What have you killed so far this summer?

arknor

arknor

arknor

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I've been quite fortunate up until last night with just the odd fly coming in which I've managed to guide to an open window using a towel as a moveable wall for them to fly away from.

But last night at around 1:40 am a dragon fly buzzed my face before disappearing somewhere, so I headed to the cupboard under the kitchen sink to get my trusty can of "RAID" and started spraying it in every room as if it were an air freshener and someone had taken a giant steaming dump.

at this point I noticed a small almost jet black spider about the size of a 50 pence piece on the hallway ceiling so I gave him a quick blast of raid and watched his rapid descent to the floor, to my amazement the little bugger seemed unaffected. I decided the only course of action at this point was an attempt to drown him with cancer causing chemicals so I gave him a long blast of "RAID"
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but if anything the spider appeared to be enjoying it so I went and got a shoe instead :rolleyes:

After about 10 minutes of paranoid patrols of the house looking for the daddy long legs I decided I was comfortable enough to turn the lights out and go to bed....


after about 3 minutes of laying down with my eyes closed and as much of my body covered by the duvet as possible I started to hear a strange sound, I had convinced my self a small draft must have been making the bedroom door brush slightly against the carpet....

the noise started to become more frequent until I realised it was a sort of buzzing noise.
I now started to panic trying to identify exactly where the noise was coming from all I knew was it was somewhere near the side of my bed in between me and the light switch so I sat for a couple of minutes before getting the willpower to stand barefoot on the floor and turn the light on.

I quickly stumbled for the light switch before leaping quickly back on to the safety of the bed, I then noticed movement on the floor the stupid dragon fly in it's death throws as the "RAID" slowly took effect.

That horrible disgusting creature was less than 12 inches from falling onto my face. :mad:

I had total confidence that if any big spiders or moths came in to my house the RAID would be able to handle it without any issues.... after all it
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:rolleyes: but now I feel rather vulnerable.... without my safety net


So OCUKERS who could be bothered to read all of this, what have you annihilated so far this summer and what was your method of dispatch ?
 
Where practical, I avoid killing anything. Usually move spiders, moths, crane flies etc. It seems a unnecessarily vindictive to kill something which can so easily be re-positioned.

We did, however have an ants nest under our fireplace in the dining room - they were getting in and our through a small hole in the marble hearth. They had found their way to the kitchen bins, and were trooping back and forth with their supplies.

I tried a couple of those ant traps over a few weeks, but they were completely ineffective (not helped by me only being able to put them down at night due to our nearly-1-year-old's presence). So I poked a straw in the hole, put the fly-spray on the other end of the straw and gassed the poor fellas. It seems to have worked, but I feel a bit bad about it.
 
arknor said:
I then noticed movement on the floor the stupid dragon fly in it's death throws as the "RAID" slowly took effect.

That horrible disgusting creature was less than 12 inches from falling onto my face. :mad:
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I haven't killed anything. There is no need.
So the dragonfly is "stupid" and "horrible disgusting"? For being unfortunate enough to venture into your house? Close your bloody windows then.
If you hadn't noticed, we do actually share this planet with several other life-forms. They have as much right to life as you do.
Boasting about causing slow, agonising deaths to creatures that have done no harm to you whatsoever is really quite pathetic.
 
I normally try to capturer and throw the insects outside unless its mosquito. I found 5 falseback widows in my house the last 2 I just killed to prevent the little buggers form returning.
 
dougal1331 said:
I haven't killed anything. There is no need.
So the dragonfly is "stupid" and "horrible disgusting"? For being unfortunate enough to venture into your house? Close your bloody windows then.
If you hadn't noticed, we do actually share this planet with several other life-forms. They have as much right to life as you do.
Boasting about causing slow, agonising deaths to creatures that have done no harm to you whatsoever is really quite pathetic.
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It's natural behaviour to defend ones territory against invasive species.

Dragonfly are hardly innocent creatures either some of them will eat their own kind
 
Funny story, Chemical free as well! :P


I bumped into a spider on my way to the bathroom in pitch black and watched in amusement as it went into a ball once i turned on the light and for a second i thought.... Is it fluff hanging from the roof? Is it a spider that is hanging dead from a web? I blew on him a little... Nope then as soon as the hoover comes near him BAM springs into life and tries to get away but obviously being the professional spider hunter i am he had 0% chance.


I caught one last night also they were mating on my window i watched them for a good ten minutes at first i thought it was a fight to the death but im sure they were humping when they basically wrapped around each other into a ball. I was furious so out i went with a baby wipe on a pole to crush and wipe thier innards over the glass.


And i noticed one come in the very same window and make a web up in the corner one night also and i thought to myself, That's a bit daring especially in my house but i was not sure how to get him being at night and the hoover waking the neighbours. So using my unlimited IQ i grabbed a lighter and burned him down. And when i went to get a wipe i turned and it was gone! I thought wtf is going on where did it go? Then i noticed a tall leg pop out from the crack at the side of the sash window on the frame. Yup TWO spiders one had came up and grabbed the second and was sitting there waiting to come out. So i burned his leg and off he went as well. I have not seen either spider since but somewhere there is a 7 leg spider with a tale of woe to tell.
 
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I've had bees nest in a hole in side of house, wasp nest in loft, one mouse, several spiders lots of moths and what's seems like a pandemic of larger flies the past few days.
 
Rofflay said:
So using my unlimited IQ i grabbed a lighter and burned him down.
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Might not be unlimited IQ after all. I bet this is you!
http://news.msn.com/offbeat/man-using-blowtorch-to-kill-spider-started-fire
Moore said the man used the spray paint and lighter as "a self-made blowtorch to kill a spider in the laundry room" of a rental house.

"I don't want to encourage people to do this, but that's what he did," Moore said Wednesday. "The spider tried to get into the wall. He sprayed flames on the wall, lit the wall on fire, and that extended up to the ceiling."
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judging by the state of my visor i have headbutted several thousand of the little *******s into oblivion so far.
 
A pigeon exploded on my bonnet a day or two ago. Left a big red blood patch which explained all the funny looks I was getting before I finished my journey which was also enough time for it to dry. I cleaned the red off in case I got accused of killing a person but the guts that splashed up the windscreen still need to be cleaned really :/

I was a bit upset with myself really, I don't get pleasure out of killing things. This summer I've saved 8 spiders from the bathtub :D
 
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i have taken out a couple of pigeons and about 3 rabbits, of no fault of mine, the pigeons just sit looking at you, when you are heading at 60mph towards them, and the rabbit like to run off the verge where they are nice and safe, straight under my car :S
 
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