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    Designer Mousetraps Keep Your Killin' Cute

    Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker

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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    09/02/09

    In reply to Designer Mousetraps Keep Your Killin' Cute
    God I hate mousetraps. Not the actual killing mice part, but just setting the damn things. Rat traps are worse, due to their finger-breaking potential. There's that moment of tension when you release the bar, to see if it'll catch, and then you gingerly set it down, praying that it does not go off when you place it on the ground. And then you place it down, and slowly back away, and....SNAP! it goes off and you jump five feet in the air.
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    Image of Princess Sparkle Pony Princess Sparkle Pony
    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    I wonder how often that mouse partied in that toaster?
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    03/16/09

    @Princess Sparkle Pony: ...and whether the rye bread had caraway seeds before it went in the toaster!
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    A Mouseapult at the end would have been better, or perhaps the mouse powered table...
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    I may be an a-hole, but i'm really glad he didn't kill the poor thing.
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    simple mouse trap that will bait, catch and kill - all you need is a bucket, a coat hanger, a pop can, bit of peanut butter and a stick/board. fill the bucket with 6 inches of water, straighten out coat hanger, and push it through the pop can so the pop can freely spins; smear peanut butter on pop can, place pop can/wire contraption over the bucket; place board/stick as a ramp to top of bucket. Mouse smells peanut butter, goes up the ramp, jumps to the peanut butter; pop can rotates and dumps the mouse into the water. mouse drowns. in the morning, you can dump the bucket and reset the trap - if bucket is big enough, you can catch upwards of ten mice per trap per night. will quickly rid you of an infestation. we use this at our hunt camp every year, and by the thrid night, we have no more mice.
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    03/16/09

    @gover57: ps, this trap works better than the snapping ones - you don't have to keep getting up throughout the night to reset the trap!
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    03/16/09

    @gover57:


    or you could leave the trap dry, so as not to condemn them to a half hour of fear and struggling before the drink gets em, and then just take em into the wild a bit and release em.


    I guess that's too much effort, when it's much easier to just kill them by torture.


    The least you could do is offer a QUICK death instead of this struggle-to-swim-for-a-half-hour-before-... contraption.

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    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    Sterilize


    EVERYTHING

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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    At least the cheese fell with him so he has a decent last meal before execution. (Wonders what a mouse would ask for as his last meal. Peanut Butter/Cheese pizza maybe. As far as that goes, I wonder what I would ask for as a last meal.....)
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    03/16/09

    @Curves: RTA. The little mouse gets to live out the rest of winter in a hamster cage.
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    03/16/09

    @Curves: I know exactly what I'd want for my last meal: a couple gallons of refried beans, heavily spiced with garlic, and a big ol' glass of Olestra to wash it down with. I figure there'll be a few people who will regret executing me. (Especially if they opt for the electric chair.)
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    03/16/09

    @FredicvsMaximvs: "I know exactly what I'd want for my last meal: a couple gallons of refried beans, heavily spiced with garlic, and a big ol' glass of Olestra to wash it down with. I figure there'll be a few people who will regret executing me. (Especially if they opt for the electric chair.)"


    Those refried beans will be refried all over again...

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    03/16/09

    @winshape: Yes, keep on believing in the lush hampster accomodations. ;) The guy probably just said that to keep the PETA Nazis off his back.
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    Image of David Reynolds David Reynolds
    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    Do Mice like peanut butter? I always thought they were picky about the things in traps. Sort of like the pixar movie but I'm sure that was a rat. Ratatouille! That's it! And It's hilarious that "ratatouilles" is in the Safari spell check...No love for Palpatine or Susan Sarandon, sadly.


    And not to be a frunt case but should it not be "Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, (b)AS(/b) It Meets Its Maker"

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    03/16/09

    @David Reynolds: No HTML support in post?! What is this?! The future?!
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    03/16/09

    @David Reynolds: Nope. No HTML support. AT ALL.
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    03/16/09

    @FredicvsMaximvs: Wow my bad...Can I blame it on the fact that I'm sick? No? I just fail.


    How embarrassing

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    03/16/09

    @David Reynolds: Ha! No worries. We all have our moments of dumb.
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    I know some of the freaks in Gizmodo would've used an automated Blend-Tech.


    -1 for misleading title!

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/16/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Or dropped it into an game controller themed bong/pipe.
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    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    I love the shot with the 7 flashes! Time to start shopping for a flash for my D40, I guess.
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    03/16/09

    @FredicvsMaximvs: ...not that you can plug a wired remote into a D40, however. Stupid Nikon. Time for a bit of IR remote + Arduino hackery...
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    I wouldn't know anything about having rodent infestations. I have two (seriously brain-damaged) cats who keep my home pest-free.


    One of the things about mice and rats is that they won't go in a home if they smell a cat there. Just having the cats keeps the mice away.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: There is a parasite that will infect a rodents brain which will reverse the panic response, and make them SEEK cat urine smells.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: While it is usually true that mice won't frequent a home with feline scent, my experience has been that rats could care less. Rats like cat food almost as much as peanut butter.
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    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!:
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    03/16/09

    @Scotland: Was the mouse trying to give that cat a blow job?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Here is a study on what I was talking about. Scarily, it can also infect people.

    [www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
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    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: On occasion, mice will be bold and venture for food anyway. No matter how many cats, a mouse will sneak in if you're bad about storing food. What they won't do is establish themselves within your walls. They'll just go on suicide missions to get what they can.
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    03/16/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: One of our cats wouldn't know what to do with a mouse if he could stir his big fat lard-ass enough to catch one.


    Of course, that means the other cat would be chowing down while the first one was still waddling across the room. All in all, I'm glad we don't have mice.

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    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    How did that flash not freak out the mouse?
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    03/16/09

    @gadam07: It did. That's why it's running away. Little buggers are quick.
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    hey, thats my toaster!
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    03/16/09

    @TexasRed: Frakkin toasters are everywhere!
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/16/09

    In reply to Crazy Wireless Camera Flash Setup Captures Mouse, None the Wiser, As It Meets Its Maker
    Amazing stuff, of course - but I hope he purposefully put the mice in his fancy pad to capture this. The next question is how we come up with a comparable trap for my kids who sneak into the kitchen in the middle of the night.
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    03/16/09

    @Monty: Tiger trap w/Punji sticks? Hey, once they start chipping in for groceries, THEN they can complain.
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    03/16/09

    @Monty: The houses I lived in as a kid usually had enough roaches in the kitchen to deter even the most determined midnight snacker.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    02/05/09

    In reply to Mousetrap Coffee Table Uses Its Victims For Fuel
    "And there you shall find a new definition of pain, as you are slowly digested over the course of a thousand days!"
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