Palmetto bugging out

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Here in Florida we have these big ugly bugs called Palmetto bugs. When it rains a lot (like yesterday) it seems to drive them indoors. These bugs are related to the cockroach (think roach on steroids to make itbigger and acid to make it crazy and darn near unstoppable) though it doesn't matter how clean you keep your house they are going to be there. Well this morning I go into the bathroom minding my own business and look up and there is palmetto on the cieling by the door........ I am trapped with my pants down!!! Mind you I am terrified of these suckers. The memory of my first encounter with one (I am from AR we don't have these things there) leaves me in a cold sweat. I was here in FL visiting my mom (in this very house I now live in) and there was one out in the sunroom so mom says get the broom and whack it, I must not have heard the smirk in her voice as she said it cause I grabbed the broom like a good daughter prepared to whack the sucker. I go out there and give it a good whack and the darn bug looks at me and laughs!! Then he gives chase, I end up on the chair whimpering as my mom is laughing her butt off at me. Palmettos are built like a tank with a hard outer shell. You can't whack it with a broom and expect it to do anything but laugh at you and chase you. Well I managed to get out of the bathroom with no incident (if it had jumped me I would have died). Did I mention that palmettos are aggressive? They will chase you unprovoked. I went to the kitchen and grabbed the bug spray and came back to wage war. The bug spray is to stun it and knock it down off the cieling so I can smash it with something hard. The bug spray will stun the bug and if you use enough it might even kill it but don't be fooled by it laying belly up.....in a few hours it can revive itself and live