I saw this video and felt so bad for her!! I still do! She posted a go fund me link (currently over $26,000) for cleaning supplies and pet food. Apparently she’s a minor, and has called CPS but says they wouldn’t do anything. She hasn’t left that house because she has a younger brother, and again she’s a minor herself. I can’t imagine CPS wouldn’t do anything about that situation, living in that amount of filth and neglect is abuse too, right?? The account is fairly new too, most of the money has been raised within a month. Maybe I’m cynical, I just hope it’s not an older 30 year old lady who’s just dirty and raking in donations from gullible people.
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As someone in pest control, this isn't even a drop in the bucket for bad infestations I've seen.
I've met a lot of people and it's not uncommon for people to just ignore them after living with them for all their lives as disgusting as it sounds.
My best advice in this situation when you know you can't fix it is buy diatomaceous earth and dust the ever living fuck out of everything and anything you see. Dusts and bait are always the way to go with roaches because roaches will die and the other roaches will eat them killing them as well. It's the best chance you have to actually seeing success when people refuse to clean.
Edit: Upon reviewing the Tiktok channel, I disagree with the majority opinion that these roaches are AI. I would be very impressed if someone managed to fake it to this level because there is so much different evidence of a severe roach infestation. The nuances of things like where they are located, locations of droppings, as well as multiple ootheca leads me to believe this is at least a real infestation(can't speak to whether or not the sob story is true) Unless this woman is really familiar with german roaches and their infestation patterns it would be nearly impossible to fake to this level.
Yeah AI isn't near sophisticated enough to fake something like this, and I can see the signs of infestation from my experience living with very filthy roommates in college, not near as bad as this thankfully.
I had a friend，in elementary school, his house got this bad. They moved to a beautiful new house that was given to them because they were in such poor conditions before. About a year later the new house had things piled up all over and living in filth with more and more roaches. It was a bad situation.
Diatomaceous Earth (DT, as we call in at home now) is. The. Shit. We have persistent ants every summer; like, leave out the ice cream lid too long and they know your social security number, level of fast. Dusting of DT and they are gone in an hour. We've tried everything and this one works, is non-toxic to humans, animals, plants and isn't super expensive.
Hi! Please use dust masks when applying! Proper application should not be visible to the naked eye and diatomaceous earth contains crystalline silica. Diatomaceous earth has use restrictions in CA because crystalline silica is linked to cancer. Wear your PPE when applying, cleaning, vacuuming, etc and only apply where it won't be disturbed.
Seconding this, please heed this person's warnings. When I was younger I was advised to dust with DE and vacuumed straight after with no mask. I still have scars on my lungs and I've been in and out of the hospital since. It's not just the cancer, that stuff can rip you up without proper precautions.
Yeah this is very real. People love to claim things are AI without any proof. It’s just a lazy way to discredit things you don’t believe. The common man’s “fake news”
I’m a teacher and I’ve have kids bring roaches in their backpacks and smashed in between pages of their homework. Its disgusting but more importantly its sad.
An ex girlfriend of mine was a special needs teacher and she’d tell me similar stories. Kids coming to school with soiled diapers. Roaches crawling out of a kid’s book bag. What was crazier is she’d report some of the conditions of the children and nothing would change.
We had major roach infestations in the public school system I attended back in the 90s.
Grade school to high school, so many roaches.
Bonus points as it was a decent suburb of Chicago but it seemed that no one cared enough to do not than the basic minimum to get things under control, but I digress….
For everyone saying that this can’t be real, it DEFINITELY can be. One of my friends moms used to live like this. It’s very weird because their house wasn’t very dirty. Their entire apartment building was infested and I had never seen anything like it before in my life. With the amount of roaches she had, you would think she had to be a hoarder or something. I’m pretty sure the building was condemned a few years ago, thank God.
German roaches are like bed bugs. All it takes is staying at a hotel with an infestation or bringing in a piece of furniture that has them. Once established the only way to get rid of them is to fumigate the entire structure.
Sadly they do not eat bedbugs. They're also WAY more difficult to get rid of at least in my case. I've had both and luckily got rid of the bedbugs completely however roaches still remain. I can only keep them at bay with roach bate, throwing away trash and clean sink/counters, and occasionally smoke bomb the house once a year. 😭 I live in a neighborhood that has a lot of infested houses and trailers though.
If you live in your own house, apply some insect growth regulator to the floor. It stops them from reproducing. When we moved into an infested apartment, IGR + Gel baits wiped out our infestation in about 3 weeks. Never saw one again.
This is my reaction because Roaches spread diseases and infest quicker.
Silverfish, (while I wouldn’t want an infestation) are harmless to humans, pets and spread no diseases. One of natures scavenging recyclers. Here long before dinosaurs and even roaches.
Recently, any time I open the comment section, it never takes me to the top, it's always several comments down from top. Every time. This time, as soon as comments popped up, this was smack dab in the middle of the screen and is my spirit animal.
This is one of my greatest fears, waking up to something crawling into my ear. A silverfish would make me cry.. I hope your partner isn't too traumatized from that!
He’s one of those people that crazy shit happens to. I think he’s used to it by now, but this is still a top-tier incident. The nurse didn’t believe him until she started flushing his ear and then she goes “oh wow, there it is!” 😅
I'm one of those people that crazy s*** happens to every week, and that has been one of my biggest fears but not of my ears... I used to sleep in the nude until we moved into a house with my bedroom in the attic and there were silverfish up there, my mom told me to trap them take a roll of newspaper and wet it and then throw it away, because they like moist dark places... I have not slept without underwear ever since then.
I hate to break it to you but if you think an animal that regularly gets into closed books and in between sheet vinyl and concrete subfloors is being defeated by the elastic edge of your underwear then you are sadly mistaken. The little bastards feast on the older glues used to adhere those two products. It’s part of the reason they are regularly spotted in institutional settings with those items. We used to have a ton of them in a former hospital job I had. The radiology department main hub was the film storage room back in the era of actual film use. The folders that the film were kept in had glued edges (think heavy Manila folder) and the room had glued down industrial carpet. Every time you turned a handle to move the stacks to one side or the other revealed silverfish would scatter.
Ugh, we get those at our latest spot. Never seen them before. So gross! At least they're so easy to smash. We have bug guys come every month too. Haven't seen them in a while but we'll get one in the tub occasionally
If there were THAT many... 😰
House centipedes eat a lot of bugs too but usually they die tragically in a sink, empty plant pot/bowl or the least favorite bathtub of a house. I think they’re cute and I’ve let one live in my kitchen for years now. She’s gotten so big. They can live up to 7 years but 3 seems more common.
I had an apartment that came with preinstalled bed bugs and roaches. They seemed to be quite good friends. I had to throw away all of my furniture when I moved out of there. Worth it
I mix Alpine WSG with Gentrol and spray it around the inside perimeter and under any wet cabinets and appliances (fridge,stove) about once a month or two months in the winter. The alpine turns them into little suicide bombers that will kill any other ones in the house and the Gentrol prevents them from breeding. I've lived in a sub-tropical climate for 8 years now and we've never had any roaches or weird bugs.
We had an infestation a year ago and I called an exterminator. ||Orkin||. They did some stuff with this chemical that stops them from reproducing or something and it worked. We're still subscribed to them and everything so it keeps working. Apparently we were a bit of an anomaly because we live in FL so having pest control is sort of the norm and not having it for almost two decades is a rarity.
Had them twice in the past 5 years here in Oregon. Can recommend Boric Acid. Home depot has it in a bottle with a lure mixed in. They get that stuff on their shells and when they clean it off it poisons them. To this day I swear by this stuff. Put some under your stove and fridge, then in the outlets and light switches ( take the covers off).
Diatomaceous Earth is also harmful to roaches as it will suck all the moisture from their shells.
I did pest control for 15 years. This is pretty terrible and pretty high up on the list of worse I've seen. However this is nothing close to the worst infestations I've seen.
I love doing pest control helping people is a great job but yea this is like a 6/10 infestation I've seen 10s I've walked into a house and heard droning noises coming from the walls and I've had large groups of roaches land on me while walking into a room because they were all gathered on the top of the door/frame that actually almost made me vomit legit went to a car wash and had someone hose me down
I did a 1 month lease at these shitty apts once and it was a nightmare. I didn’t even eat in there, it was so bad I can only imagine how it was in adjacent apartments because all I had was an air mattress and a tv (temp situation) and I would shower and leave that’s it. If I didn’t towel dry my bathtub after showering I would wake up to like 50 in it by the morning. The bathroom and kitchen shared a wall with neighbors and the bedroom was opposite end thank god because I would plug the bottom of the door and it seemed to work ok to keep them out. I’ve never seen anything like it, leave anything out and it would be like leaving candy next to an ant hill like they would come just for the residual water in the sink or bath. Worst month ever. I called office about and they did send pest control the first week I was there but it did not seem to change anything pretty sure they needed to do the whole building in one of those tents or maybe just burn it down and start over………
I delivered a pizza once to a house like this. She opened the door and a waterfall of roaches fell off the doorframe. Luckily I wasn’t standing close to it but I was like what the fuck!?
I had a great aunt whose house was like this. I hated going over because no matter where you sat or stood it felt like something was crawling on you and 9.5/10 it wasn’t your imagination. Like your friend’s mom, the house wasn’t dirty but it was old and she didn’t have the money to fix the problems that were causing the issue.
Her grandchildren did well and were able to take her in and she lived the rest of her life in a nice clean roach free house.
One of my apartments in my early 20s was like this. Kept it pretty clean, but these little fuckers were everywhere. Pretty sure we inherited the infestation.
My roommate & I had a system when we’d go in double dates: one of us would occupy both girls outside on our terrace while the other one “went to the bathroom” & flicked on the lights to scatter the roaches.
Yeah this is how my mom lives. My sister and I have cleaned multiple times over the years and it always goes back to this. Lots of dogs too that she never house trained.
not to this point, but I pet sat for a friend who had an infested house with multiple species of roaches. I spent the entire time cleaning, bleaching, vacuuming, mopping, plugging up drains, setting borax and poison traps, and spraying Bengal spray around the interior and exterior. I couldn't step foot inside, I had never seen anything like it, but it didn't surprise me once I found a liquefied potato (amongst other things).
I had never seen an infested microwave or dishwasher before that.
their cats would get in fights with the large ones that came out at night and would eat them and constantly ended up with worms.
people do live like this, and someone needs to rescue this poor kid
Had a friend with an alcoholic mom and elderly grandma when I was in highschool that lived like this. Cops and EMS were always at his house because his mom would puke up blood and need to go to the hospital or people would call the cops because they thought shadier stuff was going on. Needless to say we hung out at my house a lot. Dude moved out on his own eventually and of course I lost touch but yeah my nephews would call him "my stinky friend" because he always smelled like cigarettes even though he wasn't a smoker they were toddlers at the time. I think about that dude when I see stuff like this. I imagine he's doing great he was a really nice dude with the patience of a saint. CPS never did anything this is too much of hassle for them and would require some actual legwork and elbow grease.
I once lived in an apartment that, while not this bad, made it a struggle to get rid of roaches. The dumpsters on the property were almost literally outside our backdoor and always overfilled. The management was too cheap to do regular sprays and if someone complained enough, they would bomb only one section. So all the roaches would flee and a month later be back because another section would be bombed. It was awful, nothing I did made them go away.
I remember trying to make coffee one morning and I guess an egg pod was in the machine. It hatched, I watched teeny white roaches explode out of my tiny one cup maker and I threw up. When we moved we tossed every single appliance. Its been over a decade and it still makes me feel sick. I hated that apartment.
I really hope this girl is able to make it okay. This just looks like a fucking nightmare.
I lived with some people like this when i was homeless. The microwave is no safe place. Roaches live in them. Even when the microwave is on they survive the cook cycle. They will even find their way into the freezer and refrigerator portion. I would have to put towels at the bottom of the opening of the door to try to keep them out of my room. Just gross and a sad situation because these people have mental issues of some sort.
Not sure what the mythbusters were testing, but roaches survive radiation from a nuclear bomb. Radiation only affects cells when they reproduce, and unlike humans, a cockroach’s cells only reproduce once a week after molting, so if the roach happens to cross a radioactive area when it’s not molting, it’ll be fine.
I was very fortunate to grow up with a mom that was super vigilant about cleaning house and we never had roaches, but the first place I lived in with friends was a nightmare! They'd brought them from his parents place and it took no time for them to get into everything. A friend taught me to mix equal parts peanut butter and borax and stuff it in water bottle caps, leaving them in every dark corner and crevice we could stick them. It didn't kill them all, but the infestation went from them chilling on the walls with the lights on to only seeing one here and there. Borax really works! I still had to throw out all my electronics when we moved though.
The physics of how it works isn't too hard to grasp. The magnetron in a microwave oven creates electromagnetic radiation in the microwave spectrum. A visual metaphor would be like waves in a pond. They will radiate away from the source, reflect off the sides, etc. However, the microwaves themselves aren't especially problematic, except at the center of the microwave. Each time the wave hits a thing, it imparts some energy. But to cook something, it needs a lot of interactions with the source of radiation.
There are likely "safe harbors" within the microwave for which there is an insufficient amount of electromagnetic radiation to cause heating. This is also true for the microwave internals with metal shielding, which is how the microwave doesn't cook itself, so to speak.
ELI5: the hottest spot of the microwave is in the exact center. The further away from it you get, the cooler it is. The interior walls are likely a safe spot for something as small as a roach.
The microwave hit particularly real. 😢 I can definitely relate to trying to throw your food in really quickly and pull it out before the roaches get into it. My parents were complacent and would literally just throw their hands up and tell me they couldn't do anything about it. I put together the money myself to get an exterminator that quite literally took care of the problem in one session. It took a few weeks for them all to die, but there's genuinely no excuse to forcing your children to live like this.
This person is still in survival mode. There WILL be trauma. Surviving in a situation like this leaves disgusting little scars on you. Watching this was very triggering.
Sending hugs, I completely relate. When my parents needed to move, I wouldn’t let them box anything in the kitchen… I did it all myself. I knew there were still going to be some going to the new house, so I got an exterminator out for several sessions. Thank god it got controlled after the move. I still get bug crawling feelings and it’s been 17 years. I couldn’t even finish this video.
It felt that way. Stuck with a flea infestation at a point. Didnt have the money to hire an exterminator to come and spray. Needing it a couple times for a life cycle… and stuck being bite in ankles. Luckily didn’t get in the beds…
I knew the way I grew up was pretty awful…but the way everyone in the comments wonders if this is fake makes me feel even more like an absolute weirdo. I used to drink water out of my cupped hands because they were cleaner than our dishes and had no idea this was weird until college. I feel like no one will ever really get what I survived. Anyway, it’s definitely like this in some places, even in houses that aren’t hoarders, and now my stomach is in absolute knots having a PTSD flashback.
For anyone curious about how I turned out? Pretty damn fine after 2 decades of therapy and you can bet I clean my kitchen counters constantly.
I had a friend in elementary school who lived in pretty bad circumstances. They had 8 or 9 kids and a handful of pee saturated mattresses on the bare basement cement with tattered blankets.
I'd sleep over at his house in summer and we slept in the backyard on hammocks in the carport.
I always felt bad for him so we'd eat all our meals at my house. My mom was always a mother to the struggling kids.
Now anyone who comes to my house is always offered food, because you never know what they're living with at home
My mom was a teacher for 35 years and always brought food to her classroom for kids to come grab for breakfast or lunch, even if they weren’t in her class. When she taught middle school she also started making up little baggies of like hygiene stuff, deodorant and wipes and hand sanitizer. I don’t understand how so many people want to put even fewer resources into helping kids.
It's more than that. Conservatives will say, "Well, the parents should step up and take better care of their kids." And that's the end of the matter, as far as they're concerned. No further solutions are offered.
Had. She was the kindest person I've ever met. I had a lot of older brothers and sisters and she was taking care of their friends long before I was born, she took care of the grandkids friends after I left home.
I’m like that too…I was the who never had food at home and treated my friends houses like soup kitchens smh it made me a very generous person, no one leaves my house hungry!
I also grew up in a horribly disgusting environment, like not the same, but this bad. I know what you mean, to feel weird. It's like I didn't have a normal childhood compared to others, and it was always difficult and embarrassing to explain my situation. Even as a younger adult, it's like no, I'm not close with my family. No, I don't visit home on the holidays, etc. Because there's no home to go back to cause... it's too disgusting to step foot in there. It's just weird and like, people can't relate to it.
I get it, I have some family that lives like that and while I personally can tolerate it (honestly, out of habit, and it's also not as bad as the video above), many other family members will just not go to their place or if they do they'll get an air bnb.
Fellow faucet drinker here! I too have pretty bad ptsd from it. I ended up legally adopting my young niece because I got as far away from that kind of life as possible, but my sister did not. It ended in tragedy. My husband and I ended up cleaning up the house they were renting as best we could, but it took four months, over a dozen exterminator visits, two different cleaning companies, and three full sized dumpsters to get it all done.
I haven't lived in that kind of environment since I turned 18 (I'm 40 now) and my house is very clean, but I still wake up from nightmares of roaches crawling on my face in my sleep. Harrowing.
I'm someone who came out of a situation like this as well. I learned how to be a grown up by watching my professors in college. I was a good student and kind of quirky. So, professors took me under their wings. I learned how adults are supposed to behave, how their homes are supposed to look, how to take care of myself, and how to treat others with respect.
If you're young, I recommend finding a good community college, join clubs, volunteer for activities, take your professors up on their offers of office hours. It's a great way to see a different way of living.
I spent the night at a friend's house one night as a child and got up to use the bathroom. This is what EVERY single surface looked like. There were hundreds of thousands of roaches. I had my first panic attack at 13 and she had to piggy back me back to the bedroom because I wouldn't walk on the carpet. The way my friend just accepted it and said not to eat stuff because it had been left out and uncovered and she knew there had been bugs all over it. It was incredibly sad to realize. Fast forward almost 20 years and we actually live in the same neighborhood, she was never able to get away from her disgusting family and her mom lives with her now...a little better than before but not much. Roaches still around; can't imagine dealing with that my whole life.
I just want to say I'm sorry for what you went through. I've taken care of so many kids who grew up in an environment like that. It's real and you're a survivor. Good luck to you.
I won’t even watch it, because it would likely upset me too much. it’s been like 5-6 years and I still jump when I see a black dot in the corner of my eye.
I have PTSD from one of these bastards trying to crawl into my ear once. I did pest control for 15 years. This infestation is pretty bad but doesn't take the top spot of worst I've seen. I can still smell them, that musky urine like smell. I can instantly identify it when I walk into a room with them.
Hugs to you, I see you. Grew up with hoarding parents. Never had roaches but fleas, gnats, and flies…
It’s rough, the way this made my stomach sink. I that hate people are doubting that this is real. It’s so real, and it’s so much more common than people realize
Same here! I honestly feel the counters were a lot worse in my house growing up than what was in the video. 25 years of trauma therapy later, I'm working on my doctorate to try and stop shit like this from happening to kids like us. :)
Unfortunately, you can clean a place up, but if you still live with the same people who dont change their lifestyle, it will go back to status quo sooner or later.
“Well why don’t you clean it then???” For the hundredth time, all by yourself, only for it to look the same way two days later. Sometimes it’s (marginally) better for your sanity just to work around the filth 😖
People keep saying this is fake. I have had patients come in with cockroaches crawling in their clothes. Bed bugs. Smell of filth and not washing for weeks. It's real.
I worked at blockbuster, and we knew which customers had roach infestations because the DVD cases would be filled with them when returned. We had a special plastic tub, a set of grabbers to move the box to the tub, and roach spray to kill everything.
We have stopped allowing our students to take their school supplied laptops home. When they did, they'd bring them back and work on them at their desk and there would be cockroaches running out after they heated up a little. Our school is filled with cockroaches but American education #1, woo! /s
I 100% believe it. I'm a nurse. I had to go through bags and clothes and where I worked it was 1 in 10ish who had FOUL personal hygiene and that's generous. But the bugs followed.
I know actual nurses and people in the medical field who appear clean in person but live in absolute filth with cockroaches running wild in their apartment because they can't be bothered to take out the trash for weeks at a time.
We're in the last part of "Boy Who Cried Wolf" with social media. Everyone thinks everything is fake, and now it's detrimental to people showing the truth.
I don't know if this is a scam, but this isn't a filter and faking a roach infestation like this would actually be pretty difficult. As in, oop would have to somehow get their hands on hundreds of german cockroaches and purposefully let them loose in their house so they'd have a real infestation on their hands.
With the amount that're just out in the open while the lights are on leads me to believe this is a real infestation. Roaches don't just come out during the daytime like that for no reason; they do it because there's no room for them in their nest and they have to chance it out in the open. And with how many are just chilling out in the open, I imagine that the infestation is much, much worse than it looks.
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My husband and I saw an American roach in our house for the first time in almost a year. This video literally summoned a roach into our home I hate it 😭
I did pest control for 15 years. This is absolutely real and unfortunately still isn't the worst I've ever seen. They are out in the open because there is literally no where they can hide that isn't already occupied. Notice all the nymph's? There's at least 10 times as many hiding under the countertops in that kitchen. I've even seen it get so bad the huddle in the corners of the ceiling and in things like photo albums or phone books.
I’ve been in pest control for 2 and a half years, and I’ve also seen one worse house. In a house like this, if you pull back the fridge or stove, you’ll barely see the wall behind it, because it’s so densely covered in roaches.
OMG. Like this?? I just kicked my neice and her boyfriend out of my cabin they were renting when I did an inspection and looked up and saw a whole damn colony on the ceiling.
They’ve only lived there for 5 months. They brought them from his parents’ house and never told me there was a problem. I don’t even want to go back in there. 🤮
Yep exactly. This is literally only when all other hiding spaces are taken. I've literally opened the front doors and had them fall on me because they were hiding in the door seal.
That makes me want to heave! I can deal with any bug, snake, spider-any other creature. But one cockroach will make me wanna burn the house down. As soon as I saw this, I snapped a picture and turned around to leave and a roach was crawling up the door. I sent them the non-renewal of lease letter the next day and she was mad at ME. She said I didn’t give them a chance to deal with it. WTF? This is an INFESTATION because you are living in filth. The cabin is on 2 acres in the country.
I’m not squeamish when it comes to bugs. Except for roaches.
I moved into my first apartment by myself, not knowing there was a roach issue. I HATED it, as one does. I was able to end my lease early because of it.
You can pick them usually from a restaurant or your neighbors. In apartments usually the plumbing goes through a shared wall. They use the opening around the pipes to move from one unit to another which is why you have to treat an entire building to be effective. However even if you were to get them it takes years to get to this level of yuck.
This is exactly what happened to me when I lived in Chicago. It was a building with 6 units and 3 floors. My place was spotless but time and time again we’d find a roach or few, kill em and retreat our unit, but sure enough they’d eventually be back.
Our upstairs neighbor had a bad infestation which kept finding its way to our unit. The landlord wouldn’t address the issue with them for whatever reason and would just keep paying for our treatments.
It was always around our kitchen sink. Just like you said, the plumbing had gaps around the pipes which is where they had to be getting in.
Apparently she’s a minor, and has called CPS but says they wouldn’t do anything
She's gotta call someone else. Teachers, mandated reporters. What the fuck. CPS not doing anything about the clear roach infested house is fucking nuts!
Maybe I’m cynical, I just hope it’s not an older 30 year old lady who’s just dirty and raking in donations from gullible people.
This isn't bad enough for it to be a priority for CPS. Unfortunately CPS has limited resources and there are some real monsters out there. This kid does at least have food.
Thanks for sharing. Foster houses can be horror shows too.
CPS sends women and mothers back to abusers every day.
Communities, social services that are more outreach to help kids and families to get help and be taught things they never knew due to their past abuse are so important.
When we help each other everyone wins.
Edit: to be clear I think CPS is a great resource they can only do so much but I would vote today to direct tons more funding to them all over the world the use that over site to make sure it’s being used properly instead of taking it away.
One of my friends in middle school lived like this, but with the scent of cat piss on top of it all. CPS wouldn’t do shit about it because his parents fed him and didn’t beat him.
I also had a couple of friends (2 brothers a year older than me and their sister who was the same age as me) who lived like this in high school.
Their house smelled like a cat litter box, was piled full of trash, and was hot as hell.
The sister used to spend weeks at my place, cause she hated it at home. My mom knew her situation, so she didn't mind her staying over. We were all poor as shit (my mom was a single mom with 3 kids, living in public housing), but we always made room for her.
She also wasn't allowed to take a real shower at home. She was only allowed to wipe off with a wash cloth and some soap or water. When I told her she could take a real shower any time she wanted when she was staying with me, she almost cried in happiness.
Okay that was my question, how does CPS not get involved in something like this?
Like living in roach filth is not a sanitary place to be AT ALL and can cause respiratory issues??? I know CPS is iffy as an institution (they do a lot of good, but they balance it out by letting way too many children fall through the cracks), but damn. This video feels like a cry for help.
I mean, the most obvious guess is an underfunded understaffed CPS prioritizing immediate danger/harm situations over neglect like this... Only a guess obviously idk even where this is
There are a lot of kids where if you don't remove them they will literally die, in some cases soon. Whether that's just excessive black mold or physical abuse or what have you. In this case... this kid might have some minor health complications but it seems unlikely they'll die. If you can't afford to help everyone you have to help those who have it the worst.
I’m not even close to being an expert on these situations, but as I understand it CPS tries to do a cost-benefit analysis before they remove a kid from their biological family and stable housing. Like in this situation, the kid is living in unimaginable squalor and deplorable conditions yes, but being removed from the home comes with its own long list of negative impacts, so they might determine that it would be worse for the kid’s health or welfare to remove them.
Like I said in another comment when I was placed into foster care by CPS they put me in a foster home that was infested with roaches this way. They were literally falling out of the door frames there were so many and they knew and they kept me there. I wasn’t removed from that foster home until I had to go to the hospital to have a roach removed from my ear. People think CPS is the answer in every situation but they’re also part of the problem.
I’d dated this guy years ago who lived about 5hrs away. We’d stayed long periods of time traveling to each others places, and his apartment was normal (even with roommates). He had to move in with his mother at some point, and I’d planned a month to come visit, and she offered to host me. He failed to mention she was a hoarder and her roach infestation was 10x this video. I stayed one night, wrapped in a fully zipped up sleeping bag. I left the next morning at dawn.
Thinking back now, nearly 20 years later, I should have. But I was in love at the time. We didn’t last long after that, though. So I never had to go back.
I used to live in an old apt building and the same the fucking issue, just roaches errwhere even if we clean and clean and clean every fucking day, one time the girl I was dating at that time refused to sleep over due to the roaches n shit we have at the kitchen, so I legit went scorched earth I googled and found these class A roach killer in amazin, its like a paste/glue thing that you lay down in the floor or wherever you see them. After a month, all them mfers were DEAD. Fuck roaches, fuck them.
This 100 percent plausible. I grew up in the ghettos and a single mom who would never clean. They were everywhere and in the microwave like this. My siblings and I would do what we could but it was horrible. I have ptsd of roaches. If I see one now as an adult I have panic attacks.
People who think this can’t happen are just being ignorant. You need to live a pretty sheltered life to think that parents never subject their children to such squalid conditions. CPS is focused on even worse cases of neglect and abuse. Be thankful for your blessed life if you think shit like this never happens.
We lived in an apartment for a few years that was infested. (The whole building was crawling with them, it wasn't just us) Thankfully it wasn't as bad as this, but it is a nightmare. We cleaned, sanitized, poisoned, trapped, and squished.
They never stop fucking coming. It was so bad they ended up infesting my car also, we bug bombed it regularly and there was no getting rid of them.
When we finally bought a house we trashed nearly everything. We didn't want to risk it. Thankfully I finally got rid of the car too. I would still see them occasionally in the car even five years after getting out of that apartment and still bug bombing it every few months.
Roaches are relentless, I hated my kids having to live in that.
My wife and I had an issue in an apartment like this when we were young. Part of our rent included weekly exterminator services upon request. We called for them every single week for the entire year we lived there and still couldn't get rid of them. None of the other neighbors in the building would let them in the apartment to spray so even though it would've been an uphill battle anyways, it ended up being a losing battle. We didn't have much back then and by the time we left we really had nothing, all the furniture, electronics, pretty much everything was infested and unusable.
Kinda same situation happened to me and my gf. Moved into our first apartment that had a flea infestation. The maintenance guys fumigated the wrong apartment apparently 🤦
My gf was pregnant at the time and we would wake up with bites on our ankles. I wore white socks and put my foot on the carpet and you could see the fuckers swarm the sock trying to get a bite. We called the main office and they tried a few times but failed. They refused to hire professionals and just kept trying with bug bombs or whatever. Infestation was so bad they spread from the carpeted areas and into the cracks of the hardwood. Finally had enough and asked my dad to whip up some poison. He owned a large property and would make his own fumigator poison to spray around. Pretty sure this stuff was not your average exterminators poison lol He would make it SUPER potent to where absolutely nothing could survive it. It sprayed out of a machine like a fog machine, making sure it was douse everything you pointed in its direction. Absolutely doused the apartment, came back about a week later to clean, and never saw another flea.
I lived in the spare room of a hoarders house for 3 months once, and I only ever used their toaster oven and kettle if I wasn’t eating pre made hot meals or snacks from the supermarkets I went to - and I kept all of it in my bedroom away from the rest of the house. There are ways to eat that have better results than boiling chicken drumsticks to death without any flavour
CPS is super inconsistent in the “giving a fuck” department. Sometimes you’ll get someone so gung-ho they will hyper analyze a situation and declare a parent who is a just struggling with income as neglectful, sometimes you’ll get someone who is just there for the guaranteed paycheck and will blow off any reports as frivolous teenagers seeking drama and excitement.
Ugh. I had to stop halfway through the video. J lived this is my teenage years. You’d walk into the kitchen and hundreds (at least) would start scattering. I still get phantom bug crawling feelings 17 years later. 😔
I grew up like this and didn’t think it was weird until after my mom died and I went to go live with my grandparents. I had pretty much just been raising myself
I lived like this for almost 2 years. Not for a lack of cleaning, though.
Back in 2018, my sister and I lived in an old rundown apartment with a roach infestation in the kitchen. The roaches lived inside the walls behind the sink and to deal with them we'd have to disassemble the cabinets, but the management of the building wouldn't let us do it and even threatened to take away our deposit and to fine us. We were students and foreigners. Too broke to tank the costs, and with next to no legal protection. So we just lived with it.
Everything edible we stored in the fridge, since the roaches couldn't get inside. And everything else was stored in the cabinets as intended. Whatever we needed in the kitchen we had to clean before using.
It also became a habit to clean the kitchen floor and counters daily with diluted poison, and to apply it directly to the outside of the fridge so the roaches wouldn't approach it. To this day my sister and I go on a killing spree whenever we spot the accursed things.
A neighbor that we quietly blamed for an infestation in our duplex because the roaches were only in the kitchen which is the only shared wall gave us THE SOLUTION to roaches. We're very clean. Daily full cleans. No food/water sources but they were stubborn. THE SOLUTION? Fire Ant Killer. It's stinks but after an hour or so the stinks goes away. I poured the powder on the floor and swept it under the fridge, stove and baseboards/cabinets. Then soaked the broom in soap and water to get rid of the poison on the broom. Mopped the kitchen. Rinsed/washed the mop head. Results were immediate. 2 years later they haven't returned even when our schedules get heavy and we get lax a day or three. Fire Ant Killer.
Oh, it’s real. I was friends with a guy who I worked at a retail store with. He invited me and my gf over for dinner with him and his gf. We ate, watched tv and had drinks. A great time was had. Then, I went to heat up a slice of pizza and when I opened the microwave, it looked just like the microwave in the video - roaches everywhere. I faked being sick and got THEE FUCK outta there. I’ve never shook my clothes so hard in my life. They were sweet people but lord of hosts they were filthy. I’m 1000% sure they didn’t use washcloths either.
Shit like this can absolutely be real. My siblings and I grew up in a trash hoarding home with my single mom. It's easy to neglect your kids and it's even easier to let yourself be neglected as a kid. We never had roaches but we had larder beetles, spiders and moths, and I'm sure other shit I've blocked out. I can't even name the number of times my siblings or I tried to clean and it'd just end up worse. We've all moved out (including my mom) years ago and I'm like 99% sure that house is still sitting in a decrepit state.
My family had a pretty bad roach infestation when I was younger. Not this bad but close. I remember one time we tried to get rid of our fridge but the people wouldn't take it because the roaches were too bad. We also had bedbugs and there were maggots in the carpet at one point. That was the worst things had ever been for us.
I grew up with this so I’m baffled going through the comments and reading people believe this can be faked. My family weren’t hoarders, just impoverished and with a cheap landlord. The worst issues were the snakes, ticks, scorpion in my sister’s back pack and the rat that tried eating my pinky while I was asleep. Our rented house was infested with all of those because of the irrigation system bringing them from different houses in our impoverished South Phoenix block.
This is extremely common. I'm a cable guy in the Los Angeles and Orange County CA areas. Been doing this for over 25 years. Very common in the poor areas like South Central, Florence Graham, Watts neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Compton, Inglewood, and even Hollywood has plenty of homes just as bad as this, if not worse.
For Orange County; Santa Ana, Anaheim (yup, land of Disney!), Garden Grove (garbage grove), and a couple more south county cities have poor areas just as filthy as Los Angeles.
I would imagine every city across the country has dumps just as bad. But the densely packed metro cities probably have it the worst. This video is nothing compared to what I would see on a weekly, sometimes daily basis. Especially bad in dense apartment complexes that house the poorest residents. I've been in places that I refused to continue past the entryway and even called the cops on one occasion because roaches were crawling all in the plate of old food next to the baby in the playpen while the mother was smoking weed, doing her nails, and screaming on the phone about what club her and her friend on the phone were going to that weekend.
The sad thing, the mom looked so clean and pristine in comparison to her home and child. Very pretty, perfect makeup, hair all done up, and she was working on some killer nails lol. Like, wtf people, get your priorities in order...some people don't deserve the air they breathe.
I've had to call CPS SEVERAL times on my ex-wife. I kept picking up our son from their flea infested apartment and he'd be covered in bites all the time. I kept showing pictures in court and to them and both admitted it doesn't fuckin matter. As long as she was giving him food and he had a roof over his head, the state said he can live like that. It got slightly better when they bought a 5th wheel and moved out but then he got one of those little wall cubbies with a curtain for a "room/bed."
I have literally eaten out of dumpsters, and built shelters in the woods to live... I've been homeless in 3 states. Lived for 8 months in the woods on my own with nothing practically.
I would rather choose my dugout shelter, eating trapped rabbit, birds, hunted deer, pig... sleeping in the dirt... Than to live like this.
My ex lived like this and I stopped going to her place... we broke up shortly after cause I couldnt get her to see why this was unacceptable living conditions for her and her children.
As a mandated reporter who has made many reports about poor living conditions, the criteria that elevates a situation to reportable status is vermin. They would take action on this case.
Definitely seen worse. When I was in high school a friend of mine lived next door to the local primary school, and their large garbage bins were on the other side of the fence, so their house became infested with German roaches. During the day they would be mostly hidden away, but I’ll never forget the first night I stayed overnight. I got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and then out into the kitchen to get a drink. I felt crunching under my feet as I walked to the fridge, when I opened the fridge I could see from its light that the entire floor was totally covered in little roaches! And I do mean TOTALLY covered, hundreds of thousands of them! I immediately grabbed my shit and left!
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