Killed a cockroach with a vacuum cleaner

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[Post New]07/03/2015 22:47
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I am in Texas right now and staying with a relative for July 4th. They have cockroaches occasionally (not the kind you'll find in DC- these are the flying type, indigenous to the area and there's really no way to get rid of them)

I sucked one up with a vacuum cleaner and I need to know if this will kill them!
[Post New]07/03/2015 22:52
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Anonymous
It works for me, but I used to use a rubber band to hold a plastic bag as a cap because I'm terrified of spiders.
[Post New]07/03/2015 22:55
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Anonymous
kill roaches with dish soap. it suffocates them. if you smash them to pieces, you might spray tiny babies everywhere.
[Post New]07/03/2015 22:55
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Anonymous
OMG where in Texas? City? Suburb? Rural? I need to know. This is frightening.
[Post New]07/03/2015 22:57
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:kill roaches with dish soap. it suffocates them. if you smash them to pieces, you might spray tiny babies everywhere.


Tiny babies? Gross.
[Post New]07/03/2015 22:58
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Anonymous wrote:kill roaches with dish soap. it suffocates them. if you smash them to pieces, you might spray tiny babies everywhere.


Can I pour it inside the vacuum or will that mess it up?
[Post New]07/03/2015 23:01
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:kill roaches with dish soap. it suffocates them. if you smash them to pieces, you might spray tiny babies everywhere.


Can I pour it inside the vacuum or will that mess it up?


what kind of vacuum? it doesn't take much soap to suffocate them. can you mix soap and water in a spray bottle? that would be less likely to gunk up the vacuum.
[Post New]07/03/2015 23:03
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:kill roaches with dish soap. it suffocates them. if you smash them to pieces, you might spray tiny babies everywhere.


Can I pour it inside the vacuum or will that mess it up?


what kind of vacuum? it doesn't take much soap to suffocate them. can you mix soap and water in a spray bottle? that would be less likely to gunk up the vacuum.


I dont know what kind of vacuum it is, it's old and I know nothing about vacuums. But I sucked it up using an attachment, maybe I can pour soup into the attachment part and seal it off with a thing of plastic wrap
[Post New]07/03/2015 23:52
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Anonymous wrote:OMG where in Texas? City? Suburb? Rural? I need to know. This is frightening.


Lol
[Post New]07/03/2015 23:54
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Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:kill roaches with dish soap. it suffocates them. if you smash them to pieces, you might spray tiny babies everywhere.


Can I pour it inside the vacuum or will that mess it up?


what kind of vacuum? it doesn't take much soap to suffocate them. can you mix soap and water in a spray bottle? that would be less likely to gunk up the vacuum.


I dont know what kind of vacuum it is, it's old and I know nothing about vacuums. But I sucked it up using an attachment, maybe I can pour soup into the attachment part and seal it off with a thing of plastic wrap


Unless it's a wet/dry shop vac, I wouldn't be putting any liquid through it.

It's just a bug.
[Post New]07/04/2015 00:22
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Anonymous
It needs to die.
[Post New]07/04/2015 00:25
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Anonymous
Ask your friend about the Texas centipedes and scorpions....
[Post New]07/04/2015 00:29
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Anonymous
It's not dead and it can crawl out. Suck up some boric acid powder and maybe that'll do it.
[Post New]07/04/2015 00:30
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Anonymous
Change the vacuum bag.
[Post New]07/04/2015 00:32
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Anonymous
Dunk the whole bag in dish soap
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