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From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.misc
Subject: Re: Spiders Haters Unite
Message-ID: <3518@gatech.CSNET>
Date: Sat, 3-May-86 20:45:42 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  3 20:45:42 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 4-May-86 08:03:54 EDT
References: <310@gvax.cs.cornell.edu> <7216@tekecs.UUCP> <697@steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
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In article <697@steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) writes:
>
>Seriously, my favorite killer is starting either from the local auto
>stores. It kills bees, wasps, hornets, termites (after the local bug
>man couldn't), etc. While you have to use care when applying it, unlike
>many commercial sprays it leaves no poisons to affect kids, petc, etc.

You better be damn careful with starting ether!!  The stuff is *highly*
explosive.  Using it in a closed room can result in explosion and fire
if you spray enough of it around and there is an open flame or spark
(i.e., pilot lights, switching on  a light switch, etc).  The fumes in
a poorly ventilated location can also knock you out...which isn't a
good thing even if it doesn't start a fire.

I would very strongly recommend against using ether for household pest
extermination, cleaning, or anything else unless you like danger.  I
wonder what your insurance company would say if there was a fire and
you explained it hard started because you were spraying your spiders
with an explosive mixture?

>"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward"

Uh, was this a disclaimer on your article?  Were you actually just
trying to support "evolution in action"?
-- 
Gene Spafford
Software Engineering Research Center, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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