here's some real cockroach stories that'll make you hide under the covers

when I was stationed in cuba we had cockroaches as big as 6 to 8 inches long and around 4 inches wide. I was in charge of the galley at night and my civilian assistant used to turn the light off come back in 1/2 hour and spray them in the long stainless thing you put the dishes on spray them into the drain and turn the disposal on, and hear that load crackling. when I was transferred to an aircraft carrier they were about half that size only problem is they were all over you when you slept, and with nothing on my chest I can't describe how freaked out I was the first time I woke up with some walking on my chest.