I am not making this up -- a bug just screamed at me

[jumptheshadow]

About once a year the maintenance people here do some work in the pipes and that leads to a Godzilla-sized cockroach confronting us in our bathroom. (Luckily, we don't usually see roaches elsewhere in the household.) I mean, these are roaches are huge, like they are on steroids or something.

We have had a couple of mega-roach sitings in the past two days. Today, I saw it sitting in the bathroom sink. So I got some paper and tried to whisk it to the john.

That damn bug screamed. Well, maybe scream is too strong a word for it. It made a noise like "ah" that sounded like a human when it was startled. I was so surprised -- and unnerved -- that I dropped it. It disappeared somewhere in the vicinity of the toilet.

I never knew that a roach could scream.

I haven't been watching too much "Fringe," have I?

[Dogtown]

1. Xanax withdrawal?

i'm just sayin'....

[siligut]

2. Good to hear!

I have heard a cockroach make a noise when it was scared too, and it sounded like a scream to me. I was about 5 and had no idea that they didn’t scream, so I just went to ask my mom about it. She thought I was making it up. I thought that if I could find it again, well we could sorta be friends.

[Betty88]

3. Thank you Jump for trying to get the bug..

Ok so let me first explain that nothing, and I mean nothing, makes me scream like a girl like a bug of any sort. The once yearly invasion of the giant roach is an event that I dread, perhaps second only to mammograms. So I want to publicly thank jump for taking it upon herself to rid our household of this unholy invader.

This is however by no means a pass on letting this thing live in our home. Just cause it makes a noise does not mean I am going to make friends with it. I have been encouraging the cats to hang out in the bathroom till the screaming stops.

[pitohui]

8. btw some people pay money for these as PETS

i wouldn't let it hang out in my house either but i've seen them on sale for as much as $10

they are madagascar hissing cockroach

as far as i know they don't carry germs

[JustJeking]

4. Good GOD!

They scream?! I'm deaf - so these kind of things normally escape me.

Ugh. Regardless if I see one in my house again, they're meeting my new friend, Raid.

[SOteric]

5. Very likely

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hissing_cockroach

[pitohui]

6. madagascar hissing cockroach (introduced to usa w.in the last decade)

although i do not think they are as common as our voiceless "palmetto bug" cockroaches and i do not find them to be a problem

but sure they're around

don't blame your xanax just yet :-)

[crim son]

7. The Lilybeetle will do the same thing.

It's totally creepy! IOW, I believe you. :D

[baldguy]

9. He realized Sarah Palin was in the lower 48?