My son had a hilarious story about trying to kill a cockroach in his room for about an hour one night. He sprayed it with surface spray, threw a book at it and bashed it with a shoe. After each attempt it would lie on its back with its legs in the air for a couple of minutes, then suddenly start buzzing around again. Finally, when it was mashed almost beyond recognition and he was carrying it downstairs on a dustpan to throw in the bin, it revived once more and attempted to jump out the window! He eventually managed to hammer it to a pulp on the landing, using a steel capped boot.
Argh this damn thing just happened to me. I found this cockroach while brushing my teeth and chased it around my room, and it ran into my bathroom. It hid into one of those empty toilet paper rolls and I threw it quickly in the toilet and flushed. Surely enough it came crawling back so I flushed it a few more times and now it's gone.
God damn cockroaches, now I won't be able to take a shit whithout thinking it'll come up and bite me
Mike says he woke up with a cockroach on his chest a couple months ago, but I have yet to see one. The next time you encounter any unsavory bugs and do not have any specially-designed bug spray, I recommend boiling water in a kettle and pouring it onto/dropping the bug into it. Kills them instantly - like a lobster.
Yikes! We have woodroaches here, & one time I went outside on the deck to spray some. This particular one was on the overhang of the roof. I sprayed it. It then flew onto my shirt. MY SHIRT!!!!! I run around the deck, screaming, while I yank my shirt over my head. Such a horrible experience.
But seriously, walking in & finding those gigantic things is seriously disturbing. Then I go call my father to kill it.
I had a similar thing with a giant cockroach. We sprayed it, and then beat it with a shoe till it was it's body was separated from it's head and it's guts were all over the floor, and IT WAS STILL MOVING.
Move to Ireland, no cockroackes here. And less crime. 
Adding the cleaner probably lowered the surface tension of the water, allowing the insect (with a hydrophobic exoskeleton) to drown. It's the same concept us entomologists use to make traps.
And, yes, even entomologists hate roaches. Our lab has two species of cockroaches in it and every time I see one of those big roaches I want to throw up.
A similar cockroach incident happened to me the other day including cup, cardboard, and drowning in the toilet. The one difference, the cockroack I encountered FLEW! It flew over my head not once, but twice. *SHUDDER*
Cockroaches are quite the worthy adversary. Well done.
Camera is awesome. Roach is not.
I recommend picking up a can of Raid aerosol if you spot anymore of those things. You can nail 'em from a distance, and they die pretty quick.
That. Is. Nasty. I can take a lot of things, but cockroaches are not one of them.
I love your blog, by the way. I'm from the area of CT that you are from (although I am still here, while you have escaped).
I think your neighbor is a crackwhore. I honestly did have my apartment robbed once... and turns out it was by my neighbors who told me about the breakin!
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