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From: awc@bu-cs.UUCP (Alex Cannon)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Mouse Slaughter
Message-ID: <612@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 15:10:06 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 15:10:06 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Aug-85 05:37:54 EDT
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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***THIS IS NOT A LINE FOR THE LINE EATER, NOR A CLEVER JOKE ABOUT IT***

How's this for bizarre:

My former roommate and I, several years ago, discovered that mice
were scurrying around the apartment at night. My roommate is
allergic to all forms of furry animals, so we decided that Mickey
and his pals had to go. Instead of buying the mean, neck-crushing
variety of trap, we got the more humane(?) 'stick-em' kind, a 
plastic tray filled with adhesive.

Well, after we got the thing baited right (peanut butter on crackers),
we came into the kitchen early one morning to discover this little
guy stuck in the middle of the trap, just kind of staring at us.
Made some awful mouse-pleading noises when we got too close, but 
just had to lay there, wriggling horribly, respiration and heartbeat
through the roof.

"Well," we says, says we, "this is pretty nasty. I wish we hadn't 
done this to the poor mouse." Then I (being the bright one) read
the package, and said, "Oh, look, this says we can clean the adhesive
off with alcohol. Want to try to free the mouse?"

My roommate (here comes the bizarre part) says, "Hmmm... I've got
a beer in the fridge."

Yup, you got it. We took a Heineken and poured it over the mouse.
Now, we're not certain to this day whether the cold beer on that
frantic hyper body caused immediate death by shock, or if he just
drowned. 

I *must* stress that both I and my roommate are by nature
sober, mature, caring individuals. We weren't on drugs; we weren't
drunk. We never meant it to end like that. One thing just led to another.

And you thought GUARS had it bad...

Alex "The Exterminator" Cannon
Boston University
Anaphylactic Computing Center