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
there’s an extremely early episode of Family Guy where they use guns to shoot at fleas. Because obviously that would be ridiculous.
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.
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.
If you see 1 roach, there’s probably 1,000 more hiding. If you see 1,000 roaches…
Then there’s only one hiding?
yeah but he’s the size of Larry Bird and he sucks at hiding
I don’t know why, but this made me laugh so hard it hurt my ribs and stomach. I haven’t laughed that hard in a while - thank you!
Roaches can cause respiratory problems, but I’d take that over potential murder and rape.
Also, I would be very disappointed in my dogs if they didn’t notice a person living in the attic. You can find a ball by scent–you’d better notice a person creeping around!
A person creeping around? That’s just Paul, mate. You know Paul, he’s been living in the attic for years. Stupid human, doesn’t even recognize it’s own flatmates.
Very possible thought line for one of my dogs. The other doesn’t trust anyone without endless cajoling.
My dog would have just befriended the person and convinced them to bring him snacks.
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.
Because humans are much more sneaky and vicious than that. People like that in the real world are squatters who can and have harmed them on discovery.
It’s so interesting that people assume the worst of the human, unironically says something about society. I was just imagining a homeless person.
I take your point, but the reasoning “this person has already demonstrated themselves willing, able, and motivated to breach a major social contract related to your safety; therefore I fear that they may try to breach more” is not unreasonable. The proportion of “home invaders who are also (willing to be) murderers” is gonna be way larger than the proportion of willing murderers among the general population.
Absolutely with you here. Roaches is normal at worst
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?
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.
Killing a thousand roaches would be pretty difficult… I’m just sayin’…
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
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
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Leave for the day.
I don’t want to deal with any person that can handle the intense summer heat in my attic without dying.
Yes, its 110+ F here during the day… the attic… well a few years ago we had a guy out to service…
He FELL down the attic ladder due to heat stroke. Its one of those almost straight ladders that fold into the ceiling.
He was thankfully ok, and after some AC and water, was right as rain… I should say, he was a young guy in good health, and not only that a friend of a family member. We wanted to take care of him, first and foremost. If we thought medical attention was needed (and my own ass has had heat stroke, I know it) we would have called emergency services. We didn’t want to stick him with an ambulance bill (no insurance, private contractor) if he didn’t need it.
But fuck, 1k roaches? You know what, I’ll board the animals, use it as an excuse to get a nice hotel room with the wife, see if we can both take PTO for the week off and take an unprompted vacay, while the exterminator does their business.
That being said, 10 years ago, when I was much much poorer, with much more tenuous job stability… I’d take a knife up for the human in the attic, take the body to a family friend with a pig farm. Pigs make the best witnesses. They eat all the evidence, and can’t speak.
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.
Are they tidy? Do they clean up and keep the noise at a dull roar? They can stay.
A person because you can reason with him. Maybe he’s cool when you get to know him. You can’t get to know 1000 roaches because there are so many of them and they have no brains
“normal” people don’t hide/live in someone’s attic. The chances that they are disturbed past reason or dangerous is quite high.
Roaches do have brains
Absolutely a person. Worst case scenario a human is far easier to remove than a thousand roaches and that’s assuming they can’t be reasoned with or even befriended
There’s a chance they’re the love of your life
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.
How would they even prove intent in any of those cases? Has that ever actually happened?
You can’t always prove intent. That’s why some of these problems are systemic. Which one are you doubting? There are too many examples of each for me to list all of them.
All of them, honestly. I’m not asking to argue any point or any other; I’m genuinely curious, you seem to know more about it than I do and I am too lazy to Startpage it.
Here is a short list that I came up with after a quick search. Justifiable homicide is a similar concept to this, albeit more specific than just ‘killing’.
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.
Hypothetically, if I knew someone, who was absolutely not me, that had 1000 sterilized people in their attic, would that be a crime?
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Oh shit, I’m a VIRGO.
I don’t think I want to learn from someone who was hiding in my attic
The Roaches. I can simply kill the person. I could claim insurance for the damage caused by the roaches.
Why tf would you kill the person??? You don’t know anything about them
I know they’re in my attic.
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You’ll also notice, I no longer have any freaks and weirdos in my attic.
They in your attic and are probably dangerous. It would be the immediate reaction of many people
Because they have common sense
No, common sense is asking them to leave or calling the police
No, common sense is either shooting someone who is threatening or trying to literally rape and murder you, or incapacitating them if you are big and strong enough and feel the need to. Self defense is a more important human right than any other right, and supercedes any rights any aggressor claims to.
We’re talking about a human who is living in your attic without your knowledge. People like that are unhinged and dangerous. And legally squatters, for whom if you do not remove them swiftly and likely violently they will either take you to court and take your house, or otherwise be violent toward you and those you love.
And for you to claim otherwise means you’re just a bad person. Goodbye
Depends on the person TBH
Well let’s get specific; what sort of person would you pick over 1000 roaches, and vice versa?
If the guy was a chill roommate, probably preferable to cockroaches. Creepy or violent would probably push things towards the mostly harmless insects.
Just someone cool, who also pitches in for rent.
Maybe they sweep the attic now and then.
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
Yeah but I feel like modern insecticides/ pest control methods are pretty good. Probably could have the roaches nipped in the bud with 1-2 visits from a decent exterminator. Involving the police etc sounds like a much bigger ordeal
Does anyone know I’ve found this person?
I want to hear your answer for both options.
What?
Free person.
Think of the possibilities.
“Is anyone aware that I have located the individual in my attic?”
A person, she/he will be staying there nice and tight 🪢
