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From: wa60@sdcc12.UUCP (paul van de graaf)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Build a better mousetrap
Message-ID: <673@sdcc12.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30-Aug-86 01:15:07 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 30 01:15:07 1986
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Reply-To: wa60@sdcc12.UUCP (Paul van de Graaf)
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Keywords: cheese...

[   I've told this story before on the old net.bizarre, but since the        ]
[   subject came up, I thought I'd give the new users a chance to hear it.   ]

	A while back, mice invaded my humble abode.  They do it every year
in late Fall.  To escape the cold, I suppose.  One night after coming home from
an late-night hacking session, I heard scratching noises coming from the cup-
boards.  It was being to annoy me, so I opened the cupboard door to investigate.
Inside I found a dirty brown mouse hiding behind some boxes.

	Having gotten this far, I wasn't sure what to do next.  The mouse had
frozen at the sight of me, and we stared at each other wondering what to do.
Eventually I decided to chase the mouse out of cupboard for now, and set traps
later.  I started removing boxes one by one, but the mouse would just move
behind another one.  Then I tried pushing the mouse out of the cupboard with a
box.  Success!  The mouse lunged out of the cupboard, jumped into the sink, and
down into the garbage disposal.

	By then, the thrill of the chase, and an animalistic surge adrenalin
got the better of me.  I quickly flipped the disposal switch, and the little
mousie was hamburger!  Made interesting crunching sounds, but the disposal
works to this day.

	Since then, I stick mainly to mouse-traps.  Still, they're not always
effective.  Twice I've had mice just get their tails caught.  It's rather
disconcerting to check a trap and find it gone!  Then you've got to track the
mouse down -- they don't get too far dragging a trap around!   And still you're
stuck with the dilemma of how to kill it.  I drowned one in water, and killed
the other with a brick.  It's cyanide or chlorine gas for the next mouse.

	Well they're back again.  They're way too early this year.  Perhaps it's
all the building that's going on around here.  I've set the traps and I'm ready
for the little buggers.  I wish I had a cat.

I'm suprised nobody's mentioned slugs yet...  My! there's a salty topic.

Paul van de Graaf	   sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa60		U. C. San Diego