Question of the day probably appropriate for an NPR special “Is using a 44 on a mouse kind of overkill”? And what legislation is going to be enacted to prevent this from happening again haha – I agree with Bill go mouse go!
Token “Right-Wing” NPR panelist: Actually, Juan, I think it’s just the opposite. There were multiple mice involved in this incident so I think a revolver was underkill if anything. A belt-fed weapon would have been much more appropriate.
(Continuing today’s NPR panel debate, “Gun control or pest control” — the environmentalist’s reply: )
With all due respect, Uhtred, we need to try to be humane and to conserve our resources. When you’re dealing with pests aged unstated, 42, and 43 — and you want to put all three out of their misery with a single shot — I think a .44 is what would logically come next.
Well, taking your own argument to the next level, a fragmentation grenade would be even more humane. Also, more environmentally friendly, since (IIRC) fragmentation grenades contain no lead. Of course, the collateral damage would be drastically increased.
Look, a .44 revolver is dificult to handle, as is clear from this story. A shoulder fired, belt-fed weapon, while probably not improving the per-round-hit percentage over the revolver (in untrained hands at least), would provide more hits-on-target in a given time frame simply due to the greater volume of rounds in that time frame.
Of course, we could just say “screw it” and napalm the furry, little bastards.
The smell of napalm can be lovely, but what you’re describing sounds like an apocalypse now. Perhaps we should just agree to disagree and discuss movies the next time.
Napalm would be stupid. unl;ess you like burning your house down. why not some simple CS gas? its an aggravating agent supposedly, but should be plent y to kill the little bastards… and, its great for getting over a cold or flu
What may be totally ineffective later is the guy in the trailer’s ability to reproduce (which no doubt is a good thing for humanity) if, by “coin pocket” they mean ‘ballsack.’ We can only hold thumbs…
PETA is nothing but an extremist group of hippies that has absolutely nothing better to do with their time than to terrorize people about the lesser species on this planet. I’m all for protecting endangered species, but I don’t give a rats ass about, well…. a rat’s ass.
PETA needs to f-ing die. Every one of them. I want to cut them up and cook them. And I also hope a lion rips some of them to shreds and be like “See? THey dont f*cking care about you”.
I hate PETA with the passion of a thousand juicy flame grilled steaks.
You know absolutely nothing about them. Everything you think you know you are just mimicking what you have heard from other ignorant people. Educate yourself before sitting down at your keyboard.
you mean where ingrid newkirk said people shouldn’t own pets because its unethical? or about killing of animals regarded as “pests” (such as mice and rats)? everyone, let your cats, dogs and birds run free. that won’t be a disaster or anything.
agree, be responsible and respectful to animals, but dont fund terrorists to advance your agenda (rodney coronado).
Not that i like the organization, but they are pretty equally shitty as most religions. one shoves a pamphlet of an aborted fetus in your face and tells you that you will burn in a lake of fire somewhere in imagination land, and the other shoves pamphlets in your face of cows and chickens being slaughtered. Personally, they all just need to relax a bit.
That and im a firm believer that most every problem on earth is affected by overpopulation.
And in response to you: I used to work with some dumb b*tch from PETA who was every day shoving her stupid f*cking beliefs, which are so absolutely ridiculous, down everyone’s throat. Needless to say, she was fired for being a big stupid c*nt. I heard all the stupid sh*t she had to say and was not impressed. If you as*holes wanna stand outside naked in a cage to simulate what’s happening to cows or whatever, go ahead because you’re just making yourself look like the retards you really are. And if you think humans are so devastating to the animals and environment, then you can help by killing yourself. Start the trend. I swear, we’ll follow your steps. :-\
I don’t think I have met any type of person MORE obnoxious than a PETA “activist.” or “terrorist”. Whichever one is more politically correct for you.
i know, you’ve really got to question their motives: i think their just looking for excuses to cause violence. i mean if you care so little about people that you would burn down their houses why would you care in the slightest about animals
We did “educate” ourselves before commenting. And with that, we have come to the conclusion that PETA, does indeed, suck balls.
Also, 98% of the people who use the word “educate” are actually morons themselves, because they do not know any synonyms for it, such as “enlighten,” “develop,” “foster,” and “school.” Or if you want to put in a sexual/immature reference, “rear” is also readily available.
Correction to the correction to the correction:
“that has” was correct, as “group” (a singular noun) is the subject of the clause in which “has” is the verb. Also, this means JD’s first correction (“to do with its time”) is also correct because, again, the subject of the possessive pronoun (say it with me: the subject here is “group,” not “hippies”) is singular.
“group” is the noun. You conjugate “to have” as “has” with a singular noun. “its” is appropriate as well, because “it” is a “group.” Just because it is a group of people doesn’t mean you conjugate as if it’s a plural noun.
HEY, don’t you talk down on my species! It did work itself up to the top of the food chain! Obviously you can find many individuals here that would make you doubt that, but you have to give credit to the entire species.
It’s true. I can’t really respect an organization that tells children to call their parents murders for eating meat, one that encourages college students to get drunk over drinking milk (like those of us in college need the encouragement), or one that attempts to use the Canadian bus beheading to further their agenda.
They make everyone who subscribes to the cause or those who are sympathetic look bad.
Even PETA wants to find ways to kill mice and rats:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently named Dr. Nigel Binns as its Person of the Year. Binns’ major accomplishment? He developed an extremely effective way to kill mice.
According to a PETA press release,
“Unlike cruel poisons, snaps, and glue traps — which can cause mice and rats to suffer in agony for hours or days — the RADAR trap painlessly gasses trapped rodents with carbon dioxide.”
Binns is chief biologist for UK pest control company Rentokil. According to a New Scientist story on his trap,
“Nigel Binns, Rentokil’s chief biologist, wanted a trap that would kill only target animals, and do so humanely. It would then alert a pest controller that the trap needed attention. Inside its white plastic enclosure, a pressure pad senses the weight of an animal’s paw, and closes the door if the footfall matches the weight of a rat or mouse. Squirrels or small rabbits are spared, he says. Gas released from a carbon dioxide capsule then kills the vermin humanely.”
Binns tells New Scientist that computer data centers might be one big customer of his trap, since its constant monitoring and instant notification would help reduce rat problems that some data centers have experienced.
Sources:
Builder of more humane mousetrap recognized as PETA’s ‘Person of the Year’. Press Release, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 2005.
UR r@ is in the trap. New Scientist, November 17, 2005.
For the record, I hate PETA. They actually cause more harm to the world than help to the animals they say they want to help. Still, snap traps are a bit smarter than .44 magnums.
i dunno… more blood in a human body for sure but a mouse would just explode with a .44 hit… that’s a lot of splash damage to mop up… sponsored by Molly Maids fail?
I’m a girl, so the whole “squirting the keyboard theory” doesn’t really work here… truthfully, it’s most likely the spilled Starbucks from Monday, but we can be imaginative if we want. *squirt*
I think you’re on to something there. If she had caught that on video, noone would have believed the trajectory on that thing. It would make a great ad for Smith and Wesson.
If you saw ratatuille, this happens at the begining of the movie, except the old lady trashes her house trying to kill the mice and she doen’t shot herself.
For a second I thought that said poison ivy, and I was contemplating how to get the mice to rub it all over themselves so that they would get horrible, itchy rashes and be immobilized.
1. A small house, structure, or dwelling which is defined as being so small, that if one were to point a shotgun at the door and fire, everybody within the dwelling would be hit or killed.
Oh sure, Elvis shoots his TV and he’s America’s wet dream. Some trailer trash lunatic tries to shoot up a mouse and she’s branded as a trailer trash lunatic. Or is it just me who thinks this?
She tried to shoot a mouse with a freaking .44 Magnum. She’s a lunatic. No question about it. Elvis was also on the lunatic spectrum. And he certainly doesn’t feature in my happy dreams.
Did anyone else read about the bullet ending up in the coin pocket? COIN POCKET – either A.) he has a bullet lodged in his manly never regions OUCH or B.) he is actually carrying a coin purse…Either way FAIL!
“never regions”? Is that anything like nether regions?
Popular groin reference usage fail.
BTW, a coin pocket is that useless little pocket located at the top of the (usually) right pocket on most jeans.
No one ever questions how gross/weird it was in the movie, that the rat “controlled” the boy by “pulling his hair”. He literally commandeered the kid by yanking on stalks of his bangs. Are they connected to his brain? Does anyone else have a problem with this?
As I picture this scene as it played out, I also picture Benny Hill type music playing in the background, and the man slipping on a banana peel just after the bullet “grazed” past him
the sad thing is, i don’t live too far from the area where this happened. let me tell you, something like this is just as it seems. a truly trailer trash scenerio. what’s even sadder is that’s not the worst thing to be put in the dumbest things catagories done up in this area. thank god i’m not originally from this area so the inbreeding didnt rub off on me.
But the problem still lingers! Instead of inheriting “crummy genes” or “exposed to sucky parents with bad reasoning skills”; your life was impacted by this event! It’s not so much that the lives of innocent mice were endangered but that you; as a HUMAN, were made dumber for having been exposed to the event ( indirectly but none the less exposed! ). I don’t think most of our species will make it.
Hey help please! My baby is shit ting all over my place and he won’t stop! I tried everything (gave him some bananas and rice, throw him of the window, putting his own chocolate in his mouth,…) but till now nothing helped!! PLEASE HELP!!!
did you hear about the trio of Canadian bank robbers?
black car reverses up to bank. two men in balaclavers carrying guns and sacks get out. they go into bank. some minutes later they come out with full sacks. one man trips over accidently pulls trigger and shoots himself in the foot. second man runs around the back of the car shouts “GO” driver presses the accelerator (car still in reverse) and runs over the second man!
The bullet ricocheted off of Mighty Mouse’s chest, off her knee cap and then hit a key chain and bounced into his groin and grazed it before coming to a halt in his coin pocket? Skills.
But you have to understand the mind of the rodent terrorist. They will stop at nothing. They hate trailer parks. They hate freedom. They also hate mudflaps and country music. The enemy must be contained, and as trailer-dwellers we must use any force necessary to win the war on mouse terror.
Sounds like someone needs his phone line tapped. O wait, we’ve been doing that for years. Mwah hahaHA! These nonexistent “sleeper-cells” are just as bad as those nonexistent WMD’s floating around Iraq. speaking of Sadams WMD’s, I believe they have been illegally transported over to Iran. Off to Iran we go.
I dont see how the several flimsy, insubstantial objects that the bullet struck could possibly have stopped it. (I include the kneecap: flimsy, old person kneecap.)
It was allegedly a .44 magnum. Kneecap, a little skin off the groin, set of keys, perhaps went through a layer of cloth to get into the coin pocket. No way that would stop it.
well, thats what happens if you give fire arms to stupid people. in other words: respect to your legislation that allows any butthead to play around with a loaded gun or worse. thats one big step towards a bunch of *** killing themselves, regarding it as their right to run around armed like rambo himself.
god bless all americans while they shoot each other – better then shooting some old ladies in iraque or somewhere else…
Really you’re from Potter Valley? Small world, My dad moonlights at the clinic and actually got called in for this one. I’d have to agree though most people in Potter Valley are crazy or on drugs.
Darwin Award, not mention. Remember, the guy got his “Coin pocket” (dick) shot off. He can no longer reproduce with his unintelligant wife, and therefor WHOOOOT!
Go mouse go!
Question of the day probably appropriate for an NPR special “Is using a 44 on a mouse kind of overkill”? And what legislation is going to be enacted to prevent this from happening again
haha – I agree with Bill go mouse go!
Token “Right-Wing” NPR panelist: Actually, Juan, I think it’s just the opposite. There were multiple mice involved in this incident so I think a revolver was underkill if anything. A belt-fed weapon would have been much more appropriate.
(Continuing today’s NPR panel debate, “Gun control or pest control” — the environmentalist’s reply: )
With all due respect, Uhtred, we need to try to be humane and to conserve our resources. When you’re dealing with pests aged unstated, 42, and 43 — and you want to put all three out of their misery with a single shot — I think a .44 is what would logically come next.
“Well, I’m Diane Rehm and *croak* *croak* *croak*. *Crooooooooooooooak*.”
LOL! Everytime I hear her, I picture a grey-hair-up-in-a-bun, knock-kneed, old woman leaning on a walker.
I imagine Death’s patient smile.
Tom and Jerry would be proud
Killer wit finds his voice.
That sounds more like Diane Rheum.
Score!
Still trying to score with me, eh?
And the score is tied at love all.
Quit c-blocking, dude.
Pardon me. I had no idea. Pray continue.
HAH! Ooooh, you SO burned me there!!!
Trying to capitalize on non-existent low self-esteem/self confidence FAIL!
Well, taking your own argument to the next level, a fragmentation grenade would be even more humane. Also, more environmentally friendly, since (IIRC) fragmentation grenades contain no lead. Of course, the collateral damage would be drastically increased.
Look, a .44 revolver is dificult to handle, as is clear from this story. A shoulder fired, belt-fed weapon, while probably not improving the per-round-hit percentage over the revolver (in untrained hands at least), would provide more hits-on-target in a given time frame simply due to the greater volume of rounds in that time frame.
Of course, we could just say “screw it” and napalm the furry, little bastards.
The smell of napalm can be lovely, but what you’re describing sounds like an apocalypse now. Perhaps we should just agree to disagree and discuss movies the next time.
“I love the smell napalmed-mice in the morning! smells like..Vic.. *sniff-sniff*……smells kinda mousey”
Napalm would be stupid. unl;ess you like burning your house down. why not some simple CS gas? its an aggravating agent supposedly, but should be plent y to kill the little bastards… and, its great for getting over a cold or flu
Kill the mice and the dumbasses at the same time. Nuclear weapons are the answer.
YOU ARE ALL WRONG! The proper weapon is a can of Raid.
Dumbasses…
Then again, firearms to make it oh so much spectacular… INSTAGIB!
I would say it can’t be OVERkill, since no mice were actually killed (nor humans, for that matter). “Totally ineffective”? Yes!
What may be totally ineffective later is the guy in the trailer’s ability to reproduce (which no doubt is a good thing for humanity) if, by “coin pocket” they mean ‘ballsack.’ We can only hold thumbs…
LMFAO
Was she using weapons of mouse destruction?
she tried, but her plan back-fired on her (and the guy)
did you completely miss the humor there?
Did YOU completely miss the humor there?
We need to invade and find out ASAP.
Comment win!
But common sense fail!
I lol’d.
*in super-high mousy voice* Hans Brix, Hans Brix!
That’s a gas.
*opens a window*
*blames it on the dog*
*naively turns on the Wii*
Surprise Nintendog buttsecks!
*laughs immoderately loudly*
lil wtf tis that o.O
Indeed.
(Canines wont buttsecks below this level)
(Sara’s incisors are incisive.)
trying to get a breather after laughing too much… smoke in order.
o Jim u!
Brilliant.
I lol’ed too.
Very Clever. *clap*
Weapons of Mouse Destruction
Im still rolling on the floor laughing my ass clear off! Thats seriously funny Jim!
EPIC COMMENT WIN, LULZ
If we weren’t supposed to eat animals, they wouldn’t have been made out of meat
HA HA HA!
That probably was an organized mouse army…
PETA win!
PETA is nothing but an extremist group of hippies that has absolutely nothing better to do with their time than to terrorize people about the lesser species on this planet. I’m all for protecting endangered species, but I don’t give a rats ass about, well…. a rat’s ass.
HAHA!
Epic!
should be
People Eating Tasty Animals
Meat is murder, tasty, tasty murder!
Yes, it’s that important
Murder. It’s what’s for dinner.
Dinner. It’s what’s for murder.
In Soviet Russia, dinner murders you.
What the hell are they putting in their Big Macs?!
Live polar bears or something equally ferocious. xD
In dinner, Soviet Russias you.
and murders are crows. also tasty
Hehe, our university used to have “PETA” BBQs. Tasty, indeed!
PETA needs to f-ing die. Every one of them. I want to cut them up and cook them. And I also hope a lion rips some of them to shreds and be like “See? THey dont f*cking care about you”.
I hate PETA with the passion of a thousand juicy flame grilled steaks.
You know absolutely nothing about them. Everything you think you know you are just mimicking what you have heard from other ignorant people. Educate yourself before sitting down at your keyboard.
But seriously. PETA sucks
you mean where ingrid newkirk said people shouldn’t own pets because its unethical? or about killing of animals regarded as “pests” (such as mice and rats)? everyone, let your cats, dogs and birds run free. that won’t be a disaster or anything.
agree, be responsible and respectful to animals, but dont fund terrorists to advance your agenda (rodney coronado).
guh – where is gasman when you need him?
B3nd over and i’ll show you a coronado
(oh, and dont forget that peta euthanizes around 90% of the animals they shelter, as opposed to the humane society, which is around 33% – gg)
Not that i like the organization, but they are pretty equally shitty as most religions. one shoves a pamphlet of an aborted fetus in your face and tells you that you will burn in a lake of fire somewhere in imagination land, and the other shoves pamphlets in your face of cows and chickens being slaughtered. Personally, they all just need to relax a bit.
That and im a firm believer that most every problem on earth is affected by overpopulation.
gasman: bend over and i’ll show you what you know nothing about
And in response to you: I used to work with some dumb b*tch from PETA who was every day shoving her stupid f*cking beliefs, which are so absolutely ridiculous, down everyone’s throat. Needless to say, she was fired for being a big stupid c*nt. I heard all the stupid sh*t she had to say and was not impressed. If you as*holes wanna stand outside naked in a cage to simulate what’s happening to cows or whatever, go ahead because you’re just making yourself look like the retards you really are. And if you think humans are so devastating to the animals and environment, then you can help by killing yourself. Start the trend. I swear, we’ll follow your steps. :-\
I don’t think I have met any type of person MORE obnoxious than a PETA “activist.” or “terrorist”. Whichever one is more politically correct for you.
Come on now Tatter. Stop holding back. Tell us how you really feel!
I was actually just naked in the cage because I was trying to get a nice suntan. And ward off perverts.
you no peta K when she’s ina the cage
Hey guys. Animals are friends. Delicious, delicious friends.
*tucks into the soul of a baby cow*
NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!
Ooop! Bit of sweater caught in my teeth…*pleh!*
Nothing goes better with a medium rare sweater cow than a nice cold glass of milk.
What a sweet cream image, sharing a snack with bosom buddies, teat-a-teat and heart-to-soul.
Cheesy…but sweet. I love our little hooved (they lac-toes) friends.
I prefer the chicken omelet. Nothing tastes better than two generations of chicken in one scrumptious meal.
Delicious friends roast one another –
In delicto flagrante for the burn!
: oops :
more emphasis in the end than intended –
it was meant for just the latin loving parts
(serves me right, playing with fire)
goddammit Ennis.
i wish i knew how to quit burning myself
*moan* i’ll be in my bunk
I’ll be right behind you, if you know what I mean.
Dragonwriter is a pro at knowing what you mean.
I saw what you did there.
*bow chicka bunk-bunk*
Did you? Because I didn’t.
the animal rights activists burnt down a milkmans house near me because he delivered milk to an animal testing centre
I know… I. Was. That. Milkman.
It’s true! My cousin’s roommate’s stepbrother saw him!
Well now thats terrorism. I don’t have a problem with people believing one thing or another but when you are hurting another person, that’s wrong.
everyone has to believe what I believe or else you’re terrorist!
i know, you’ve really got to question their motives: i think their just looking for excuses to cause violence. i mean if you care so little about people that you would burn down their houses why would you care in the slightest about animals
We did “educate” ourselves before commenting. And with that, we have come to the conclusion that PETA, does indeed, suck balls.
Also, 98% of the people who use the word “educate” are actually morons themselves, because they do not know any synonyms for it, such as “enlighten,” “develop,” “foster,” and “school.” Or if you want to put in a sexual/immature reference, “rear” is also readily available.
Very nice. I LOL’d.
Correcting for above:
“to do with its*** time”
“rat’s*** ass”
correction to the correction:
“that have***”
“with their time”
the organization is fine, the people are the idiots
Correction to the correction to the correction:
“that has” was correct, as “group” (a singular noun) is the subject of the clause in which “has” is the verb. Also, this means JD’s first correction (“to do with its time”) is also correct because, again, the subject of the possessive pronoun (say it with me: the subject here is “group,” not “hippies”) is singular.
Damned English Majors….
I’m a doctor, not a spellcheck! For the sake of pie, no one cares about grammar! It was just one little thing I noticed.
Please, get layed (yes, that is intentional, you jackasses).
“group” is the noun. You conjugate “to have” as “has” with a singular noun. “its” is appropriate as well, because “it” is a “group.” Just because it is a group of people doesn’t mean you conjugate as if it’s a plural noun.
C==3
LOL … he’s got no hold on himself this time
And, ladies, I had just gotten out of the pool when I typed that.
Grammar police killed the mood again…
Grammar police: Bow chicka bo-ring.
That was excitin’ — I bow to chicka’s ribbin’s.
Oooh, Failblog is NOT the place to bend over like that, fuzz….
what the hell — tie me up
*snortgiggle!*
totally sign
I didn’t work my way to the top of the food chain to become a vegetarian.
There be some organisms on the bottom of the food chain what live in the bottom of your chain of food — yes, that means your bottom.
You didn’t work your way to the top of anything. You were born at the top.
i love democracy
and entitlement
someone jus’ got deserved
Someone just got served….on a platter.
HEY, don’t you talk down on my species! It did work itself up to the top of the food chain! Obviously you can find many individuals here that would make you doubt that, but you have to give credit to the entire species.
Ironically, you’re about to be eaten alive.
Nom nom nom.
(Sara’s incisive incisors are wont to nominate at any level they damn please.)
It’s true. I can’t really respect an organization that tells children to call their parents murders for eating meat, one that encourages college students to get drunk over drinking milk (like those of us in college need the encouragement), or one that attempts to use the Canadian bus beheading to further their agenda.
They make everyone who subscribes to the cause or those who are sympathetic look bad.
I tell children to call 911 about their parents murders.
Fuzz, always considerate.
Just don’t make me look bad; that wouldn’t be sympathetic.
Mais tu es très sympathique!
You make looking bad look very good.
I’m not bad…I’m just drawn that way.
here, lemme try to draw you …
*gets his Escher-sketch and Chartreuse*
mmm Green Chartreuse, not had that in years
(Escher-sketch, Win)
Yellow’s good, too.
Lemme pour some on ya’.
Everybody must get Fried.
…ewwwwww!!
you never sipped with/in a drunken ‘puss, nether?
Its too bad Mr. Valliant got you all wrong, Dragonwriter
I’m a vegetarian who hates PETA. All vegetarians/vegans that I know personally hate PETA. So yeah. Everyone should hate PETA.
That’s a very cogent argument. All my friends hate X, so everybody should hate X.
A fiortiori…! Ah, my favorite form of logical fallacy.
appears you may have a phallacy in your little flower, my dear
HAH!
I have Latin phail.
Faillacy.
makes me a Latin phail lover … no, wait … one of those words is just not a mot juste
“Makes”?
Out, out with you!
“What is it she does now? Look how she rubs her hands.”
(didja notice that spot where i di’n't call you my bitch??)
No more o’ that, my lord, no more o’ that: you mar all with this starting.
(Oh…lordy. I just now got it. SLOW TO GET THE JOKE FAIL
ON ME!!!
…Spot. *SNORK!* You win. )
now you ma bitch!
Hey, you know who loved PETA?
Hitler. You Nazi.
You know who loved PETA?
Hitler. You Nazi.
You know who loved double posts?
HITLER. You Nazi.
Whew! For a second there, I was worried you were going to say…
…erm…I mean…Um….
YEAH! Nazi!
I love me some womens what can double entendre all round their postings.
::masturbates::
Way to master the single entendre there, K. :p
shhh … K is blindingly single-minded right now
Not if she’s friends with everybody
What? They’re beheading Canadian buses, now? Good thing I just got my moose repaired.
What? You weren’t there?!
I think that was the time I was blind for a day. Walked into a tree.
K “::masturbates::” at 2:32 pm.
she comments about being blind at 2:33 pm
– darlin’, I think you’re doing it right
A .44 may be overkill for mice, but it’s perfect for clearing infestations of PETArds.
Damn hippies.
Hey, I’m a member of PETA. People Enjoying Tasty Animals! Booya!
“Most outdated joke ever heard by a vegetarian” fail.
hehe hi-five.. anyone.. hello?
*chirp*
WIN WIN WIN!!!
Even PETA wants to find ways to kill mice and rats:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently named Dr. Nigel Binns as its Person of the Year. Binns’ major accomplishment? He developed an extremely effective way to kill mice.
According to a PETA press release,
“Unlike cruel poisons, snaps, and glue traps — which can cause mice and rats to suffer in agony for hours or days — the RADAR trap painlessly gasses trapped rodents with carbon dioxide.”
Binns is chief biologist for UK pest control company Rentokil. According to a New Scientist story on his trap,
“Nigel Binns, Rentokil’s chief biologist, wanted a trap that would kill only target animals, and do so humanely. It would then alert a pest controller that the trap needed attention. Inside its white plastic enclosure, a pressure pad senses the weight of an animal’s paw, and closes the door if the footfall matches the weight of a rat or mouse. Squirrels or small rabbits are spared, he says. Gas released from a carbon dioxide capsule then kills the vermin humanely.”
Binns tells New Scientist that computer data centers might be one big customer of his trap, since its constant monitoring and instant notification would help reduce rat problems that some data centers have experienced.
Sources:
Builder of more humane mousetrap recognized as PETA’s ‘Person of the Year’. Press Release, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, 2005.
UR r@ is in the trap. New Scientist, November 17, 2005.
For the record, I hate PETA. They actually cause more harm to the world than help to the animals they say they want to help. Still, snap traps are a bit smarter than .44 magnums.
How many people in the UK have squirrels and rabbits running around their house?
Must have been some big mice, a 44 Magnum?
thinking about the mess beforehand fail
You mean afterward? I’d think a human corpse and bullet holes all over the place would be an even bigger mess.
i dunno… more blood in a human body for sure but a mouse would just explode with a .44 hit… that’s a lot of splash damage to mop up… sponsored by Molly Maids fail?
.44 Magnum for a mouse? she definitely wanted it dead…but consider the mess to clear up if she’d hit? thinking ahead fail
Think of the mess if it were a wii mouse with a screaming little boy in the room.
I would be willing to bet that there was quite a bit of screaming going on. And that he sounded like a little boy.
The only thing that could make this scene better is dogrape
You must’ve been pretty disappointed when you found out the Wiimote wasn’t a DualShock controller.
and an excited dog!
With a slightly different ending, this would have made a great darwin Award… too bad.
*Darwin… my bad… my shift key sticks…
Shift key fail
…sticky win! – nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more
I LOLed.
Bugger as much as I hate sticky keys…big-up to DT!
Maybe, under the circumstances, you should consider rewording “big-up.” (Or maybe you shouldn’t………)
::masturbates::
HAHA! WIN!
“a nod’s as good as a wink to a blind man”
a blind man walks into a bar…
he says, i’ll have a martini.
…
what, did you think this was going to be funny?
Not at all.
Excellent.
Sticky Keyboard fail.
You gotta ask though, why is the keyboard sticky? ::masturbates:: Enlighten us jinx
I’m a girl, so the whole “squirting the keyboard theory” doesn’t really work here… truthfully, it’s most likely the spilled Starbucks from Monday, but we can be imaginative if we want. *squirt*
“It wasn’t me. It was my drink’s dick-straw!”
Sucked too hard on the straw, did you?
It wasn’t going to suck itself.
That can happen when you come on the cyber net a lot.
Calamitous Jane fail, man with graized-groin fail, mouse/mice epic WIN!
“…grazed the man’s groin before ending up in his coin pocket.”
At first I thought “Wait! How did it graze it and then end up in it!?”
Purse… pocket… whatever. They both hold coins.
Maybe it was the Kennedy bullet?
I think you’re on to something there. If she had caught that on video, noone would have believed the trajectory on that thing. It would make a great ad for Smith and Wesson.
Great. Here come the black helicopters. Now we’re all dead. Thanks.
I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.
Illuminati don’t surf!
back and to the left…
genital euphemism WIN
“coin purse”
MONEY SHOT!!
FTW!!
Gender reassignment epic fail
Spam purse
Sperm purse
Axe wound
Actually come to think of it, it WAS just a flesh wound!
They made movies bout this stuff…but who wouldve thought it could happen in daily life
Also, poison is more effective than a .44, and has less risks.
If you saw ratatuille, this happens at the begining of the movie, except the old lady trashes her house trying to kill the mice and she doen’t shot herself.
So…. nothing like Ratatuille then, Comparison Fail
ahaha burn
and completely horrible grammar/spelling fail
Actually, horrible grammar/spelling WIN.
English teacher fail.
And we’re not just talking about mice here. *dead stare*
can you shoot poison out of a Magnum?
Sure you can. Sudden Acute Lead Poisoning.
nice one
you got yourself a poison keyboard
I think it’s more like ballistic disruption…
doctor! i’ve got me some SALP! can you help me?
It’s only fatal if it is centered in a vital organ. Or a major blood vessel.
I… I can’t feel my spleen!
*rams hand up ass*
i can feel it! y cant u?
exactly where do you think the spleen is located?
i’ll give you a hint: nowhere you can reach through the rectum
a cat has even less risk as you cannot possibly accidentally swallow it (like poison)
I don’t know about that one I have seen some crazy sh*t….
but you can get it stuck up your ass…
how else was i supposed to get the gerbil out?
For a second I thought that said poison ivy, and I was contemplating how to get the mice to rub it all over themselves so that they would get horrible, itchy rashes and be immobilized.
I somehow got poison ivy on my brain one summer.
The only thing that helped was thinking about sandpaper.
Poison has its drawbacks, they eat it, they stagger off and die. You have to tear up half the damn house to find its corpse
Oh White Trash………….
All it says is they were in a trailer, there is no indication of ethnicity. All we can say is SHE isn’t german.
yes! gender identification WIN!
I lol’d
I was confused about the headline, until I saw “her trailer” and thought “Why not a shotgun?”
well, the shotgun is out on the porch by the rocking chair. The 44 was just more convenient aparently
definitely a shotgun shack
Urbandictionary:
1. A small house, structure, or dwelling which is defined as being so small, that if one were to point a shotgun at the door and fire, everybody within the dwelling would be hit or killed.
hit OR killed! could it be possible to be killed without being hit?
If it would please you to see it, would you die?
the or is there because you can be hit without being killed.
you could just say “hit” or say “and perhaps killed”
that’s exactly what the or is normally understood to mean.
owned lmao.
Oh sure, Elvis shoots his TV and he’s America’s wet dream. Some trailer trash lunatic tries to shoot up a mouse and she’s branded as a trailer trash lunatic. Or is it just me who thinks this?
You sound like trailer trash to me Dave
It’s just you.
She tried to shoot a mouse with a freaking .44 Magnum. She’s a lunatic. No question about it. Elvis was also on the lunatic spectrum. And he certainly doesn’t feature in my happy dreams.
I bet she can’t move her hips like Elvis.
Hip-shakin’ family breakin’ Elvis impersonatin’ FAIL
she probably can’t, what with the bullet through the kneecap and all.
maybe Telekinetic Mafia mice made it happen….
Elvis didn’t shoot himself in the process
Apparently there was no hound dog involved; just a wii mouse.
G’wan the mice!
I wonder if they were of unusual size.
love the princess bride reference… i LOLed my azz off!
If they were, then this was a “showing us how to deal with them” fail.
Did anyone else read about the bullet ending up in the coin pocket? COIN POCKET – either A.) he has a bullet lodged in his manly never regions OUCH or B.) he is actually carrying a coin purse…Either way FAIL!
Sorry, U_ARE about 5 minutes behind my coin purse reference above, and U_ARE also not nearly as funny. (Self-centered WIN!)
Khaaaaaaaan calling the pocket shots –
never say Khaaaaaan can’t
“never regions”? Is that anything like nether regions?
Popular groin reference usage fail.
BTW, a coin pocket is that useless little pocket located at the top of the (usually) right pocket on most jeans.
I thought that was a watch pocket. Huh, go figure.
wath poket is top right on shirts
typo :watch
wath your mouth
Ok, where’th the thoap?
Up hith ath.
Come hither, Rogue. Appears you still have learned when to keep your double-talking mouth shut.
Moist nether mouth!
Anon and nether more!
The new Peter Pan Porn Movie: Netherland.
Wendy: “There is Norway I’m showing you my Netherlands!”
Peter: “Um…when I said ‘Come with me’, I just meant for a quick jaunt around London, but…”
Norway is not the netherlands. AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY LESSONS FAIL
Did you really type that? And then POST it? For everyone to see??
Holy SHIT you are a braver person than I.
Emo Turtle makes me cry.
I giggled. I couldn’t help it.
Emo Turtle just hasn’t come out of his shell yet.
Yet has egg on his face.
Sorry — that was mine.
I was aiming for his groin.
Never mind, I have a pineapple! *takes aim*
netherlands = old fashoned slang(and continental) word for HOLLAND
the name = says it all
(re: your earlier posting — fuzz on nether regions is ever manly)
Not if you have to use hedge clippers.
Were prudent pruning ordered, I’d clip my fuzz and hedge my beds for the chance, ah, to invest in a mutual fund time.
ROFL @ “never regions” – that’s what my ex-wife would’ve called it.
That’s what the Raven said!
I didn’t know birds got married.
It’s more an English thing, bloke.
Once upon a Failblog funny, as I read threads flamed and punny,
Arguing grammar with a honey while trolls become a colossal bore…
One of the mice later went to Paris and became a famous chef.
That was a rat. I’m assuming you’re referring to Rattatouille.. or however it’s spelled.
No one ever questions how gross/weird it was in the movie, that the rat “controlled” the boy by “pulling his hair”. He literally commandeered the kid by yanking on stalks of his bangs. Are they connected to his brain? Does anyone else have a problem with this?
Yes, I also have a problem with it. I suspect the movie is fake, and none of it ever really happened.
Definitely photoshopped.
i fully agree. “ratatouille” was entirely photoshopped. it’s basically a 2-hour-long .gif image.
i knew something was wrong…
|the kid|
talonsofpeace, no burn here, I really did feel the same way about that movie.
*relunctantly feels a connection* <—-hetero fail
jinx done ratted on Uhtred
Oh, so you’re implying that mice just aren’t as good as rats? RODENTIST!!!!
Magic Bullet WIN!
Arlen Specter would be proud
Angelina Jolie, Morgan Friedman, and James McAvoy, however, would not be impressed.
Being cool enough not to know that last person’s name FAIL
Is it for want of knowing your Wanted?
Should have known better. The only way to take care of mice that big is a bazooka….
This.. is my boomstick!
This is Vera…it’s my very favorite gun.
firefly!
Primitive screwheads.
As I picture this scene as it played out, I also picture Benny Hill type music playing in the background, and the man slipping on a banana peel just after the bullet “grazed” past him
LOL theme tune Win
You might be a redneck if….
I approve of this comment.
Bullet was playing mousetrap.
But the damn diver missed and he ended up in some guy’s coin purse. Mousetrap fail
I lol’d at this despite my better judgment.
better judgement is best left at the door before entering failblog
Right, in such an improbable mouse contraption as this, we should be like Goldberg Rubes.
To build a better mousetrap…….
I have a design, The Rodent-Relocation-Device or ‘Ratapult’ for short.
Firearms law WIN!
.. just too many stupid people walking around with guns!
Firearms law FAIL
We want these people to weed themselves out of existence.
Thinning of the herd!
Unfortunately they tend to take out some of the good ones while they’re at it.
Oh so true..
So darWIN!
name pun win
every so often that boy shows a sign of potential talons
Indubitably.
darFail win
Not quite a WIN. She lived and can continue reproducing. Close though.
She’s 43, the chances of her reproducing are relatively slim. It is possible, but unlikely.
the sad thing is, i don’t live too far from the area where this happened. let me tell you, something like this is just as it seems. a truly trailer trash scenerio. what’s even sadder is that’s not the worst thing to be put in the dumbest things catagories done up in this area. thank god i’m not originally from this area so the inbreeding didnt rub off on me.
But the problem still lingers! Instead of inheriting “crummy genes” or “exposed to sucky parents with bad reasoning skills”; your life was impacted by this event! It’s not so much that the lives of innocent mice were endangered but that you; as a HUMAN, were made dumber for having been exposed to the event ( indirectly but none the less exposed! ). I don’t think most of our species will make it.
wow long winded AND too serious… let loose and chilllax dude
seems that would be loosely like someone calling the Buster a Patrick
I was actually there. The bullet grazed my coinpurse.
LMAO!!
Sounds like you won’t be needing any hedge clippers.
Touché.
A Frenching tongue.
And trim appearing trimmed.
A sight to behold, so well composed after such a grazing.
Wow. That’s not graduating high school.
No, its getting shot.
Well done for noticing the difference
Captain Obvious saves the day!
thank god.. i would have been really confused about whether i had actually graduated high school. phhewww!
LMAO
One does not “graduate” highschool. One graduates FROM highschool.
I think K graduated from there.
Stalker.
You said you liked candy.
*legally changes penis to candy*
Americans like to omit prepositions. I will write TO you in a couple OF days.
No, that’s living in a shotgun shack.
Where a 43-year-old woman may ask her self,
“How do I work this?”
I feel sorry for the innocent bystander guy. Ouch!
I feel sorry for you believing in innocence.
Take a bullet in the groin and we’ll see who’s sorry!
I guarantee he wasn’t an innocent bystander.
“Look out Betty-Sue, there be mice in heer. Shootem”
Yet another Darwin Award candidate!
Guns don’t shoot people – mice shoot people.
wow. =-O poor guy. that even hurt me reading it.
I feel bad for the guy, I mean he wasn’t the retard who decided it would be a good idea to shoot mice with a 44 revolver.
Women should not be allowed to use guns, cars or voting machines.
Or the name doodiehead.
uh, yeah.. they should learn to stay in the kitchen.. look the stove even comes with a foot soaker
Which is perfect since they should be barefoot.
right… so they are always ready for their man to give them a foot massage..
only if I can use my penis
I’ve heard you can’t.
You’re not my dad
Your dad’s told you you can’t massage a woman’s feet with
your penis before?
If I had a NICKEL for every time my dad said that…
Hey K, I feel you.
Here’s a quarter [you can repeat this with as much hard currency as are your desires]
Yeah, and, oddly, he told Fate that while giving a woman microderm abrasion with his scrotum.
or is that just what it’s gonna take for you to stop trying?
LOL
(i see a burn of the week candidate)
quick- get him/her to the burn ward!
Yes she deserves to die, and I hope she burns in hell!
She probably did a better job of trying to catch it than Tom.
Hey help please! My baby is shit ting all over my place and he won’t stop! I tried everything (gave him some bananas and rice, throw him of the window, putting his own chocolate in his mouth,…) but till now nothing helped!! PLEASE HELP!!!
?
i’m with you. i believe we have a new contestant for the position of “doesn’t get the idea of a blog at all”
Or, just maybe, “worst parent ever”.
‘but till now nothing helped’…
i’m not sure if the bad grammar cancels out the meaning of this last part.
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consumer deception dot com
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noonecares dot FAIL
Good thing she wasn’t attacked by a swarm of bees!
*polite laugh*
it was a heard of bees! you’ve heard of bees, right? well a heard of em were chashing her!
*another polite laugh*
Don’t laugh at that. It’s as bad as my Nirvana reference in ‘Radio Fail’. Unfunny to the bone
*yet another polite laugh*
ouch
yours fits?
First!
EPIC FAILURE
In before YHBT.
She used the wrong weapon.
A C-96 broom-handle Mauser would have been more appropriate.
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
Oh, this is SO win.
Or perhaps a plasma-rifle in the 40-watt range.
only what you see here pal
Then I’ll be back.
I wonder if someone submitted this to the Darwin Award committee. It could get an honorable mention at least…
I mean, who hunts mice with a gun? Seriously.
Who hunts mice?
REALLY little people… LMAO
Cats.
DARWIN AWARD HONORABLE MENTION
Is “coin pocket” a euphamism? o _o
Someone please shoot this Mao.
*covers coin pocket*
Man lives in trailer with mice
And gun-happy woman
Man gets shot in groin
Darwin Win!
Bend over and i’ll show you my groin.
Speaking of which, how’d the surgery go?
Hahahaha, i love the part where it said that he got shot in the groin XD XD XD
Oh man! Remember that time when the woman tried to shoot the mice?? LOL
Good times!
I’m not sure anyone was all there.
Assassination WIN?
Nobody died, so this cannot be the case. Plus they were not important enough to merit assassination. Only murder.
assassination requires a political connection
this one was uncalibrated
did you hear about the trio of Canadian bank robbers?
black car reverses up to bank. two men in balaclavers carrying guns and sacks get out. they go into bank. some minutes later they come out with full sacks. one man trips over accidently pulls trigger and shoots himself in the foot. second man runs around the back of the car shouts “GO” driver presses the accelerator (car still in reverse) and runs over the second man!
Nyuk nyuk nyuk
most americans are that stupid.
qft
and, by that comment, i will either assume you are one of the stupid ones, or you have never been here.
The trailer’s so trashy, even the OWNERS don’t care if gets shot up.
This isn’t a fail. It is tragical!
You are all making fun of the death of people. :@
You’re right, we should have a moment of silence. Meet me in that back alley, k?
talking to yourself again, am i?
The article never says that they die. It just shows that she was a complete idiot.
The bullet ricocheted off of Mighty Mouse’s chest, off her knee cap and then hit a key chain and bounced into his groin and grazed it before coming to a halt in his coin pocket? Skills.
The mouse is like ‘DOUBLE KILL’
I wonder if any mice have ever gotten an ultra kill?
*ponders*
In Soviet Russia, mouse shoots you!
hahaha Meyx wins
in imperial russia mice were exterminated PROPERLY!!!
“Tuesday, July 08, 2008″ — Day-of-the-week FAIL.
I’m pretty sure that’s a perfectly valid day of the week. Though my favorite is Friday, personally. There’s no need to be so hard on it…
TODAY is friday. the 8th.
Um, July 8th WAS a Tuesday. Today is Friday, AUGUST 8th. Correct date fail.
08/08/08 although now it is 09/08/08
That’s it. I no longer consider myself human. I will not share a race with these numbskulls.
are you a part of that (so far unsuccesful) government prodject to try and find intelligent life on Earth?
Almost an hero.
Somebody has been watching too many Tom & Jerry cartoons…
This isn’t an Extermination Fail, it’s a Mouse Win. Plus I had been wondering what the three blind mice had been up to since the last Shrek movie…
Lol! That’s the funniest one i’ve seen in a while
But you have to understand the mind of the rodent terrorist. They will stop at nothing. They hate trailer parks. They hate freedom. They also hate mudflaps and country music. The enemy must be contained, and as trailer-dwellers we must use any force necessary to win the war on mouse terror.
u sound like bush
Sounds like someone needs his phone line tapped. O wait, we’ve been doing that for years. Mwah hahaHA! These nonexistent “sleeper-cells” are just as bad as those nonexistent WMD’s floating around Iraq. speaking of Sadams WMD’s, I believe they have been illegally transported over to Iran. Off to Iran we go.
One more example of how Douglas Adams was right….we are a distant 3rd
A true Red-Neck wouldn’t have missed
poor bullet :\
epic judgement fail
“Only in America”
I hate painful fails. That people can find this funny omg…
You must be a guy…i have a sneaking suspicion a lot of women were laughing!
Dick Cheney impersonation win!
If the woman was that stupid to use a gun on mice, she deserved to die. This world doesen’t need uneducated people.
However, the mice were dang lucky!
Natural selection WIN!
heheheheheh……. coin pocket….. right next to the word groin….. heheheh
Grand Theft Auto is to blame!
Don’t mess with Jerry.
We have really stupid people here in Mendocino county.
I dont see how the several flimsy, insubstantial objects that the bullet struck could possibly have stopped it. (I include the kneecap: flimsy, old person kneecap.)
It was allegedly a .44 magnum. Kneecap, a little skin off the groin, set of keys, perhaps went through a layer of cloth to get into the coin pocket. No way that would stop it.
well, thats what happens if you give fire arms to stupid people. in other words: respect to your legislation that allows any butthead to play around with a loaded gun or worse. thats one big step towards a bunch of *** killing themselves, regarding it as their right to run around armed like rambo himself.
god bless all americans while they shoot each other – better then shooting some old ladies in iraque or somewhere else…
I’m from Potter Valley! Most he people who live here are inbred, so this kind of thing is a fairly common occurrence.
Really you’re from Potter Valley? Small world, My dad moonlights at the clinic and actually got called in for this one. I’d have to agree though most people in Potter Valley are crazy or on drugs.
when they say “coin pocket”…is it what I’m thinking?
Jesus Christ! Two of the most painful places you can be shot, no less. Was there perhaps drinking involved? And she didn’t even kill the mice!
it ended up in his coin pocket? no pun intended!
If the bullet went through her kneecap she’ll never walk properly again. That’s not funny.
Holy shit, I live next to Mendocino County and I never heard about this until now. (News Fail?)
the women has a sexy……….squishable
Darwin Award, not mention. Remember, the guy got his “Coin pocket” (dick) shot off. He can no longer reproduce with his unintelligant wife, and therefor WHOOOOT!
ROTFL with the entire report. The writing was exquisite …..
damn near crapped em
That. Is. Awesome.
It grazed him AND ended up in his coin purse? Daym!
One shot, 2 teamki… hits. \o/
PETA fail
Well, considering that was a .44 magnum it could have blown that mouse’s head clean off.
I guess it was a lucky punk.
Awwwwww Can’t believe that women was dumb enough to do that. Now some innocent man died in the process of her stupidity. =(
HAHa now THATS a good fail