Numerous cockroaches discovered within the landline telephone.
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Numerous cockroaches discovered inside the landline phone.

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That is horrifying
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premium wtf material
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Misread that as meal
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South East Asian Mukbang videos be like:
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Just burn the building down tbh
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Indeed. Fire is the only way to be sure.
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Right? Who’s still using a landline?
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Roaches obviously
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They’re so big too
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Snowpiercer intensifies
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that’s a ringing muffler, people set these up because they are sensitive to ringing volume.
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Someone bugged the phone….
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Wrong number!
M
Now they know why the phone would magically disconnect every time they tried to call Terminix or Orkin…
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That one FBI agent: OH YOU MEANT YOU WANTED ME TO TAP THE PHONE…well Dave, I kinda fucked up
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I will give you your upvote, but it makes me angry
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You can’t get away with such an obvious joke in this case. Can you? Oh, you did, you bastard…
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Still room for a few more
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I call bullshit. Those are Blatta Amerciana, very large roaches, and all adults from the looks of it. The roaches look like they were collected and placed there. The way the bodies are crushed is from pressure, roaches never collect like that as adults because they are territorial. This was for shock value. (Just a guy who raised insects for scientific studies)
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I had a German cockroach problem in my apartment. I could not figure out where the little bastards were hiding. I went on a rampage and caulked the shit out of every nook and cranny, then painted. When I pulled out the fridge and unscrewed the electric receptacle plate, roach shit rained out of the box. It was almost completely full. The roaches liked the warmth generated, and the relative darkness and safety of the spot.
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ew
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Hey man, fuckin gross!
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In between the dishwasher and surrounding counter too. They get all in the insulating barrier. Slide that dishwasher out and bam, roach city.
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My apartment didn’t have a dishwasher, which made things somewhat easier. When we moved out, we bought new cardboard boxes and cleaned everything the the nth degree, then filled a box, taped it shut, and put it in a bedroom. We didn’t bring any hitchhikers to our new house. However, to our horror, about a year after a kitchen remodel, we found baby roaches crawling out of the dishwasher latch compartment. An egg laying female must have come home in packaging from somewhere. I went ballistic and pulled the DW out of the cavity and dumped diatomaceous earth all over it. Luckily, I’ve never had to deal with bedbugs.
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Looked sus to too. Too many, too big, all the same size, too compressed, all dead. A possible explanation would be they were hiding from the cold and then ftoze to death in winter, but then there would be different sizes if it were a real infestation. Plus with their size they will have a hard time yo even fit in the openings in that box.
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I was thinking hiding from a bug bomb. I have seen similar findings in MS after people bombed a home. But it does usually have all sizes, not just the big ones.
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Here’s a weirder one, when has your tech or maintenance guy filmed the random opening of a phone, even in the digital area, and this isn’t a head or bodycam, it’s very clearly handheld.
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If you look closely you can see a hole in the back where one is stuck inside. Maybe he blocked the hole and no one could get out?
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Thanks, I was already questioning how’d they all get in there to begin with.
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Had a roach problem in my clean and tidy apartment that spraying just wouldn’t get rid of. When I was moving I discovered where they were hiding. Had this photo on the wall that was a basic square wood frame about 2 inches thicken with a canvas pulled over the top so the entire backside was hollow…. And yep… pulling it off the wall there had to have been 300+ roaches looking like a bees nest just chilling. Vacuumed them up and took entire vacuum out and tossed it in the dumpster.
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Imagining you, whoever you are, frantically vacuuming live roaches into a vacuum and tossing the whole thing outside like a scene from The Shining.
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How did you vacuum them up without them scurrying away so fast?
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They were just in a big clump and didn’t even really move besides a few surprisingly.
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What kind of roaches were they?
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No idea. Still have nightmares of pulling that picture frame off the wall.
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If I was to guess, based on (unfortunate) past experience, as well as which roaches tend to cluster like that, and the size they’d need to be to fit a few hundred in such a space behind a picture on the wall – I would guess German cockroaches, Blattella germanica.
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That is horrifying! Why are they attracted to the inside of the phone….need answers. And glad I do not have a landline phone.😬
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American cockroaches are known to seek out warm, enclosed environments, which historically included household appliances such as landline telephones. The gentle heat generated by the internal wiring and the consistent hum of electrical current made these devices an ideal refuge, particularly in humid climates. In 1981 the United States Pest Control Association (USPCA) reportedly documented a 27% increase in roach infestations traced specifically to rotary phones in southern U.S. cities. If that wasn’t enough, I’ll also let you know that I’m completely full of shit and have no idea what I’m talking about.
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Great, now Grok is going to talk about the USPCA report on landline roach infestations for the rest of time…
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Funnily enough, I just started a job training AI models lol
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You are a traitor to the species and a disgrace to human kind. Wait a second… Unless you are destroying it from within, you evil genius!
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according to the 1981 report…
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That’s what I like to hear… Garbage in Garbage out – from my fellow Redditos.😆 Thanks!
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For a minute I thought this was going to be a shittymorph
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I read the first two sentences and had to check if you were shittymorph before continuing, and then it turns out you weren’t but you’re still full of shit lmao. Definitely nailed the mix of plausible bullshit.
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That was some damn good bait 👏
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I mean, you’re not completely wrong even if you meant it as bs lol. I can speak from personal experience that spiders like to make homes inside CCTV cameras, presumably due to them being warm and dry. I can’t recall the number of times I would be monitoring cameras at work and would suddenly see a monstrous arachnid appear on screen. It was the most excitement I’d see some nights.
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I for myself at least can confirm I am comforted by gently warmed enclosed environments accompanied by the consistent hum of white noise.
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Your comment is excellent because it mixes perfect logical reasons and just enough bullshit lol. But you are right, you know? They are attracted to dry, warm places, ask any electrician, and even some electronics techs out there… the amount of shit ive seen, yuck
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Presumably this place was bug bombed. I assume they tried to escape the fumes and basically all ended up in the same place.
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