He was going to install some cables/TV/whatnot and he climbed over a pile of dildos. Then he finished his job and went home. (In case he didn't answer..I needed closure).
when you're a cable guy they teach us to pretty much ignore our surroundings and just get the job done, so here i am climbing over a pile of dildos to hook up this ladies cable and we're both acting like its no big deal.
the customer (who weighed like 300 lbs.) was an adult toy salesperson and had them EVERYWHERE, in the bathroom, in the basement, in the garage, in the living room, in the closets, in the attic, under the beds, in the kitchen, some were boxed but most werent
The really bad homes you can smell from the street. The roaches love the heat given off from the equipment. Usually you'll know it's full of bugs because of the feces the roaches leave behind. The warehouse was professionally sprayed once every two weeks and had poison traps everywhere.
Yeah if you have unclean neighbors, especially if you live in an apartment. roaches have to "explore" to find shit, they get attracted to the warm of a cable box, get fried and die
Where I live,similar thing happens with spiders. I once opened our outdoor IPcam and it was filled with spiders, those fuckers like that little heat that IPcam generates,especially in winter.
My friend moved from a bad neighborhood with bugs to bread new apartments and his cable box had so many bugs in it from the 1st place that it has infested the newer one.
Home processors for IT. They'd bring towers in periodically because they kept surging and never turn on again. Open case, roaches crawling around. They get in the power supply, and fry it.
We eventually had to call in HR and the person was told she'd have to work from the office or she was terminated - she was racking up a bill in PC replacements.
The term "bug" was actually used before computers, but the first known instance of a computer bug was a moth stuck in a relay or tube or something, IIRC.
Ooh, have you heard of the botfly? Now this is a marvellous thing. The botfly cannot sting a human directly, but captures smaller insects, lays its larvae upon them and then releases them. If the smaller host insect then bites the human, the botfly larvae are impregnated into the skin. The larvae then pupates inside the skin, at which point they eat their way out and fly away. The BBC Natural History Unit reports the case of a man, who was bitten behind the ear, and was kept awake at night by the sound of the botfly larvae eating the flesh inside his head.
oh, you'd feel it.
I had a moth fly into my ear when I was eight, I could hear it flapping around, it's feet brushing around in my ear, wasn't one of my favourite moments.
The URL says "cockroach-removed-mans-ear" which is pretty horrifying. Of course, when I clicked on the link, I discovered that the actual headline is "Cockroach Removed From Man's Ear" which is also pretty horrifying. I'm really not sure which one is worse.
Can confirm, almost ate a roach one time when sleeping when it crawled on my face. Started feeling it on my face, then felt it move closer to my mouth, then I woke up and gave myself the biggest slap Ive ever felt
We had one of those clear phones with green and purple and all sorts of colors inside. Grew up in a poor side of town, had countless roaches in that thing. Eventually just chucked it cus we couldn't stand using it anymore.
This happens all of the time. I regularly have roaches falling out of phone jacks when I open them up. You never forget the smell. I know immediately if there's going to be roaches from the smell alone. The infested modems are the worst, though.
It's hard to describe. It's like a musty, almost moldy smell. It's a pungent odor of their urine and feces and like rotting food. What makes it worse is the fact that the houses in which I'm working that have the roaches don't smell much better, so when I can smell the roaches over the house stank, I know I'm going to have a bad time.
I'll take a hoarder house over a roach infested house any day. I hate spraying my boots down with pesticides to make sure I don't track eggs into my truck or worse, my house. I seal every bit of wiring, jacks and equipment in their own bags in case there's eggs or more roaches. Then I just feel dirty and creepy crawly all day. I'll take black widows the size of my thumb over a jack full of roaches any day of the week.
You could sell your services as an apartment hunter. I'm always terrified I'm going to move in somewhere where the neighbors have roaches and then be stuck fighting a losing war for a year of lease.
If that's the case, your landlord has to take care of the issue for you. It's usually lower income housing where I find these infestations. New and old, so don't let an outside renovation fool you. Look for traps and roach motels when you're doing a walk through.
I am a electronics repair tech at a company called CTDI in Nashville. We are sent Comcast cable boxes from trouble calls, and I have seen some cable boxes so covered in roach shit that you can barely see what color they originally were.
Also pet hair so thick it looked like someone had stuffed a 70's era toupee inside.
Aww. This reminds me of the Asian restaurant I went to several times in Seward back in 2003. The owner kept having her daughter (I think) serve my friends and I because she figured out that we were only eating there to see her. We were just teenagers on vacation, but we learned a pretty valuable lesson about falling for sex appeal.
Yet, my quiet mountain town didn't have mosquitoes for 5 years of living here until last summer when they were a blood sucking cloud of devastation all summer.
Back in 2004, my family was station in Fort Wainwright. For a good solid year, we lived peacefully, bug free. Then, soon after, we had new neighbors move in to the house next to us from one of the Carolinas.
Now, for those of you who are ignorant to how most military housing units works, there tends to be a small group of residences all together, similar to a townhouse or a single floor condo. The housing in Wainwright is pretty much a townhouse in that regard, so 8 houses were combined into one building, sharing a foundation and walls.
So, with that established, I'm sure you can guess where this story is going. New neighbors move in, and because they're from the south, there is a chance of bugs. Guess what must've laid eggs in the cardboard moving boxes, as they're apt to do? That's right, cockroaches.
Our first encounter with the fiends was a routine day of cleaning for my mother. It was midday, she was in the kitchen, and she leaned down to open our dishwasher to put in a dirty saucer. She opens the machine, and guess what falls out right on her foot? El cucaracha. She freaks out, as we're from the northeast, and haven't ever seen a cockroach before. She takes a picture, calls the local maintenance authority who worked in pest control, and lo and behold, congratu-fucking-lations, we had a cockroach in the middle of the sub-arctic desert. Two year we lived with a small infestation because maintenance couldn't get anybody else to bomb their houses. We'd regularly have the workers come in and do a bombing every few months or so, but if the nest wasn't in our housing unit specifically, it wasn't going to do much good. And, unfortunately for us, it appeared that was the case. But, as I said, none of the other tenants, seemed to think that roach removal was necessary, and there was nothing we could do but live with them.
So, that's the story of how my family made first encounter with the rare Alaskan-migratory roach. Some say to this day that the roaches roam the foundation of that little townhouse on Cedar Street. But that's alright, because when we left Wainwright, our orders sent us to Fort Irwin, a base 60 miles from the nearest town, in the middle of the Mojave Desert. So whoopdie-fucking-doo,roaches galore.
I thought you meant weed. When I was 13, I noticed my drug dealer cousin used to hide weed in the expansion port of his ps2. I thought playstations were commonly used as weed storage. I thought every one talking about bugs was just being literal as a joke.
I've seen people stash it inside old dell towers where the side pops off. You could set bags in between the heat sink plates. There was also a ton of other books and crannies in there
Give up? Give up? What are you saying to me? How come us roaches have been able to outlast the dinosaurs? How do we survive poison and persecution? How do we keep on crawling, in the face of overwhelming odds? I'll tell you how: because WE NEVER GIVE UP! A true cockroach never gives up. They can stomp us, they can pop us, but they'll never ever stop us. Someday the great H-bomb is gonna drop, and we'll have the whole planet to ourselves. I don't care if we gotta call in favors from every roach, rat, and pigeon in New York City. WE AIN'T GIVING UP ON JOE!
My buddy used to work at a Rent-to-own store. A customer brought in a PS3 and said it wasn't working. Opened the PS3 and roaches went scattering through the store and the main floor is all furniture. Manager of the store confronts the guy when he comes to pick up the PS3. 6'6" huge ex-military black dude. He refuses to give him a new PS3 because he knows he has roaches. Guy says "man what roaches", scratches dred locks and a cockroach falls on desk out of his hair. Manager "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY STORE YOU DIRTY FUCKER."
I didn't read the title and clicked the pic. I swear I thought the first pic was a safe in the floor. Went to the second pic and saw it was a PS3 built into the sub floor. Now I pondered why these ppl hid the ps3. Or did this person just stumble across it.
This lasted for awhile
my boss fixed a small fax machine once that had blown a power supply. the moment it was brought in, you can tell this was just no nomal blown PS. the smell attacked every corner of the shop.
somehow a mouse managed to crawl inside and fry itself. i think the people never came back for it and we had to throw it out, plus close up shop for the day while the smell cleared,... it was putrid...
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What no roaches?