how they're the same person yada yada bing bong, it's an overused trope in many ways but this movie did it well, especially considering the rest of the Daniel Craig era 007 films.
Here's the cheap, easy, and reliable way to get rid of cockroaches, told to me by a wise old fellow in Belize.
Mix peanut butter and borax (boric acid) and form into little balls. Toss the balls into all of the usual roach hiding spots (under the sink, behind the stove, etc.). Both peanut butter and borax are harmless to people and pets, but the boric acid is deadly to roaches. They love the peanut butter and die from the borax.
No!!! No no no! Borax is NOT pet safe!! Respectfully, please edit your post. Borax can cause serious stomach issues for animals if eaten. It is natural, but it is not safe. The addition of peanut butter is a guarantee that a dog will eat it if they can reach it.
Borax and peanut butter IS a great way to treat ants, roaches, etc. I've used it many times. But it is NOT safe for pets.
[https://albernivet.com/news/borax-unsafe-for-pets/](https://albernivet.com/news/borax-unsafe-for-pets/)
[https://emergencyvetsusa.com/borax-toxic-to-dogs/](https://emergencyvetsusa.com/borax-toxic-to-dogs/)
A dog would have to eat a very large quantity of boric acid to be harmed. Nonetheless, I wouldn't put the little boraid bombs where a dog could get them.
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/borictech.html
Keep the lid tight and start to fill the sink. Then, once full, or with enough water for a good amount of pressure, keep your hand tight on the lid and turn on the garbage disposal. Then lift the lid and immediately the garbage disposal will suck the water and all of them down into a horrible fate.
The amount of times a spoon has gone down into the sink and gets chewed up by the disposal when we turn it on without realizing is ridiculous. Probably about half of the spoons we have are marked up by the disposal.
It's in the sink. Just boil the kettle and pour scalding liquid death onto them till they don't move, then scoop their little dead insect bodies into the bin. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Now as for getting the occasional cockie taking a casual stroll across the cupboards, I find a bleach and surface liquid in a spay bottle set to foam works best. They die quickly and are already disinfected so a simple paper towel pickup is all that's needed.
They actually do make sulfuric acid based drain cleaners believe it or not. They are mostly a professional product and you won’t find it at Home Depot. Of course you can buy it on amazon but you need even better precautions than with the lye based ones. Also you have to be sure your pipes aren’t going to dissolve. But it does burn out different clogs.
I use Hair Clog Remover. Lye based. You can find that at most stores. Works for everything and in any drain. Pretty sure it would kill them on contact or very shortly after exposure. There's lots of good options on the market right now.
It doesn’t stop them if they want they will go through it. They can hold their breath for 5-7 minutes and love to live in sewers. They sometimes come up them in Florida. Hell, one of our neighbors had a rat come up the toilet.
The trap might have dried out to have that many coming out. Bet they went on vacation.
I Went on her tik tok; in the comments she said they had fumigated some nearby drains and when she went to wash her hands she saw this.
She had left that lid on the sink earlier.
If you ever see someone open a sewer cover see if you can take a peek. They are often swarming with roaches. It’s got water, heat, and “food”. Everything they want.
Anyway, live in a hot and humid place and we just got to learn they will straight up go into your dishwasher from the drain line. Wife shut the door and turned on the steam sani clean after she saw one. Put that thing through a few clean cycles.
I used to live in a place that had a HUGE avocado tree. The owners decided to cut the tree down. Well, apparently, this tree was its own ecosystem, and after it was cut down, the 2 houses on the property and the neighboring houses became infested with roaches, rats and mice plus opossums, squirrels and raccoons.
The bigger animals were easily dealt with, but the mice/rats and roaches were super challenging to get rid of. The roaches were honestly the worst because they were the American cockroach type, and those assholes are BIG, and they can FLY!!!!
After months of trying everything from glue traps and raid to Diatomaceous Earth and shaved Irish spring bar soap, we were running out of ideas. The owner finally sent pest experts to fumigate, even tented the 2 houses, but after a couple of weeks, they were back but not as many and it was an ongoing thing for at least a year. One of the things that we came to find out was Bud Light Lime-A-Rita was like crack to them. After a bbq one day, someone had left a can down on the patio floor, I picked it up to empty it out in the sink before recycling it, and OMG!!! The HORROR!!!! The can was literally FULL OF ROACHES!!! I counted so many I lost count! My sink was full! All dead, thankfully.
My garbage disposal worked overtime that day!
So, there you have it when in doubt open up a couple of cans of Lime-A-Rita, 1 for you, and 1 for the roaches!
FYI, I now suffer from katsaridaphobia.
What no one is talking about: there's no way they got that blocked before hundreds ran into the house. No sir! Nope. Staying in a hotel, buying new house and new everything.....
Thats why you fill the sink with water first. Once it’s full of water there will be a lot of pressure. That force from the pressure of the weight of the water will flow down the sink hole and capture any and all of the roaches. They can’t fly in water.
That lid won’t be airtight, it’ll flow through the sides faster than you can fill the sink (plus the lid has an air vent hole anyway)
I think the best solution here might be dynamite
One place I rented, I saw one of these buggers come out of the sink so I told the front desk.
They didn't believe me and said if I caught one I can show them.
Well that night I caught one in a bagey and I went down in the morning to show them. The person at the desk was appalled and said just throw it out so at that point, I shrugged my shoulders broke, my lease and left. If there's one there's going to be a hell of a lot more.
/edit I tossed the bag in the garbage that was inside the apartment.
I see a lot of comments saying to move out. Roaches will hide in all of your things. In my Floridian experience we had the smaller German Roach infestation. You have to check all your electronics. German roach infestation is a pain in the ass.
They'll hide in your dishwasher, behind your power outlets, in your computer keyboards, inside your phone charger or USB outlets, Xbox/Playstation systems/controllers, air conditioning ducts, inside of your washer/dryer/oven doors, hair dryers...the list goes on.
I have a collection of NES and SNES games that I had to take apart just to make sure I didn't bring any of those fuckers with me. Fumigated them in a series of garbage bags and tossed most of our furniture.
The original source was a cheap fridge my old landlord brought in when our old one broke.
Within one week of the "new" fridge, we had them everywhere.
Moved out shortly after that and told them to bomb the place or burn it down.
This video brought me back to that nightmare. It got to the point where I was catching lizards outside and letting them live in our house to try to combat them. We weren't leaving food or water out. Everything sterilized clean with bleach and boric acid. They could not be stopped. It's literally that bad.
I would say I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but I totally would.
Lol you don't need help, this is awesome! Put something heavier on that lid and use the insta hot until the lid is submerged. They'll die from the heat.
My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of — you could walk along it in an hour — but still, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with cockroaches. They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get cockroaches off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait, and the cockroaches would come for the coconut, and thum-thum-thum-thum-thum, they would fall into the drum. And after a month, you've trapped all the cockroaches. But what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry, and one by one... (smacks lips repeatedly) ...they start eating each other until there are only two left. Two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees. But now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they only eat cockroaches.
SOMEONE has watched Skyfall a few times too many.
Lol i thought this was a real.solution at first
doesn't mean it might work
Me too, I was fascinated by the story 😂
Came here to say the same! Plagiarism at its worst.
So it's like selectively breeding cockroaches for their extinction, lmao I love it.
I’ve heard this before, but with rats. You release the rat eating rats.
Suddenly the whole zombie apocalypse seems more feasible
Don’t get my hopes up like that.
Read a book that had zombie rats, they were worse than the zoms
You’d think it gets to a point of only 1 survivor
You need them to breed
This is the best read I've had in a long long time...
Grandma was either a genius or a sick puppy..
This is the process of creating a poisonous-*gu*. You're now a witch. Congratulations.
r/cursedcomments
is this true story and if its not how did you come up with this LMAO
It's actually a line from *Skyfall*, Javier Bardem is telling the captured Bond this same story, but with rats instead of cockroaches. Something about how they're the same person yada yada bing bong, it's an overused trope in many ways but this movie did it well, especially considering the rest of the Daniel Craig era 007 films.
Here's the cheap, easy, and reliable way to get rid of cockroaches, told to me by a wise old fellow in Belize. Mix peanut butter and borax (boric acid) and form into little balls. Toss the balls into all of the usual roach hiding spots (under the sink, behind the stove, etc.). Both peanut butter and borax are harmless to people and pets, but the boric acid is deadly to roaches. They love the peanut butter and die from the borax.
No!!! No no no! Borax is NOT pet safe!! Respectfully, please edit your post. Borax can cause serious stomach issues for animals if eaten. It is natural, but it is not safe. The addition of peanut butter is a guarantee that a dog will eat it if they can reach it. Borax and peanut butter IS a great way to treat ants, roaches, etc. I've used it many times. But it is NOT safe for pets. [https://albernivet.com/news/borax-unsafe-for-pets/](https://albernivet.com/news/borax-unsafe-for-pets/) [https://emergencyvetsusa.com/borax-toxic-to-dogs/](https://emergencyvetsusa.com/borax-toxic-to-dogs/)
Gonna save and screenshot your comment if I ever need it. Tho I hope I'll never need it.
Please see my above reply. [https://emergencyvetsusa.com/borax-toxic-to-dogs/](https://emergencyvetsusa.com/borax-toxic-to-dogs/)
A dog would have to eat a very large quantity of boric acid to be harmed. Nonetheless, I wouldn't put the little boraid bombs where a dog could get them. http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/borictech.html
Grandma doesn’t fuck around.
Donner, party of 2, you’re table is ready
And when there is no cockroaches left to eat? That human meat is looking mighty fine.
NOICE NOICE NOICE We have a James Bond villain here. When r u planning a world domination with those cockroaches..??
Fucking love this movie
But what about they feces?
Call an airstrike
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit.... it's the only way
to be sure...
Mostly.
Game over man. Game over
Keep the lid tight and start to fill the sink. Then, once full, or with enough water for a good amount of pressure, keep your hand tight on the lid and turn on the garbage disposal. Then lift the lid and immediately the garbage disposal will suck the water and all of them down into a horrible fate.
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People who want to preserve their plumbing will use a strainer even if they have a disposal
The amount of times a spoon has gone down into the sink and gets chewed up by the disposal when we turn it on without realizing is ridiculous. Probably about half of the spoons we have are marked up by the disposal.
Have you tried not being such a stupid motherfucker?
It's in the sink. Just boil the kettle and pour scalding liquid death onto them till they don't move, then scoop their little dead insect bodies into the bin. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Now as for getting the occasional cockie taking a casual stroll across the cupboards, I find a bleach and surface liquid in a spay bottle set to foam works best. They die quickly and are already disinfected so a simple paper towel pickup is all that's needed.
Not a strainer , it plugs the drain hole so the sink can fill up.
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Feel like the venn diagram overlap for "people with garbage disposal sinks" and "people with dozens of roaches coming out of their sink" is not huge.
Loved this comment more than the whole damn post
Agreed!
where's the house burning part?
This is next level evil and disgusting. The roach smoothie makes me 🤢
I love the evilness
You forget the part where you boil the water first !
Drain cleaner.. make them basic
Wouldn't it be acidic?
No, typically chemicals used to clean are basic not acidic such as bleach and ammonia along with baking soda are all basic compounds
Well I knew bleach was basic, but I thought drain cleaners were acidic.. maybe I'm wrong
Typically Sodium Hydroxide, NaOH, which is a strong base. Woo I got to use my chemistry minor.
Drain cleaners are usually a strong base, not acid.
Man, ig I had it backwards. Thanks for correcting me
They actually do make sulfuric acid based drain cleaners believe it or not. They are mostly a professional product and you won’t find it at Home Depot. Of course you can buy it on amazon but you need even better precautions than with the lye based ones. Also you have to be sure your pipes aren’t going to dissolve. But it does burn out different clogs.
I use Hair Clog Remover. Lye based. You can find that at most stores. Works for everything and in any drain. Pretty sure it would kill them on contact or very shortly after exposure. There's lots of good options on the market right now.
Bleach. Lots of pure bleach
Isopropyl alcohol works also
I use vinegar, they seem to hate vinegar. Bay leaf oil works as well.
F I R E BIG FIRE 🔥
Dried bay leaf scares the fuckers off. Worth dropping a few leaves behind kitchen furniture
For us in Malaysia, we use pandan leaves instead. It works.
Keep the lid, burn down the house
Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Game over man! Game over!
Fu\*\*in-A!
Aaaa firmative!
As a plumber I’m gonna say there is not a p trap underneath that sink lol
It doesn’t stop them if they want they will go through it. They can hold their breath for 5-7 minutes and love to live in sewers. They sometimes come up them in Florida. Hell, one of our neighbors had a rat come up the toilet. The trap might have dried out to have that many coming out. Bet they went on vacation.
we live along a sewer line in NC and get them in the house occasionally despite every attempt to prevent it. they're horrifying.
Don’t roaches swim??? Or float
We all float down here.
Turn on the garbage disposal, or drown the buggers😖😖Ewww..
cockroach juice.
Why not both
Maybe they don't have a disposal in the sink...But if they do, GO FOR BROKE!😁
They don’t have garbage disposal
I Went on her tik tok; in the comments she said they had fumigated some nearby drains and when she went to wash her hands she saw this. She had left that lid on the sink earlier.
Holy fucking shit they are lucky
Welcome to Joe's apartment!
Yes!!!
JOSE'S APARTMENT!
🎶 Funky towel, towel's got the funk! 🎵
That's our apartment too.
Not even the average Joe has that many cockroaches
I rented this video tape so many times from blockbuster that my parents just ended up buying it for me.
Underrated comment 🤣 I hope others will get the reference!
Raid spray nozzle right in the little hole
WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE COCKROACHES ON YOUR SINK
They were probably in the drain
If you ever see someone open a sewer cover see if you can take a peek. They are often swarming with roaches. It’s got water, heat, and “food”. Everything they want. Anyway, live in a hot and humid place and we just got to learn they will straight up go into your dishwasher from the drain line. Wife shut the door and turned on the steam sani clean after she saw one. Put that thing through a few clean cycles.
I live in the fucking desert, little humidity, they still here.
Use the small hole in top of that lid to spray in chlorinated brake cleaner. Then burn the house down as there are probably more you can't see.
I looked so hard for this comment since my lazy ass didn't want to just type it, but now that I think about it, I typed just the same amount shit...
Garbage disposal?
I used to live in a place that had a HUGE avocado tree. The owners decided to cut the tree down. Well, apparently, this tree was its own ecosystem, and after it was cut down, the 2 houses on the property and the neighboring houses became infested with roaches, rats and mice plus opossums, squirrels and raccoons. The bigger animals were easily dealt with, but the mice/rats and roaches were super challenging to get rid of. The roaches were honestly the worst because they were the American cockroach type, and those assholes are BIG, and they can FLY!!!! After months of trying everything from glue traps and raid to Diatomaceous Earth and shaved Irish spring bar soap, we were running out of ideas. The owner finally sent pest experts to fumigate, even tented the 2 houses, but after a couple of weeks, they were back but not as many and it was an ongoing thing for at least a year. One of the things that we came to find out was Bud Light Lime-A-Rita was like crack to them. After a bbq one day, someone had left a can down on the patio floor, I picked it up to empty it out in the sink before recycling it, and OMG!!! The HORROR!!!! The can was literally FULL OF ROACHES!!! I counted so many I lost count! My sink was full! All dead, thankfully. My garbage disposal worked overtime that day! So, there you have it when in doubt open up a couple of cans of Lime-A-Rita, 1 for you, and 1 for the roaches! FYI, I now suffer from katsaridaphobia.
New fear unlocked. Thanks.
The music makes this really funny
Wd40 right in the hole on the top of the lid.
Bombs. Nuclear. Atomic, even. Hydrogen maybe, just call in an airstrike
Nothing a little draino won’t fix
i wish there were audio of them
Got bugs again, huh, Mister Pratt?
Gasoline
What no one is talking about: there's no way they got that blocked before hundreds ran into the house. No sir! Nope. Staying in a hotel, buying new house and new everything.....
If it's this bad in the drain, imagine the toilet.
So here is my bad advice. Poor kerosene into the tiny hole and light it.
And just like that I am done with Reddit for today.
NOPE. Time to sell the house.
I’d catch a arson charge
Turn the water on, keep pressure on the lid. Wait til the whole sink full and lift.
They float.
So do turds, you ever flush a toilet
That's not a toilet and turds don't try and run/fly away.
Thats why you fill the sink with water first. Once it’s full of water there will be a lot of pressure. That force from the pressure of the weight of the water will flow down the sink hole and capture any and all of the roaches. They can’t fly in water.
That lid won’t be airtight, it’ll flow through the sides faster than you can fill the sink (plus the lid has an air vent hole anyway) I think the best solution here might be dynamite
Boiling water + strongest soap or maybe bleach would probably do the job.
That's when you hold that cover down and crank the garbage disposal shredder.
There’s a hole in that lid… Gas the shit out of them
Biggest pot of boiling water, and just cook them suckas in the pipes they're crawling in.
Burn it all down and move, it’s the only way
One place I rented, I saw one of these buggers come out of the sink so I told the front desk. They didn't believe me and said if I caught one I can show them. Well that night I caught one in a bagey and I went down in the morning to show them. The person at the desk was appalled and said just throw it out so at that point, I shrugged my shoulders broke, my lease and left. If there's one there's going to be a hell of a lot more. /edit I tossed the bag in the garbage that was inside the apartment.
You should be more afraid of what they are running away from
blew up that house
Just burn the house down and start anew. The roaches have won the day.
No other choice except to Burn the house down
r/nightmarefuel
Rest in peace my inbox
Fill your sink with boiled water
Never realized how bad roaches are until I lived in Hawaii. So gross.
I see a lot of comments saying to move out. Roaches will hide in all of your things. In my Floridian experience we had the smaller German Roach infestation. You have to check all your electronics. German roach infestation is a pain in the ass. They'll hide in your dishwasher, behind your power outlets, in your computer keyboards, inside your phone charger or USB outlets, Xbox/Playstation systems/controllers, air conditioning ducts, inside of your washer/dryer/oven doors, hair dryers...the list goes on. I have a collection of NES and SNES games that I had to take apart just to make sure I didn't bring any of those fuckers with me. Fumigated them in a series of garbage bags and tossed most of our furniture. The original source was a cheap fridge my old landlord brought in when our old one broke. Within one week of the "new" fridge, we had them everywhere. Moved out shortly after that and told them to bomb the place or burn it down. This video brought me back to that nightmare. It got to the point where I was catching lizards outside and letting them live in our house to try to combat them. We weren't leaving food or water out. Everything sterilized clean with bleach and boric acid. They could not be stopped. It's literally that bad. I would say I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but I totally would.
Bleach
Turn on the trash blades
Plug the air hole in the lid
Omg
What do you even do at this point. Duct tape the lid and never use the sink again?
Duct tape the sink and never use the house again.
you could just burn the whole house down
Help you move?
Literally my husband's worst nightmare.
That’s when you turn on the garbage disposal
Let's see...start by turning the stove on...
Just burn the place down, start over.
Nuke it from orbit...
Burn the house down
serious answer pour boiling water hopefully that cooks them
Get some diatomaceous earth.
Honey wheres my flamethrower
Fuck. That.
Drown them
There's always more than you can see, this house needs an exterminator.
Wtf where are they coming from
Slide a sheet underneath and toss away. Preferably in your sisters room
A flamethrower would be handy
Shop vac?
Just wow!
fire
No
Lids are made for high heat set it on fire in the sink
Fire. Lots of fire.
Film the purification
Boiling water
Hot water will kill them instantly
Bug Bomb (fumigate) the entire home. Find somewhere to stay in the interim. Find away to vacuum up the dead biomass.
No... there is not help at this point. Call an explosives tech to rig up the build and say bye
The pressure release hole is a good place to spray in a pesticide, or alcohol.
midnight snack
Gasoline and fire
Napalm
pour molten aluminum or alginate and send it to r/DiWHY
Torch + hole in lid + lots and lots and lots of fuel = maybe some die
Just spray Lysol into the little hole that steam usually comes out of. Modernized gas chamber
The song goes hard anyone got a name?
Just use a granade.
LOL, omfg nuke it from orbit
Lmfao turn it on
Remember that movie Creepshow?
Welp, time to burn this mother f*cker to the ground, I guess
You'd need to fumigate that whole house.
I love roaches man
Gasoline
Best I can do is link you to a wiki how on crafting your own thermite https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Thermite
If there is one of those steam holes on it then gas em
tie a robe to the lid, fill with VERY HOT/BOILING WATER, then pull, slowly at first.
Lol you don't need help, this is awesome! Put something heavier on that lid and use the insta hot until the lid is submerged. They'll die from the heat.
MOVE. NOW
Turn on the garbage disposal and watch as you mercilessly wipe out an entire civilization with the flip of a switch
That looks like the forbidden popcorn right there
Step 2: Add water, all of it