I feel like thats not even that many roaches for a real infestation

Also doesnt mention what kind

And there are proffesionals you can call probably once to deal with that problem.

If you find a human living in your attic unbeknownst to you well

Thats a lifetime of therapy or more to deal with after dealing with the immediate problem

Roaches every time

I'd rather the person. A roommate that's so good, I didn't even notice them there until I physically checked the attic? Perfect.

You can legally kill roaches.

From a practical standpoint, the person is theoretically easier to get rid of than the roaches because there's almost certainly only one of them and even if there's two, of opposite sex, it takes considerably more time and effort for them to produce any more of them and even then more than a decade before those offspring can themselves breed. That said a person is as big as at least 1000 cockroaches and has more natural defences.

It's a bit of a conundrum because there's probably more readily available resources for getting rid of roaches than a person, but they're probably less effective than most anti person resources that you can get if you can get them. You could try the anti roach tactics on the person but you'd have to get like a lot of roach spray and a lot of protective equipment because the cornered person is pretty dangerous. You couldn't even really call in a professional either because I reckon they'd likely run away when they discovered they weren't dealing with roaches.

Depending on your area the local police would probably be the best stand in for pest control at this scale and probably pretty effective too so ultimately the person is probably the better option of the 2 but that said it'd be an awful lot more disturbing than the 1000 roaches. There is at least the option of becoming friends with the person though which is not really an option with the roaches.

Does anyone know I've found this person?

You can call the police for a person.

You can't fir 1000 roches.

Hell i'd take a person over 10 roaches

Treating the question seriously, I think it is easy to think the one person is the right choice, because it just seems like less of a mess to deal with. However, I also think the end result is that you will never feel safe in your home again. You will always second guess if every squeak you hear is yet another person who somehow have made it into your house. This is the path towards slowly descending into madness.

Both problems can in theory be solved with a flamethrower

As a homeowner? Person. While it might be terrifying to discover a hobo living in the attic, at least they won't infest every electronic item I own. And they can't fit into the walls.

I made the mistake of staying with a boyfriend who didn't disclose his roach infestation until I was already there. My god. They were everywhere. They didn't even run when you turned the light, just give me a wave with one leg like, hey, how you doing?

I hate bugs, like HATE. But I watched that video of the girl living in the storage space in the ceiling. And she'd come down at night to eat food and piss in the sink... I'll take the bugs

One human sized roach, or 1000 roach sized humans?

Killing a thousand roaches would be pretty difficult.... I'm just sayin'......

It's a lot easier to kill a single human than 1000 roaches.

I don't want to deal with any person that can handle the intense summer heat in my attic without dying.

For once I am glad I live in a location that I would be too hot for anything to live in my attic.

If you have both, you could set them against each other and the problem might solve itself

A person because you can reason with him. Maybe he’s cool when you get to know him. You can’t get to know 1000 roaches because there are so many of them and they have no brains

People that live in attics write best selling books. I bet I could negotiate at least 60% of that profit if it was my fucking attic. Easy Choice.

“This is truly, on god, the first “would you rather” that I’ve ever had to devote significant thought to.”

They just don’t like punctuation.

Edit, sorry @ prenupbutter@lemm.ee I meant to reply to you.

Absolutely a person. Worst case scenario a human is far easier to remove than a thousand roaches and that's assuming they can't be reasoned with or even befriended

I could take sterilized roaches. Their power in that their population grows like hell. But 1000 you can kill off and that's settled? Okay, deal. Guess, the first hunt would take a half of them for good.

A person? You obviously can't kill them in most jurisdictions unless you are a LEO. But I'd look forward to reach out and cooperate with them in some way. Idk them and maybe they have cool things to talk about or learn from them. Imagine them blasting an ukulele and being open to teach you. Or just being a good friend material.

I'd probably take both and do bonding with a cellar person over killing bugs.

The Roaches. I can simply kill the person. I could claim insurance for the damage caused by the roaches.

Depends on the person TBH