For once I am glad I live in a location that I would be too hot for anything to live in my attic.

If you have both, you could set them against each other and the problem might solve itself

The person. USA baby I’ll happily practice my rights 😁

It’s a lot easier to kill a single human than 1000 roaches.

I hate bugs, like HATE. But I watched that video of the girl living in the storage space in the ceiling. And she’d come down at night to eat food and piss in the sink… I’ll take the bugs

The person. It doesn’t even say of it’s alive or dead, if it’s someone you know or not, if it’s someone who also lives in the house or not.

A thousand cockroaches is a lot

on god

Stopped reading right there.

People that live in attics write best selling books. I bet I could negotiate at least 60% of that profit if it was my fucking attic. Easy Choice.

Fun one. I grew up in trailers and we had roaches. Id wake up with them crawling all over. Turn on a light and up the walls they go. Now I’m a behavior therapist and I’d take the person who obviously means me no harm over skittering ass bugs. There’s nothing that says they have to stay either or that they can’t be helped :)

Both problems can in theory be solved with a flamethrower

Am I the only one here who can’t work out what the second person is saying in that reply? Having a “has anyone really been far even as decided…” moment.

As a homeowner? Person. While it might be terrifying to discover a hobo living in the attic, at least they won’t infest every electronic item I own. And they can’t fit into the walls.

I made the mistake of staying with a boyfriend who didn’t disclose his roach infestation until I was already there. My god. They were everywhere. They didn’t even run when you turned the light, just give me a wave with one leg like, hey, how you doing?

I could take sterilized roaches. Their power in that their population grows like hell. But 1000 you can kill off and that’s settled? Okay, deal. Guess, the first hunt would take a half of them for good.

A person? You obviously can’t kill them in most jurisdictions unless you are a LEO. But I’d look forward to reach out and cooperate with them in some way. Idk them and maybe they have cool things to talk about or learn from them. Imagine them blasting an ukulele and being open to teach you. Or just being a good friend material.

I’d probably take both and do bonding with a cellar person over killing bugs.

From a practical standpoint, the person is theoretically easier to get rid of than the roaches because there’s almost certainly only one of them and even if there’s two, of opposite sex, it takes considerably more time and effort for them to produce any more of them and even then more than a decade before those offspring can themselves breed. That said a person is as big as at least 1000 cockroaches and has more natural defences.

It’s a bit of a conundrum because there’s probably more readily available resources for getting rid of roaches than a person, but they’re probably less effective than most anti person resources that you can get if you can get them. You could try the anti roach tactics on the person but you’d have to get like a lot of roach spray and a lot of protective equipment because the cornered person is pretty dangerous. You couldn’t even really call in a professional either because I reckon they’d likely run away when they discovered they weren’t dealing with roaches.

Depending on your area the local police would probably be the best stand in for pest control at this scale and probably pretty effective too so ultimately the person is probably the better option of the 2 but that said it’d be an awful lot more disturbing than the 1000 roaches. There is at least the option of becoming friends with the person though which is not really an option with the roaches.

Killing a thousand roaches would be pretty difficult… I’m just sayin’…