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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 3:33pm

swcoulthurst

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 3:33pm

wtfamidoinghere wrote on Sun Jul 7, 2019 2:51pm:
Noooo. Urban myth, I'm afraid. Go ahead and stomp.
Best time to catch them was in May when you see the buggers shagging. Spray them and you got 2 for the price of one AND no babies from their night of nuptials! They produce about 50 sprogs per bonk!

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I amuse myself every year as the local gunslinger, armed with cocky spray. Last year I got about 350.
Treat it like a Battle of Britain score - kills and probables. It's great fun!
Most were in my bloody front garden (they like my umbrella bush) but some were "away matches" (going to/returning from pub) or on neighbours walls. One or two were in the house! My belief is they get in through the oven extractor so, before turning in, I turn on the extractor, spray a bit of cocky killer up it and turn the fan off.
The Mercadona sprays are brill! Black tin or brown, those cockies are history.
Been working overseas a lot this year so my "kills" are well down this year but I intend to make up for it when I'm back!
.....kin' 'ell......the things you do when you're single............................. :)

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 4:12pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 4:12pm

Actually, we could make a Cocky Championship. Sort of like the Champions League.

Each Urbanisation can notify their kills (or probables) on here every week. Give yourselves names like.............oh I dunno...."Cocky Busters" or "Cock Squashers".

We can make a league table and at the end of the season (around October) the winning urbanisation gets a jam jar full of dead roaches which they can display proudly on their mantelpiece until the next season starts. It'll be the Cocky Trophy.

I predict pretty high scores (no overestimating though - honesty is key here) so we can make footy-type songs to aim at the bloody council who DON'T spray our drains. Like...."Where the F***ing where the f***ing where the f***ing hell are yoooo? Where the f***ing hell are you"?

Bloody 'ell I need a woman.......................

Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 8:53pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 8:53pm

I can honestly say I have never had any of them after I plugged in a pest reject plug in.

Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 8:56pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 8:56pm

Geoffrey999 wrote on Sun Jul 7, 2019 8:53pm:
I can honestly say I have never had any of them after I plugged in a pest reject plug in.

called " class"

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 8:57pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 8:57pm

wtfamidoinghere wrote on Sun Jul 7, 2019 2:51pm:
Noooo. Urban myth, I'm afraid. Go ahead and stomp.
Best time to catch them was in May when you see the buggers shagging. Spray them and you got 2 for the price of one AND no babies from their night of nuptials! They produce about 50 sprogs per bonk!

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I amuse myself every year as the local gunslinger, armed with cocky spray. Last year I got about 350.
Treat it like a Battle of Britain score - kills and probables. It's great fun!
Most were in my bloody front garden (they like my umbrella bush) but some were "away matches" (going to/returning from pub) or on neighbours walls. One or two were in the house! My belief is they get in through the oven extractor so, before turning in, I turn on the extractor, spray a bit of cocky killer up it and turn the fan off.
The Mercadona sprays are brill! Black tin or brown, those cockies are history.
Been working overseas a lot this year so my "kills" are well down this year but I intend to make up for it when I'm back!
.....kin' 'ell......the things you do when you're single............................. :)

Brilliant reply

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 9:05pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 9:05pm

Glad you enjoyed it :)

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 9:29pm

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Posted: Sun Jul 7, 2019 9:29pm

There is easy access front and back for them to get into my house.I speak as I find I don't care if you find it an urban myth as you say.It works for me end of

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Posted: Mon Jul 8, 2019 7:28am

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Posted: Mon Jul 8, 2019 7:28am

A couple of weeks ago in Cyprus, while on a petsit, I had to call the pest control guy out as one bathroom was 'breeding' cockroaches. He reckoned they came up mainly through the drain system - toilet, sinks, shower etc. And indeed, when he lifted the covers off the drains outside, to spray, it was like an Indiana Jones movie... Hundreds and hundreds of cockroaches swarming inside. I couldn't even bear to look, it freaked me out! He said he would need to come back to spray after 4 weeks as the eggs are on a 4-week cycle (or something to that effect). I was super delighted to not see another cockroach after that spraying session. The owner also reckoned she had never had cockroaches before...

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Posted: Mon Jul 8, 2019 2:45pm

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Posted: Mon Jul 8, 2019 2:45pm

The problem in Orihuela Costa is that the council do not spray the drains regularly - if at all, in some years (like last year in our area). If you go away for a period of time and/or your property will be empty, put the plugs in the plug holes, ensure there is someone to put water down the loo/bidet and put corks in the overflow holes!

Job's a good 'un.

But put your angry face on when you see one and spray them without mercy! :)

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Posted: Mon Jul 8, 2019 2:55pm

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Posted: Mon Jul 8, 2019 2:55pm

wtfamidoinghere wrote on Mon Jul 8, 2019 2:45pm:
The problem in Orihuela Costa is that the council do not spray the drains regularly - if at all, in some years (like last year in our area). If you go away for a period of time and/or your property will be empty, put the plugs in the plug holes, ensure there is someone to put water down the loo/b...

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...idet and put corks in the overflow holes!
Job's a good 'un.
But put your angry face on when you see one and spray them without mercy! :)

Tried in Villamartin. Angry face (& all!) he said....." oh mas ingleses?," & smiled. Villas.