A person, easily. Worst case the authorities are involved and they're gone. Best case… well, let's not go there.

Person. It’s easier to seal up the hole they are getting in through.

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.

1000 roaches

Legally speaking, it's a lot easier to kill roaches than a person

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.

My ex-partner and I lived in their grandfather's house for a little while after he passed away. There were places we were not allowed like one storage room and the attic. We would often hear a radio come on in the attic and go off at various times and the occasional loud thump, and most weird was almost like sobbing, but we assumed it must be the old radio plugged in up there. Also every now and then his dad would "need to get into the attic" for no reason. The only access was on the outside of the roof through a trap door that was padlocked. My ex's birth certificate had an discrepancy on it that he had 3 siblings even though he only had 2. His mom said they just made a mistake, but he was 90% sure that his hidden sibling was living in that attic. I used to think it was a running joke, but looking back I think he was at least a little serious and I don't put it past his parents. They were completely insane and I'm glad he hasn't had contact with them in years (we're still friends). So roaches, def, roaches. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

A person, no hesitation

Only 1000 roaches? That's a lot lower than what I would actually expect to find.

"finding" 1 person is probably 1 person total

"Finding" 1000 roaches? Buckle up

I'm from Buenos Aires and i say kill them all.

I'd definitely have roaches over termites.

My first choice was find a person living there...but what kind of person would I find? People come in many varieties, whereas roaches are predictable. The kind of person that would break in to live in your attic might not be the best kind...eh I'll still take my chances.

I live in an attic myself, so ... define "find"?

Poison works on both but only one of them runs a chance of coming back without you knowing.

Can't kill a human without repercussions, but everyone understands straight up murdering roaches.

100% a person. Someone would be shot alright, it won't be me and that'll be easier to deal with than the roaches. A phone call to the coroner and $5 worth of peroxide and bleach (along with maybe $10 of 5.56 or $5 of 9mm) is much easier than having to book a hotel that takes cats, move me and my cats, and pay a guy to poison my house, and trash or move all food outside the fridge (I assume, because poison), and the catbox, etc. And it's not just the 1000, if there's 1000 visible, there's way more.