A person, easily. Worst case the authorities are involved and they’re gone. Best case… well, let’s not go there.
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I didn’t talk about the best case…
I get that the question is an either/or, but nobody’s acknowledging the likelihood of a 1000 cockroaches being in the attic because of a person.
Just not a living one.
So, maybe this one of those paradox thingys?
No, it’s before and after.
Person. It’s easier to seal up the hole they are getting in through.
And people can be reasoned with. It’s likely just someone seeking shelter. I’ve been there in the past when I was homeless.
you were living in someone’s attic?
I was homeless. I did however also spend a few nights in an apartment complex’ attic since the door wasn’t properly locked
Person, definitely. I can call the cops on a person, and keep my distance until they respond. 1000 roaches means… fuck I don’t even KNOW what it takes to tackle a roach infestation that big, but it’s probably thousands of dollars and dozens of hours of labor.
What’s crazy is 1000 roaches isn’t actually a crazy big infestation
If you can see 1000 roaches… You basically have roaches for walls…
Seeing that many is a sign of a massive infestation that will probably get your home condemned.
I mean it’s the specifics of the scenario I agree.
If we assume that finding cockroaches implies they literally see 1000 roaches.
For everyone one roach you see there’s easily 100 more crawling around. Disgusting little bastards.
Just one roach is enough for me to fumigate, tbh. Grew up on a 3rd world island and never want to deal with one again…
You know what can deal with both situations effectively? Flamethrower.
But you only go to prison in one of the cases.
1000 roaches
Legally speaking, it’s a lot easier to kill roaches than a person
I’ll take the person. I lived with roaches in the past. Were impossible to get rid of and would keep destroying stuff including electronics. Not to mention the SOUND at night. Those 1000 roaches will also rapidly multiply to be way more.
I’m glad to be out of that place. In the person case I am sure I could either reason with them (If they’re living in my attic out if necessity) or have the authorities involved (If they’re a danger to me).
An easier (but more time consuming way) to get rid of roaches is with bait, not spray. Use spray only in areas you absolutely don’t want them to touch, because they know it’s bad and just avoid it. Use little amounts of bait everywhere else. Then you wait, and wait, and slowly they die and don’t come back.
Tried that. The issue is when the neighborhood is infested. They just come back again and again. Im glad to be out of that hell.
Yeah nothing you can do if your neighbors don’t do it too. You’d have to keep replacing the bait every few months as it dries out.
From what I last heard, the entire area was deemed condemned and needs to be torn down due to not following safety and health standards anymore. So moving out was definitely a good move.
I’d just mix a bunch of ammonia and bleach and leave it in the attic.
Just tent the place.
Even though I’m in an apartment and there’s no attic, a human. Dead or alive, it’d be about 3,000,000 times quicker to get rid of a single person than pests.
It’s easier to get rid of a single person, but murdering a human is a crime in most countries.
What are they gonna do? Call the attic police?
You think that, but squatters have a lot of rights which can make it very hard and expensive or even impossible to get rid of them…
I don’t think squatting laws apply if you’re actively living there.
Yeah, my understanding of squatter’s rights (without checking, I can’t be bothered today) is that they have to be openly living in an unoccupied dwelling and the owner has to do nothing to check on the place or have the squatter removed. It’s supposed to be for abandoned properties.
My ex-partner and I lived in their grandfather’s house for a little while after he passed away. There were places we were not allowed like one storage room and the attic. We would often hear a radio come on in the attic and go off at various times and the occasional loud thump, and most weird was almost like sobbing, but we assumed it must be the old radio plugged in up there. Also every now and then his dad would “need to get into the attic” for no reason. The only access was on the outside of the roof through a trap door that was padlocked. My ex’s birth certificate had an discrepancy on it that he had 3 siblings even though he only had 2. His mom said they just made a mistake, but he was 90% sure that his hidden sibling was living in that attic. I used to think it was a running joke, but looking back I think he was at least a little serious and I don’t put it past his parents. They were completely insane and I’m glad he hasn’t had contact with them in years (we’re still friends). So roaches, def, roaches. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
If you are not simple inventing a story for whatever reason you have, you should warn the cops…
Understandable because this is the Internet, but I do not drink enough to be a successful fiction author. I’ve just had a very interesting life. I would certainly do that if the house was still standing. They tore it down about ten years ago. This was 19 years ago and like I said I thought it was just an old clock radio with the alarm that would wake you up to radio the old man may have plugged in up there. He was pretty senile before he went. He kept his mail in the freezer. He had a tendency to purchase repeat items he didn’t need like three of the same retro stereo or 20 cans of coffee each week. My ex and I had spent a couple weeks homeless so I wasn’t super tuned in and I thought he was messing with me. We never really had enough evidence to prove anybody actually lived up there. I mean the place was infested with rats and mice so that could have accounted for the noises and I figured they were just slowly taking the valuables out of the place. We didn’t stick around for more than a couple of weeks before his crazy mom ran us off. I just wrote it off as the overactive imagination of two people who were struggling and under a lot of pressure.
wtf.
Yeah they were kinda like some “Nothing but Trouble” kind of people if you know the movie. I’m glad he got away from them.
This is why the comments are always better than the posts
A person, no hesitation
Probably just an easier to deal with situation
You’re under the guise that somebody’s going to actually get picked up for trespassing in your house and is going to end up seeing some possible jail time so that you won’t have to worry about them but if they’re actually having a mental health issue the local police departments will usually just cut them loose pretty quickly so they’ll be back out on the street and probably back in your attic befor the end of the day…
No, I’m under the guise people have kneecaps, and I own a framing hammer.
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Not if I blockade their entrance
Yup. Rather deal with one than a thousand.
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Only 1000 roaches? That’s a lot lower than what I would actually expect to find.
1000, that you can see.
“finding” 1 person is probably 1 person total
“Finding” 1000 roaches? Buckle up
I’m from Buenos Aires and i say kill them all.
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Starship Troopers reference
I’d definitely have roaches over termites.
My first choice was find a person living there…but what kind of person would I find? People come in many varieties, whereas roaches are predictable. The kind of person that would break in to live in your attic might not be the best kind…eh I’ll still take my chances.
The kind of person to break into your attic is honestly likely just someone looking for shelter. Statistically there’s more drifters and squatters than dangerous people
I live in an attic myself, so … define “find”?
Poison works on both but only one of them runs a chance of coming back without you knowing.
Can’t kill a human without repercussions, but everyone understands straight up murdering roaches.
