'Gokiburi': the third way

Here are three wildly different approaches to the recurring summer problem of cockroaches in the home.

First, from Bill, who writes in favor of extermination: "Don't know if this trick works, but my parents told me about it years ago and they learned it from an old exterminator.

"Sprinkle ground glass powder along the edge of the room where the roaches run. The roaches get it on their feet and then lick it off. I guess the glass powder grinds up their insides."