shouldve called 911 instead

While everyone else is laughing, just realise you did the right thing, OP. Cockroaches are no laughing matter. Those sturdy bastards will be around; devouring stale sweets and power cables long after the rest of humanity destroys itself in a nuclear war.

Hey, it was just a knee-jerk reaction. I might have done the same thing (if I did't step on and kill it). I HATE BUGS!

I would understand why you'd panic like that. Roaches can smell fear.

man, I would HATE to work or live somewhere that a building owner can fine his tenants based upon subjective interpretation of what constitutes an emergency worthy of disturbing the Police Academy drop-out in the security office!

I like how OP puts real in quotes, as if to mock the person who told her that a roach in an elevator isnt an emergency. Well its not an emergency. Get over it and kill that damn thing.

you are really dumb, for real

How is your first impulse to press the panic button instead of squishing it...?

YDI for not shimmying through the ceiling panel and scaling the elevator shaft to safety.

i went to a hotel and the panic button didnt do anything except ring a bell... it wasnt ghetto either it was a hilton. but then employees starting patroling the elevators because we wouldnt stop pressing it xD