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Don't see much of them where I live. But I've had some close encounters with them in other parts of the country.

Creepy, filthy and nasty. The phrase harder to kill than a cockroach has a real meaning.

Nasty little critters that a difficult to kill unless you have the club handy according to rogercobb. I wonder if there marketing department can use this little know fact. New methods and chemicals have used to get rid of these persistent little pest. One proven method is powder and jells which are taken back to the nest and as the little buggers ingest it the die.

I hate roaches with every fiber of my being. I hate their little legs, I hate their antennae, I hate their ultrasmooth nasty brown backs, and I hate how they're lightning quick and crawl all over your food at night. At my old house, I came home from school one day to find two gigantic roaches in the sink. Normally, I would scream in fear, but instead I pulled a kitchen knife out of the drawer and stabbed them both to death (I got rid of the knife, since you asked). Then one day, I moved to an upstairs apartment. Hallelujah, I haven't seen a single roach in eight months of moving here! I guess they don't wanna bother climbing stairs. EDIT: Okay, I moved again, and this new apartment is just CRAWLING with them. The little baby ones keep crawling on the kitchen counter, even during the day time (Don't roach parents care about the trouble their kids are getting into?). The only good thing is, the little monsters are easy to kill. Their parents are a different story. Today, I saw a smallish adult one scurrying along the counter, and since I always resolve to kill every roach I see (It saves me from mulling about whether the one I didn't kill ends up popping up at an inopportune time in my box of Froot Loops), I took the nearest object (a wrought-iron angel statue...talk about divine intervention) and started slamming it down in hopes of killing it. It took about 20 or so tries (The adult ones are FAST), but I finally ended up decapitating it. The worst part was I had to watch the poor beast's headless body's legs flail around helplessly AND its severed heads' antennae flagellate around as well until death finally took it. And this was during lunch, too. Oh, yeah, hope none of y'all were reading this before dinner. And just a few minutes ago, I noticed several roaches of varying ages congregating around an occupied electrical socket on the kitchen wall. So of course I whipped out a knife, being cautious to wrap my hand in a cloth first, so I don't end up jamming the metal in the socket and getting myself electrocuted (That'd be a "Darwin Award" moment, for sure). I managed to kill most of the smaller ones, but the big ones always seem to escape into some dark, unreachable crevasse. And so my battle with the roaches continues. Until another day!

Disgusting, gross, horrendous creatures that I'm glad I don't interact with. I would post more but just thinking about them and their disgusting bodies makes me sick...

I absolutely hate these ugly nasty little critters. They are really gross and disgusting. They carry lots of germs and disease, they get in your food, crawl all over your dishes, get in your silverware drawer, lay eggs EVERYWHERE, breed out of control, and they run so fast you can't squash them. EEEW!!! Fortunately I don't have a roach problem but have brought them in in the past and they started to breed even before I started to spot them. I finally got rid of them. I cleaned like crazy, especially behind the stove and refrigerator, stocked up on Raid and started spraying like a mad woman, and bought those roach motels. Even with this and a smaller roach infestation I thought I would never get rid of them!!

They're ugly, amazingly adaptable, and hard to catch so that you can kill them. They can withstand a lot of pressure, but stepping on them will do the trick (if you don't mind the crunching sound). Actually, they're supposed to be very clean critters themselves, but it's not a trait that I think gets them any sympathy points.

(1=get it the hell away from me!) Luckily, they have been extremely rare in my apartment, but I can't stand the sight of them! Especially those huge cockroaches that I saw in a zoo once (Hissing Cockroach), I don't care how thick the glass was, I was still freaked out! I know it's silly to be this worked up about a damn bug, but I can't help it.

The most vile and evil little creatures known to man. They run for cover the second you spot them and are very hard to get rid of.

Evil, dirty, and utterly indestructible creatures. Fortunately they are rare where I live, but I endured years of them in the midwest and south.