The unironic best trap ever is two tall cans (think monster or whiteclaw or sometjing) skewered on a wire or rod over a bucket. Smear peanut butter on it and that bucket will have literally every rat and mouse in a 500 meter radius.
Tom and Jerry type shit
Imagine if a cat or dog or child messes with it. Or if somebody knocks it over. One of the advantages of spring or glue traps is they don’t pose a significant danger to creatures not targetted.
Here we’re taking a device used to kill humans and using them in a trap.
Note; I can’t get the formatting right. I can see why images of text are so popular.
America is a Gun
Brian Bilston
England is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie. Greece, a short, squat olive tree. America is a gun.
Brazil is football on the sand. Argentina, Maradona’s hand. Germany, an oompah band. America is a gun.
Holland is a wooden shoe. Hungary, a goulash stew. Australia, a kangaroo. America is a gun.
Japan is a thermal spring. Scotland is a highland fling. Oh, better to be anything than America as a gun.
Two spaces at the end of a line for a break without a new paragraph. I’ve heard also that a backslash works instead on Lemmy, but haven’t checked.
FWIW, in case you don’t know, Lemmy uses Markdown. IMHO it’s pretty good at formatting and there are lots of guides for it online; just looking up “how to to x in markdown” is likely to get you plenty of results.
In case you want to see the results of particular texts in real-time, there are also editors that will immediately show you what will be the outcome of what you write. These are available locally on your system, but also online:
They will never take notes the same way again. You know it’s bad when you use MD with pencil.
When I was a kid, before laptops were commonly accessible, I had a device … I can’t remember what it was called, I keep thinking “Altavista,” but I know that was a search engine, not a device. I do recall that it was blue.
Anyway, the idea was, you’d type into it and it would store what you typed locally. Later, you’d plug it into a computer’s PS/2 port it would reproduce what you had typed by imitating a keyboard and literally typing out what was in its memory. My mom teased me because she’d sometimes review what I had put in and encounter
.This device was how I discovered Y-connectors, which later resulted in me having a keyboard on my desk and a keyboard in a keyboard tray with one hand on each.
AlphaSmart 2000?
Was it the AlphaSmart 3000?
I would guess 2000, since blue.
Fuck, I hated those things. I would rather hand-write and then retype than use one of those.
Why?
You can only see a few words at a time, very hard to read what you have typed out. The interface and software to get them to work was a pain in the ass. The file system they had was less than stellar, my shit kept getting overwritten or would not save correctly. Total junk.
Didn’t Elvis once famously kill a roach with a revolver? I remember hearing that story, but all I can find with cursory DDG searches is some altercation between him and Alice Cooper.
I might be confusing it with the story about him shooting his TV, but I’m not sure how a roach would get involved in that memory. Maybe I’m recalling a Simpsons bit. It’s too early for me to remember clearly.
Elvis fired his .38 into the dashboard of his small sports car in 1971 when it wouldn’t start. No way he didn’t do permanent hearing damage.
Usually when you think that’s a solution, I don’t think the hearing is the problem.
He was a professional musician, you would think his hearing would be his concern. But by 1971 he was on a steady diet of moonpies and drugs.
I know, he was know for taking things over the top and well other things that are “allegations” of participants of a certain resort.
This story might have been the inspiration for Bug-a-salt
A new zealand company makes a thing cslled the A24, and it’s a rat-sized co2-driven ‘matador’ (the weapon in “no country for ild men”), which is pretty much that.
Hey, let’s stick an atomic bomb to a bait! That’ll get rid of the pest!
America has one solution for everything.
Can confirm. My grandfather built several devices for killing gophers. They were placed at the top of their holes. When the gopher popped out, it would push a rod that would release a spring-loaded pin, firing a shotgun shell from a short length of steel pipe.
Gophers travel above ground most often at night, so sleeping at my grandparents’ place often included surprise nocturnal ammunition discharges.
And it works almost 0 times
Worked pretty well on those mice. Shame about my house falling down because of all the bullet holes.
Just imagine hearing a BANG at night and you look around for bullet holes, only to find out it was your neighbour’s mouse trap and you need a new dog.
Hey in our defense, it’s a pretty good solution
It’s certainly a solution
Pew pew! ‘Murica!
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Would a blank still kill the mouse/rat?
At that range, absolutely. A blank will blow a sizable hole in a rat or mole. People die every year from the perception that blanks are “safe”; aside from any barrel debris or wadding that may be ejected, they are still completely lethal at very close ranges because of the pressure wave.
So outside of being loud, expensive, messy, overkill, and dangerous, what is the downside?
Actually, I kind of wish this did catch on for more grocery aisle acceptable type items. Like right next to rat poison and car air fresheners.
For what it’s worth, you can buy blank refills for mole traps / nail guns at my local supermarket and they are in fact right next to the rat poison and air fresheners.
Fascinating; I bet our urban grocery stores have more holistic options and, behind the curtains, large-scale commercial solutions. Somewhere in the middle is the perfect store, where a man can choose every option on how to kill rodents while making that lingering smell in his car a little more tolerable.
