This has never happened to me.
But, once back in the bad old days of the 1970s in Dirty Old NYC I bought an electrical alarm clock.
Brought it home, plugged it in, the clock ran, all was well.
As soon as the alarm clock went off the next day, and I hit the snooze button, like a million roaches ran out of it.
It was like a freaking horror movie.
I have other roach horror stories, but I will save them for future threads.
Yes, I threw the clock away immediately.
Ah, roaches. Before getting married I rented an upstairs room from a long time missionary to Africa. I noticed in the little kitchen I had that there were some bugs that I thought must be roaches so I mentioned it to her. One night I woke up with one crawling up my leg.
I was so freaked out about it that I went downstairs to call my boyfriend and when I turned on the light in her kitchen hundreds scattered.
I’ve moved into a couple of apartments that had them but I love the battle and always win. Always take garbage out at night, put all boxed or grain goods in the fridge, and never leave dirty dishes in the sink overnight. Love the big power spray bug killer. Wish I had had that back in the day.
In Missouri I used to have 5” slugs come up from the crawlspace under the water heater. Nice patterns. I just threw them back under the house.