Get Your Strategy On
Check out what happens when Emily and I find a cockroach in our garage. The outcome may surprise you.
Obviously, we were unsuccessful in our initial attempt to kill this cockroach. I bet we would have had better success if we would have read Killing Cockroaches first.
Tony Morgan is a pastor and the Chief Strategic Officer at NewSpring Church where he develops creative solutions for communications, technology and NewSpring Ministries--the church's ministry that equips other church leaders.
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Alan Stoddard
July 25th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Good stuff, BUT everyone knows to kill a cock roach you use a shoe. And yes, you clean up the mess. A slipper may be better for killing them.
Adam Gregory
July 25th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
And this is supposed to give us confidence in your subject expertise? I dunno if faced with the choice between “Pop goes the Church” and “Killing Cockroaches” after seeing that I might have to go with “POP”.
Speaking of which any updates on the availability date?
Keith Tackel
July 25th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
After moving from NJ to the Charlotte area I have learned to spray around the outside foundation every few weeks and inside about every month or so, better safe than buggy.
Although it may be even more of a problem over that SC line. :)
Jason
July 25th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Tony, I recommend the Benilli Super Black Eagle II it is the best autoloading shotgun in the world, and it works great for killing palmetto bugs a.k.a flying cockroaches. It will shoot a 2 3/4, 3 and 3 1/2 inch shell with ease, it comes with a varity of choke tubes for different distances down range. Of course I don’t recommend discharging any firearm indoors but you can always get your wife to “shoo” it out into the yard and then open fire, bam, no more roach.
Milan Ford
July 25th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Add some psycho background music to that video…
…and you’re sure to have a classic on your hands.
Good stuff. Can’t wait for the book.
Kirk Longhofer
July 25th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
I just want to know about that big giant crack rock that’s right beside the bug!
Jeff Selph
July 25th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Nothing could have killed that beast. When I first moved to FL, we stayed a nice oceanside hotel. There was a palmetto bug (as the lady at the counter told me when I called to complain about the cockroach). I stomped down on that thing as hard as I could and stood there for a few seconds, twisting my foot back and forth. I tentatively picked up my foot, worried about the mess on my Sambas…and it ran away. I screamed like a girl!
Julie Smies
July 25th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I give Emily points for getting that close. After a trip to Savannah on our honeymoon, I’ve stayed far enough north to avoid those hideous creatures!
paul
July 26th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Dude,
In the south, it’s commonly accepted that to kill a cockroach you must STEP on it! The fact that Emily was barefooted would have potentially made her local legend material had she stepped on that monster!
OR her man could take the chivalrous route, put the camera down and stepped on it himself. Just a thought… ;-)
Jodi
July 26th, 2008 at 9:34 am
you guys are too, too funny!
Mitchell
July 27th, 2008 at 1:40 am
Had he been to the fridge? BTW I was chased by a German Shepherd at a golf course the other day. If I ever write a book, I’m going to call it “In some rough with a German Shepherd on a perfectly sunny day.”
Looking forward to your book.
Albert Einstein
July 27th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
If the speed of the energy displaced by the cockroach while running is equal to the squared of its mass and chocolate, id’s suggest a rolled newspaper for killing a cockroach.
Hal Hunter
July 29th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
It’s not fully grown until some hangs out on each side of the work boot you squash him with. And, please believe me, Florida palmetto bugs are really that big. That puny little critter you showed would not be worth measuring for Boone & Crockett.