Actually, I once live in a roach-infested apartment. I made it my primary GOAL to eliminate as many cockroaches in the most inhumane way possible. I hate those fuckers! I didn't mind them so much, but when I would bring a girl over, I had to make sure she never had the chance to turn on a light for herself, I would always have to go into the room in front of her, turn on the light and stall her for a couple seconds while the roaches all hid away. That way, the girls wouldn't know I had roaches everywhere and I could still get some action.
Anyways, I really wanted them to die. So I started doing research on them and looking them up on entomology sites and shit. Well, if you kill a female cockroach, she can still have baby roaches even if she is dead. The baby roaches will still gestate, or whatever in her body even once she is dead. THat' sprobably where the wives tale comes from.
One time I made a home made roach trap, which consisted of a long piece of duct tape layed sticky side up where the roaches liked to frolick. The roaches would walk on to the duct tape and get stuck there. One time a pregnant roach got stuck on the duct tape and gave birth to a few baby roaches. They were small and I couldn't tell what the fuck that shit was on the tape, so I poked the mamma roach with a pencil and the little fuckin bitch squirted out another half-dozen roaches!!! They all died painful deaths.
By the way, if any of you have roach infestations, shoot me an IM. If there's enough interest, I will start a thread with roach killing tips.
-Nick Viejo.