I feel like thats not even that many roaches for a real infestation
Also doesnt mention what kind
And there are proffesionals you can call probably once to deal with that problem.
If you find a human living in your attic unbeknownst to you well
Thats a lifetime of therapy or more to deal with after dealing with the immediate problem
Roaches every time
I was going to say exactly this. 1,000 roaches is not that many roaches, can be easily dealt with, and pose no serious immediate threat.
One human could kill you and your entire family and then burn your house down.
Why do we assume the human wants to harm you? If they’re in your attic, that means they would have already killed you if they wanted.
Chances are if you maintain peace, they will.
I don’t want random dildos hanging out in my house without my knowledge, friendly or not. At least with the roaches, I don’t have to have a conversation.
Absolutely with you here. Roaches is normal at worst
What if it’s a nice person though?
They would have asked if they could live in my attic
May I live in your attic? I’m a great cook.
No thanks its currently occupied by spiders and i dont need more roommates
I have a spider too! Her name is Bianca-Fabian.
fr, that person might rape and/or murder me but the roaches won’t lol
to be fairy there are also professionals who will be all too willing to take any unregistered humans off your hands…
A LIFETIME of therapy?
I’d rather the person. A roommate that’s so good, I didn’t even notice them there until I physically checked the attic? Perfect.
That was my thought, if they’ve gone unnoticed until then that means they are quiet, that alone puts them in the top 5% of roommates.
Are they tidy? Do they clean up and keep the noise at a dull roar? They can stay.
Does anyone know I’ve found this person?
I want to hear your answer for both options.
1000 roaches?
I’d roll them into a blunt.
No, I mean when they know you found someone and when they don’t.
If it’s not a secret, then the police can figure it out.
If it is a secret, the options are endless. I certainly wouldn’t need to pay for a house cleaner ever again.
…are you considering enslaving the person in your attic?
Indentured servant.
Gotta collect that back rent.
What?
Free person.
Think of the possibilities.
“Is anyone aware that I have located the individual in my attic?”
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.
I’m sure tenting the whole house for a few days will get rid of both easily
I’m leaning roaches just because I won’t have as much difficulty explaining why I killed them.
You can legally kill roaches.
You can legally kill people too. Cops do it all the time.
See, the issue with your statement is the “you” part. As a dark skinned person with leftist political stances, I don’t believe I can get away with what cops do.
Cops are just one of many examples. Here are some other ways of legally killing people:
- joining the army
- becoming a doctor and systemically neglect women and poc
- fatally injuring someone in self defense
- getting someone pregant in places with abortion bans
Notice that I said killing, not ‘murdering’. So long as it’s either not deliberate or acceptable by law, you can legally get people killed.
Instructions unclear. Apparently being overrun by a roach army is not a good enough reason to burn your own house down.
You can call the police for a person.
You can’t fir 1000 roches.
Hell i’d take a person over 10 roaches
You need 1 bullet to deal with a person, and 1000 to deal with 1000 cockroaches.
Math is pretty easy.
I think using 1000 bullets in your home to kill roaches would be…ya know what, nah, go for it
And then a shitload of contractors to repair the 1000 bullet holes in your house due to the massive overkill of shooting roaches.
Nice accuracy tho.
You can just call an exterminator for the roaches though. I would definitely rather invite an exterminator into my house that the cops.
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?
A roach waving at me would make me drop dead on the spot.
Treating the question seriously, I think it is easy to think the one person is the right choice, because it just seems like less of a mess to deal with. However, I also think the end result is that you will never feel safe in your home again. You will always second guess if every squeak you hear is yet another person who somehow have made it into your house. This is the path towards slowly descending into madness.
Even if you got rid of the 1000 roaches. You’ll always think there are a ton up there. There could be 10,000 in a couple of months after you get “rid” of the 1000.
You can physically make it impossible for a person to get in your attic. You can’t do that with roaches.
I’m just amazed you think person is the obvious choice, because my immediate thought is that roaches are way less likely to murder me and thus the obvious choice.
And also, if you’ve seen one roach in your attic, you probably already have a thousand of them anyway.
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
Thanks for making me discover that. Could’ve lived my whole life without knowing about it.
I guess the toilet would make to much noise.
It never said where she’d #2 tho… That’s what scares me most. If she’s peeing in the sink…
Well now I’m debating my answer.
Both problems can in theory be solved with a flamethrower
In practice choosing 1000 roaches would make for a legal solution (i don’t know how to survive jail)
One human sized roach, or 1000 roach sized humans?
A human sized roach is big enough to just shoot. A roach-sized human could be hiding anywhere with like a poisoned needle or whatever.
Yeah, but a human sized roach has an armoured carapace which is now a few centimetres thick. Do you have a cannon with armour piercing ammunition at home? I’ll take my chances in forming an alliance with the small people.
A roach that big wouldn’t be able to move much, it’s legs would probably splinter under the weight of that armored carapace. Also it probably wouldn’t be able to “breathe” at that size, it’s respiratory system wouldn’t function well enough to keep it alive for very long. It’s a problem that would solve itself pretty quickly.
Well, aren’t you fun.
I live in North America, so…
Definitely the 1 human sized roach this one’s obvious. It’s hard enough getting rid of 1000 roach sized roaches and now you want to give them human ingenuity?
Killing a thousand roaches would be pretty difficult… I’m just sayin’…
Yeah but so is hiding the dead body of a person
Are we making people jerky I love people jerky. --The jungle ape on Johnny bravo
and they multiply
but maybe that can be a good thing… just start feeding them until you gain their loyalty and have them protect your house from anyone trying to live in your attic
I think there’s some sci-fi there somewhere
Big Bomb
Leave for the day.
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.
It’ll be just like The Sims
For once I am glad I live in a location that I would be too hot for anything to live in my attic.
That’s what you think. Roaches can survive extreme heat. Humans, not so much.
I didn’t need to hear this before bed time.
Roaches don’t have squatters rights.
But does anyone else know you have a rando living in your attic?
