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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 12:30 PM
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Why not use the med fly solution we have here in California?

Just pack a few sterile roaches in your bag and voila you've solved the problem nature's way.
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 12:43 PM
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There's just a terrible fascination in reading these stories. Wish I could stop! ;-)

Eeewww -- the ear story. Wasn't there an episode of Star Trek, or one of the movies, with a storyline like that?

The Newport story was a ghastly hoot -- did the dreaded critter survive the fire and water? I hear they will long outlive humans on the planet...
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 12:49 PM
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here's what you do...take your suitcase out in the backyard, open it JUST enough for the little suckers to be able to get out one at a time...then
set the other end on fire...when they run out the hole for cover, you stab um with an ice pike!!!...
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 01:14 PM
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LOL Ranger: at last... the voice of reason!!
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 01:15 PM
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Or...instead of stabbing them with an ice pick, why don't you just shoot them with a gun?

As they run out of the suitcase, shoot them!
 
Old Oct 25th, 2005, 01:37 PM
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how about just shoot the suitcase with a shotgun, that will kill any cockroachs inside.
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 02:09 PM
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I like this solution the best - let's just shoot the darn suitcase!

Why not start a new thread: "Please Help! What's the best way to shoot a suitcase?"
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 03:53 PM
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Well, I'd tell her not worry about one of Hawaiian roaches crawling into her ear. Here they grow much too large to fit an ear canal.

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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 04:00 PM
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only on Fodor's.. What's the best way to shoot a suitcase?

in the back?

when it's not looking?

with a Canon ZX5000 loaded with 800 film?
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 07:07 PM
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OMG, this is the best laugh I've had in a while, LOL.

I did see roaches in my Hawaii hotel room many years ago. The Pioneer Inn in Lahaina. We checked out immediately.
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 07:37 PM
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LOL, I am laughing so hard at this..my husband wanted to know what was so funny.

I told him " shooting roaches in your luggage"...


I think he is worried about me
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 08:42 PM
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"How do you get roaches out of your luggage?"

Just smoke 'em
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 10:34 PM
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starrsville, "if you got 'em."

I never had a roach problem, but I did get bit on the neck by a centipede while I was asleep in bed. I sure would have shot that guy if I'd had a gun!

(This was on Kawaii, so the K Klub can add that to their list.)
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 10:57 PM
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LOL, Now I have this picture in my mind of someone lying in a bed in Hawaii, windows open, bugs crawling on the bed while he smokes a roach LOL with legs..ick ick ick!!

K Klub? as in Kranky?
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 11:07 PM
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Marilyn... will be sure to add!
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Old Oct 25th, 2005, 11:08 PM
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Yes Scarlett... kquite kranky.
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Old Oct 26th, 2005, 04:48 AM
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You all are nuts. NUTS, I SAY!!!!



I wonder if Goatman will ever post another question to this board. I certainly hope so, this one is in the running for my favorite thread from 2005.
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Old Oct 26th, 2005, 05:42 AM
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My first encounter with my new Chapel Hill house after closing was when I walked into the new, completely empty living room and spied a large palmetto-bug/megaroach in the middle of the floor. I started to walk toward it and it reared up and CHARGED toward me, swiftly and fearlessly. In shock and awe, I ran back out of the house sounding exactly like Ferris Bueller's sister when she ran into Mr. Mooney! When we came back in, it was nowhere to be found but I did sleep with one eye open until I'd laced the house with baitcups and Borax behind all the appliances!

I think the TV show someone's remembering is the classic "X-Files" about roaches that included one scene where they made a roach seem to crawl across the TV screen! One of "X-files" creepiest!
 
Old Oct 26th, 2005, 05:53 AM
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"In shock and awe"...LOL Cassandra!
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Old Oct 26th, 2005, 06:33 AM
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You should have shot him Cassandra.
 


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