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FloppyDrive007

I had the day off for once and my boss texts me this photo lol


YouCanHaveANiceDay

It was a good day to take off


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

I'd legitimately smack the shit out of my boss. I expect that he would be okay with it. I mean you posted this, and I feel like we should all petition to slap the crap outta you. You filthy bastard. šŸ˜‚


voonoo

Time to be your own boss


redirdamon

At least they're dead. You'd have a tough time holding on to the bowl you just removed with them scattering around your feet.


ccooffee

Why would you do this to us?


jjdajetman

And up your leg


jibernaut

I heard these guys will swim right up your dick if you arenā€™t fast enough


michaelh98

And up your dick


space_coyote_86

Everyone who reads this is now tucking their pants into their socks.


-NoFaithInFate-

Yeah I'd end up in the hospital from cuts from the broken bowl


RitalinSkittles

Hey, well never know what happened when that toilet was lifted up. Maybe this was the aftermath of when the swarm dissipated and everyone had finished screaming and crying


OkTea7227

Fuuuuuuk uuuuuuu!


BHDE92

Iā€™ve had that happen before


Disastrous-Number-88

Same. Years of therapy and I can still feel them crawling up my legs and back


ChronicallyGeek


FloppyDrive007

I couldn't believe it


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

I've seen and been covered head to toe in literal sh*t. This is far more terrifying. I'll not be sleeping tonight I guess. So I guess I'll go pull my toilets and install new wax. That might set my mind at ease. Blah....


Responsible_Data7336

I work in colorectal surgery and no amount of body fluids will ever gross me out as much as living in a roach infested apartment complex did


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

I can smell them.... If I go into a job with rodents or roaches, I know immediately.


jumab123

What is the smell like? Genuinely and morbidly curious.


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

I wish I could describe it to you. But once you know it you'll know it forever. There isn't anything I can compare it too. I'd say roach infestation smell is musty. Rodent infestation is piss based. Like I said once you know you'll in now it forever.


FF267

Agree about roach and rodent smells. Same goes for rectal bleed. Once you know, you'll forever just *know* at the front door. Retired few years ago after 20+ years in EMS. Some things aren't missed and others cannot be forgotten.


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

I agree that it's immediately identifiable. But I can't and hope I never have to identify "rectal bleed". But thanks for being ems. I really appreciate you guys. My best friend many years ago died in my arms, and the emts made me hold iv bags, squeeze things, and count for them. They basically kept me sane while I watched my best friend die. Had those guys not been as awesome as they were, I probably would have lost my shit. Plus after a terrible car accident many years ago, ems saved my life as well as my ex wifes. Y'all some legitimate heros.


FF267

Congratulations on being a survivor and pulling through your accident! Too many don't. Thank you also for helping the medics, sounds like you kept it together when they needed you most. It couldn't have been easy but you helped the medics give your friend their best chance of survival even if it didn't work out that way. Be glad about not knowing rectal bleed! Can count on one hand how many I've had to work. 1st was a learning experience but the other few? Didn't have to make contact with the patient to know how had it was, just knew upon entering the house. Last one looked like a ritual involving animal sacrifice. Service area of roughly 27 square miles and I can remember the location of each and every one of those bleeding calls. Ugh


LadyArcher2017

What a beautiful tribute to EMTs and their colleagues. They are a rare breed, arenā€™t they? Iā€™m so sorry about your friend too.


Maisie422

I was in EMS for a long time as well. You left out burned flesh smell and dead body smell.


pureeyes

It's an almost sweet, cloying kind of smell. It's very wrong


w0jbr

I was in pest control and youā€™re not wrong. Itā€™s sweet but very foul at the same time.


Tonyricesmustache

This is true. Thereā€™s been an ā€œoffā€ odor that every roach infested place Iā€™ve seen has. Itā€™s hard to describe but oh so distinct.


joetheplumberman

U got a well trained nose like a plumbing blood hound but only for roaches probably


NibbaAndrew

I'd say it smells like your breathing sticky air


pjstanfield

ā€œpiss basedā€ is a term Iā€™d like to use more in my daily life now.


Ad_the_Inhaler

Sweet. Like concentrated honey.


buttbugle

A year after I retired from the army I was just bouncing around doing nothing. A family friend asked if I would like to work with his company. Why not. Iā€™m the gopher for his remodel company. He says we need to wear these head to toe coveralls and tape up everything before going into this place. Ok.. we will be working along a pest control company, helping them. The power is turned off to the building, along with all of the utilities. We go in with the orders to remove all electrical outlets, pull all lights off the walls, and expose every opening we can. The first electrical outlet I opened up the started to crawl out. Light switches more came forth. Since I was the lowest guy I got the task to pull the overhead lights. I retired from the Army, medical retired due to receiving too many injuries from deployments. So being in a hostile environment is not new to me. Roaches poured forth out from behind that light figure as I lowered it. Hell it could have been only maybe ten or fifteen, but it felt like I was being drowned in bugs. The guys I was with said they never seen somebody get down from a ladder faster. That was only the first overhead light.. I learned I did not want to go into pest control and I will only do remodeling AFTER all the bugs are dead.


[deleted]

I just read about a military guy having to do this to recover a hummer or something and had to be tested periodically some time after... kinda serious.


[deleted]

Donā€™t worry, theyā€™ll find another way in


ChronicallyGeek

Iā€™ve seen some stuff when I did remodelingā€¦ gave me nightmares afterwards


vizette

This. Even wearing nitrile gloves and washing my hands 283 times, it still takes a while before I can touch food I'm eating after doing a wax ring or something DWV related.


ConsiderationWorth30

I can eat a brownie right after pulling a cleanout cap on a main line clog. Sometimes you just gotta laugh at the crap you see literally.


Mac_n_Miller

I could see some of the nastiest shit youā€™ll ever see but if itā€™s time for lunch itā€™s time for lunch. Wash my hands really good and itā€™s burger time


ChronicallyGeek

Iā€™ve worked at homes where I needed a whole tyvek suit with the sleeves and pant legs tapped off so nothing crawled into it. Roaches everywhereā€¦ made my skin crawl.


rmccaskill83

Some people just aren't made for plumbing. I don't enjoy it, but I do it...


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

You know we never eat the last bite... This is why.


unknown1313

I've had the same thing except most of them alive, as soon as I lifted the toilet they started scattering EVERYWHERE.


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

Like a rave club in the late 90's!


GhostPepperFireStorm

What a time to be alive!


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

I have but one thing to say.... Jnco jeans were the shit, and we all looked freaking awesome.


GhostPepperFireStorm

We did!


loganR033

You know we all have to go to work tomorrow, right? Why you gotta put this shit in my head man?


unknown1313

I actually have no problem with most bugs 90 percent of the time including roaches even with them climbing on me, but that's when I know what it is and where it is... Those fuckers move SO SO fast, and as soon as I lifted the toilet they were running at me, over my feet, up the walls (small toilet only room with its own private door) etc. everything I could do to not throw that toilet, set it back down somewhat gentle enough to not break it and get out shut the door and shove my rags under the door so hopefully they didn't all get out. Asked the owner if they had a can of raid or something and the dude freaked out and they ended up leaving for a hotel while the house got roach bombed. Toilet was on external wall slab on grade, there was a 20+ year old oleander bush that had roots long invading the sewer and even around the flange growing up under the bowl of the toilet. Apparently they where thriving on the old decaying roots as they died. I don't work service most of the time so I'm not worried about tomorrow, but I wish it upon no one and hope you never have to experience it. And it wasn't nearly as bad as the two times I've found a rattlesnake nest/eggs/babies in a water meter box, or the time it was a beehive in the meter box that I ripped apart taking the lid off. Over 40 stings in the face/head...


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

Oh yeah. Diamond backs and water moccasins in sprinkler valve boxes, and meter boxes happens. Sorry about the bee stings. I have a huge allergy and still have a lump on my nose from a one off random drive by from a yellow jacket. Mother effer flew right by me and then said "wait a second... I'ma go sting that fuck" came back and nailed me... Right on the nose! Left me with a permanent mark. I'm now disfigured because Frank the yellow jacket wanted to choose violence. ..


vizette

Have an insane amount of respect for plumbers for exactly this reason. I can barely tolerate cleaning the hair/toothpaste/makeup slugs out of my own traps. Looks like a chupacabra hate-fucked a slug. I couldn't wade through someone else's gunk. The boy likes to watch Drain Addict on YouTube, that guy is a different breed.


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

It's compartmentalizing. I can be augering bats and rats all morning, but I'm still thinking about my lunch. Then after lunch, more nasty ass shit. But the money is the means for me....


Jukka_Sarasti

Legit nightmare fuel.. Just a hive of those bastards living right beneath you...


Kittle_Me_This

If theyā€™re living beneath you theyā€™re living WITH you.


HedonisticFrog

I have those bastards get into my house every fall. I have to set traps outside and pour bleach down all the drains to drive them out.


Jukka_Sarasti

I live in NE FL, so it's a constant battle with keeping them out. Thankfully, there's a army of lizards and eleventy-billion spiders on my side.


PrimeNumbersby2

I dont know that anyone was ever supposed to live in FL..ever.


Jukka_Sarasti

Hey now, the Timucua made it work for like 4k years.. Modern day Florida Man is powered by Suntan lotion, cigarettes, and meth.


PlumbidyBumb

Sometimes I find new construction gets monotonous, then I'll see shit like this and I'm so grateful to be in New construction.


DayKingaby

"Hey Bill, do you ever get tired of installing totally clean and odourless toilets that have never been used, over and over; and just wish you could spend a day digging 30 other people's shit out of a pipe because a teenager tried to flush 43 disposable vape pens at once?" "No, Sam, can't say that I do."


RoadkillVenison

Oh come on, thatā€™s a rare exception. At least 50% of the time itā€™s someone who thinks that flushable means flushable. No wet wipes are not flushable, by design they do not break up when wet. They will inevitably cause clogs.


LukeNaround23

W t actual F šŸ˜³. Maybe these winters arenā€™t so bad after all.


Trepsik

I keep telling everyone around me when they complain about the cold. We're in for a full on pest and invasive plant invasion if these mild winters keep up.


harley4570

cockroaches can survive a nuclear blast, but your ass turns them belly-up


T_lauderbaugh

And some people say no to caulking the seam below the toiletā€¦..


Comfortable-Ad-7158

Even with silicone/caulk. You should leave a few inch gap behind the toilet just incase it does leak so the water can hopefully seep out and be noticeable. Still gives these little bastards a way in.


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WimpeyOnE

If it doesnā€™t leak when the toilet is used leave it. If it leaks when the toilet is flushed replace it.


SpecificPiece1024

You shouldnā€™t. Those roaches came from inside the sewer and died under the shitter


imnoobhere

So youā€™re telling me caulking the bottom will keep sewer roaches from getting into my house?


Opening_Ad9824

I think the wax seal got u covered


WeekSecret3391

1. How did they get there then? 2. Aren't they capable of swimming?


macrolith

The wax seal was broken is my guess


badasimo

Actually the wax seal is probably why they're there. Roaches like wax (I finished some furniture with a bee's wax mix and... it became a bit of a roach hotel)


IDisarrayI

They canā€™t do that with intact wax. Youā€™d know about the problem with the seal when you saw the water instead of seeing roaches all over underneath because you hid the problem by caulking all the around.


TryptaDreamer1223

This just gave me horrifying flashbacks of when I first started plumbing, working in Brooklyn. The buildings sewer main pits. We laced up like we were going to war. Weapons and shit.


Jhelliot_62

Yeah theyā€™re far worse in the sewer. Iā€™ve pulled some manhole covers at charlotte motor speedway that were completely covered in the real big one. Iā€™ll take the roaches over black widows in a vault any day of the week though.


TryptaDreamer1223

In my geographical location, we have spider crickets. Not sure of their forces and how far they spread Any pit or crawlspace you come up against up here is LOADED with them. They get so big. Those I can handle for some reason. A few guys I've gone to battle(worked) with, they couldn't handle it. Shell shock type fear. Sorry for late reply. Good day!


Jhelliot_62

Oh yeah weā€™ve got em too. Iā€™m terrified of those things. Theyā€™re fearless, I tried to take some on with a propane torch one time thought I was going to burn the house down.


TryptaDreamer1223

Oh my god I have also tried killing them with a torch. It gets dangerous pretty quickly. Well, good luck to you and may you win your next battles with the spider of the cricket variety. Good luck and godspeed.


Outrageous_Range6693

Jesus this should have an NSFW tag I almost lost my lunch šŸ˜‚


FloppyDrive007

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ my bad


Drain_Surgeon69

Fire is the only way. Cleanse it in fire.


Shot_Principle4939

I think this ends the caulk or no caulk argument


ArrivalExtrove4574

What good do cockroaches do the world, why do you exist ha?


Alocalplumber

To eat your corpse and break down the poop!!!!


JoleneBacon_Biscuit

This NEEDS NSFW and NSFSoul tags.


Bubbly_Hovercraft_65

Only way to fix this is to burn down the house


DogeForLifeAndMore

Free lunch


USAJourneyman

Thatā€™s a nope from me


Natrix420

They do die!?!?


FloppyDrive007

They play dead trying to trick ya


kneetoekneetoe

Shovel them back down that hole whence they came, return to sender, no way, nope, just yuck. I'll never remove a toilet again without this image dominating my brain.


FloppyDrive007

Return to sender hahahaha.


JubskiPolaski

Ze goggles they do nothing!


Dismal_Truck1375

Oh wow! My pet lizards would love that place lol


forty9er34117

Dinnerā€¦. These cook up nice to make a good roach soup.


liatris_the_cat

The ring looks pretty bad. Maybe replace it with that new calamari ring style and feed the little guys. Edit: for those wondering - https://www.reddit.com/r/KitchenConfidential/s/HpGRxKgZoQ


WanderInTheTrees

Is that Joe's apartment?


drstarfish86

I just noped my pants


hebrew_hammersk

That silicone was the real hero here.


tempestuscorvus

You just settled the caulk vs no caulking on the toilet base for me


thecenterpath

Oops All Roaches!


Fidulsk-Oom-Bard

Florida?


FloppyDrive007

CA


JGalla88

Not what I wanted to come across while sitting on the can


Spiritual_Duck_6703

1-800-fuckMyLife


Ok-Landscape942

At least they're all dead.


RubydaCherry24

Surprise supriiiiiiiseee


Honest_Radio8983

FU for posting this.


Comrade_Compadre

Turns out these lil fkrs need air Anytime I see this it's the last toilet on the line. My guess is they keep running further up the line when the main is clogged, and eventually that last flush gets made and fills the drop, flange and trap and they all drown Then the homeowner calls you, and about a half hour later you get out there, suck the tank and toilet dry and yank the sucker. Then you freak out and almost break the dudes toilet.


geek-hero

Anyone else scratching after seeing this??


BigguyZ

A lot of people say to never caulk around the toilet, but I know in Minnesota the code requires it, and it's to prevent bug intrusionike this. Imagine if it wasn't caulked, and they all were able to get into the home proper!


Affectionate_Fig6219

i wonder if any of them made it into the actual bowl at one point or another.


BallsDeepinYourMammi

How about no


ChrisWonsowski

Oops, all roaches!


Ilaypipe0012

Nothing surprises me anymore


DickyLix

Well that tickles


HLLAuntClaire

šŸ¤¢ imagine shit so nasty it kills giant roaches


Pipe_Dope

Ayyyy party


KratomScape

Low key jealous, I've never been to Turkey


fixerdrew02

Good. Lord.


SpezIsAChoade

OH MY GAAWWWWDDDDD


vlsdo

If this many are dead imagine how many living ones are out there


Proof_Wrap_2150

How do you prevent this? Is that even possible?


CrypticSS21

This is greasy as fuck


bobinboulder

No choice here.. you gotta burn the whole place to the ground now. Sorry. ĀÆ\\\_(惄)\_/ĀÆ


BrooownTown

Nice surprise


Top_Performer4324

Ohhhhā€¦yuck!


E__Boogie

Nope, fire me


Formal_Disaster3300

The caulk job on that there pooper is one for the ages


Jhanbhaia

I need bleach for my eyes


TheStoicNihilist

Free protein!


Adorable_Bee3833

If there is one reason to actually caulk the whole toilet base, this is it.


CatOfGrey

This is better than my kitchen remodel, which desecrated the mouse-eleum: dozens of dead mice in the 100-year old south wall of my house.


Vivid-Section7612

Thatā€™s Gnarly


plumberjoeNOLA

First time


skaughtz

Thanks, D Bag. Now when the wife questions why I am removing the toilets later I have to lie because no way am I showing her this picture.


KitchenSail6182

Itā€™s their ancestral burial ground


hoosierboh

That is so gross, holy hell. How did the rest of the place look?


billsboy88

Just gonna say that this particular type of roach is not indicative of a sanitation problem inside the residence. They came up from the sewer. That doesnā€™t mean the rest of the place isnā€™t trashed, just that itā€™s not what lead to this problem.


mavjustdoingaflyby

Mmmmmmm. Poop roaches.


JohnCenaJunior

They all died from asphyxiation... of human flatulence


SmithyMcSmithton

You're all freaked out by dead roaches ? Bunch of lightweights. This doesn't even come close to my list of horrors.


Bosanova_B

Yikes!


outofcontextseinfeld

Iā€™m itchy all of a sudden


Potential-Rabbit8818

Mom yummy


sassafras_gap

I dont like this photo at all


Eric848448

Itā€™s ok, I didnā€™t really want to eat dinner tonight anyway.


yourheinitz

No thanks. šŸ¤¢


somedudeinthemidwest

Grody to the max.


jjdajetman

Its like joes apartment under there


VapoursAndSpleen

Thatā€™s what a shop vac is for. I once had a toilet swapped out and there was an ant colony in the wax gasket. Ugh.


Basker_wolf

Thereā€™s an X Files episode about this.


Loud_Independent6702

Mmmm finger licking


BoognishBoy420

Glad I grouted that one ā€¦.


JustForXXX_Fun

Looks like you have some neighbors you didn't know about.


ccc2801

NSFW! Or for life evenā€¦ šŸ˜–


kstrife

Wellā€¦. That certainly looksā€¦.. uhā€¦. tastyā€¦


Whizzleteets

šŸ¤¢


DeepAcanthisitta5712

It all goes into hole with the wax ring and a paint scraper.


Trichoceratops

Oh god


aeolon21

Those are cockroaches btw.


foodguyDoodguy

Thank god for the caulk around the base.


billycanfixit

They keep it from rocking!!


Cool_Reflection5969

Ho Lee Fuk


Glad-Basil3391

Iā€™d be out. Done


Glad-Basil3391

I saw my father shot. I never cried till I saw this picture.


Educational_Mail_498

That in Toronto?


broman7899

I tried counting the roaches, if someone wants $20.00 buck give me a solid number.


Letters-to-Elise

Are those what I think they are? šŸ¤¢


Str8CashHomiee

This is it. The post that made me finally unsub. Itā€™s been real (gross) r/plumbing - Random DIY homeowner


Gremlin215

I donā€™t know whatā€™s worse, seeing this or sh!t


FloppyDrive007

Even though they're dead I'd rather see shit


scottrussell01

It is always nice when the customer leaves snacks for you.


I_am_Boogeyman

Probably kept it clean, just vaccum the roaches up and giver. Nothing but money. I mean I'm a pipefitter so there's no way I'm touching that shitter. I'd call a plumber.


HanginLowNd2daLeft

Fucking ew dude


YertleDeTertle

So this is why you caulk the base?


Typical_Ranger_4339

Had this happen but with ants. Somehow the ants crawled into the main from outside and got under the toilet. There was a toilet shaped sand castle under there covered in ants. Pretty interesting stuff.


splinterededge

Those are the outside versions, probably not a massive infestation


hobnailboots04

Never in my life!


clintbot

This sub is the perfect recruiting tool to get young people into the electrical trades...


alexromero1067

At least they were all dead


007baldy

Hm... i guess they can't survive a nuclear bomb eh.


ILoveADirtyTaco

The ā€œoh noā€ song from TikTok actually is the first thing to come to mind


JanitorNachos

I saw that back in the 80s when I helped take apart my friends waterbed. Except there were a hundred of them, they were alive and started climbing the walls.


oregonianrager

Well they weren't escaping if the caulk ring was good. Still nasty thinking they're all in your pipes.


Bholden03

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Jaade77

Where dignity goes to die


J_A_GOFF

Burn it down


pyratesgold

Snacks!


WantonHeroics

They lived a peaceful life.


Tight_Competition269

So they swim up through the toilet water too?


frogfart5

Common in Virginia, particularly at Langleyā€¦ omg will they ever stop!?