A person, easily. Worst case the authorities are involved and they’re gone. Best case… well, let’s not go there.
I get that the question is an either/or, but nobody’s acknowledging the likelihood of a 1000 cockroaches being in the attic because of a person.
Just not a living one.
So, maybe this one of those paradox thingys?
Person. It’s easier to seal up the hole they are getting in through.
And people can be reasoned with. It’s likely just someone seeking shelter. I’ve been there in the past when I was homeless.
1000 roaches
Legally speaking, it’s a lot easier to kill roaches than a person
I’ll take the person. I lived with roaches in the past. Were impossible to get rid of and would keep destroying stuff including electronics. Not to mention the SOUND at night. Those 1000 roaches will also rapidly multiply to be way more.
I’m glad to be out of that place. In the person case I am sure I could either reason with them (If they’re living in my attic out if necessity) or have the authorities involved (If they’re a danger to me).
An easier (but more time consuming way) to get rid of roaches is with bait, not spray. Use spray only in areas you absolutely don’t want them to touch, because they know it’s bad and just avoid it. Use little amounts of bait everywhere else. Then you wait, and wait, and slowly they die and don’t come back.
Tried that. The issue is when the neighborhood is infested. They just come back again and again. Im glad to be out of that hell.
Person, definitely. I can call the cops on a person, and keep my distance until they respond. 1000 roaches means… fuck I don’t even KNOW what it takes to tackle a roach infestation that big, but it’s probably thousands of dollars and dozens of hours of labor.
If you can see 1000 roaches… You basically have roaches for walls…
Seeing that many is a sign of a massive infestation that will probably get your home condemned.
Even though I’m in an apartment and there’s no attic, a human. Dead or alive, it’d be about 3,000,000 times quicker to get rid of a single person than pests.
It’s easier to get rid of a single person, but murdering a human is a crime in most countries.
You think that, but squatters have a lot of rights which can make it very hard and expensive or even impossible to get rid of them…
