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    Bangladeshi Farmer Slaughters 83,000 Rats, and All He Got Was a Crappy 14-Inch TV

    The Hamster Rocket Is a Blast!

    Victor Mouse Trap Is Really an Electrocution Dungeon

    Rats! Rats! Rats! Devouring Employees Alive at XM
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    Image of EpiphyteCorp. EpiphyteCorp.
    10/02/09

    In reply to Bangladeshi Farmer Slaughters 83,000 Rats, and All He Got Was a Crappy 14-Inch TV
    What about the R.O.U.S.'s?
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    10/02/09

    @EpiphyteCorp.: I don't believe they exist.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/02/09

    In reply to Bangladeshi Farmer Slaughters 83,000 Rats, and All He Got Was a Crappy 14-Inch TV
    Someone call Mike Rowe. Dirty Jobs needs to go international for the next season..
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    Image of MrHaroHaro MrHaroHaro
    10/02/09

    In reply to Bangladeshi Farmer Slaughters 83,000 Rats, and All He Got Was a Crappy 14-Inch TV
    If I ever have a mouse problem I know who I'm calling. [MrHaroHaro is scared of mice, rats and squirrels if he looks at them long enough]
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    10/02/09

    @MrHaroHaro: Install one of these in your residence for protection from the furry tailed menace!
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    10/02/09

    @MIKERIOSISAWHORE.COM: A better rendition, and my all time favorite Giz post. [gizmodo.com]
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    10/02/09

    In reply to Bangladeshi Farmer Slaughters 83,000 Rats, and All He Got Was a Crappy 14-Inch TV
    I imagine it would take about, oh i dunno, 20 seconds average to kill a rat? lets call it 30 seconds with smoke breaks?

    so 83,000 rats = 41,500 minutes = 691 hours = 17.29 weeks of work @ 40 hours/week.

    that would net me here in the states around $9,200 - and for doing a job more than a little less unsavory and labor intensive at that.

    SO, is this guy being kind of ripped off, OR is he now the owner of what is officially the worlds most expensive 14" color television?
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    10/02/09

    @nutbastard: Maybe it's an OLED.
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    10/02/09

    @nutbastard: What's the minimum wage in Bangladesh?
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    10/02/09

    In reply to Bangladeshi Farmer Slaughters 83,000 Rats, and All He Got Was a Crappy 14-Inch TV
    "Bangladesh has a disgusting rat problem: It imports 3 million tons of food a year, and rats destroy 1.5-2 million tons of it."

    seems to me that the logical solution is to eat the rats. i mean, at least you know what the rats have been eating. hell you could even charge a premium - "Our Rats Are 100% Free-Range Corn Fed!"
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    Image of winkydink winkydink
    10/02/09

    @nutbastard: Evidently it's an idea that's just not catching on. [www.breitbart.com] Perhaps if they called them Bangladeshi Dwarf Sheep?
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    10/02/09

    @winkydink:

    nah i'd go with the inverse of 'long pig' and call them 'short rabbits'
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    01/30/09

    In reply to The Hamster Rocket Is a Blast!
    Hamsters in Spaaaaace!!!
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    01/30/09

    In reply to The Hamster Rocket Is a Blast!
    So....insert hamster in rocket...then insert hamster rocket in....
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    01/30/09

    In reply to The Hamster Rocket Is a Blast!
    Did you ever consider that hamsters probably hate hamster balls, and will hate this thing even more? If they really wanted to hang out with you, they wouldn't scurry away the moment you let them go. So instead, why not put them in a plastic claustrophobic container and toy with any hope they had of achieving freedom. This rocket thing doesn't even allow them to roll around as in the ball. They will just sit there in a rocket-shaped box that is much smaller and has worse circulation then their cage. Good job nature boys.


    (Only mostly sarcastic.)

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    01/30/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: How do you know hamsters hate hamster balls? Maybe they like to party just like everyone else..


    Heh.. and I bet you thought I was going to go for another type of ball joke...

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    01/30/09

    In reply to The Hamster Rocket Is a Blast!
    OK. Somebody alert frigg...
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    01/30/09

    @bosskev:... just the site of this thing is making me too giddy to even think straight!!!!!!! Can.... barely .... type....


    HAMSTER!!!!!


    SPACE SHIP!!!!!!!!


    HAMSTERSHIP!!!!


    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    /jumping up and down/ lying on floor with arms and legs waving in air/ jumping up and down again / knocking head against wall so excited... :D

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    01/30/09

    @bosskev: HAM-MOTHERFUCKING-STERS!!! /jumps pants jumps some more
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    Image of Gann Gann
    01/30/09

    In reply to The Hamster Rocket Is a Blast!
    All of our rodents had to earn their wings, parachuting from the second floor window to the ground 3 floors below (our house was on a slope, exposing the basement in the rear).


    They all lived.

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    01/30/09

    In reply to The Hamster Rocket Is a Blast!
    Hamster Rocket + Hamster = Hours of endless entertainment for our cat...
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    Image of PhilR8 PhilR8
    11/03/08

    In reply to Victor Mouse Trap Is Really an Electrocution Dungeon
    I need something like this for squirrels. One of my cats died and the other is old and just likes to sleep all day. In the meantime, the squirrels have taken over my driveway and like to chew on wires underneath my car. Grrr.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/03/08

    @PhilR8: Put some moth balls in your driveway where you park your car. Squirrels hate the smell and wont go near them. It works pretty well for most any kind of animal, who doesnt hate that smell, including moths.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    11/03/08

    In reply to Victor Mouse Trap Is Really an Electrocution Dungeon
    My boss lost one of these electric traps in his garage. The contacts corroded and a mouse started living inside of it. A mouse with an acute sense of irony.
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    11/03/08

    In reply to Victor Mouse Trap Is Really an Electrocution Dungeon
    Build a better mousetrap? Not that hard. Mice are curious and standard mousetraps are 90% effective in 24h. Build a better mouse trap for less than 2 for 99 cents? That's hard.
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    11/03/08

    @The Lab: NPR's This American Life actually had an interesting interview about just that topic with the folks from Victor where they basically said the same thing. Worth a listen just for the humorous ideas that get submitted to Victor by home inventors.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/03/08

    In reply to Victor Mouse Trap Is Really an Electrocution Dungeon
    EEWw, imagine having to empty it. Thats why I use poison pellets, in the hopes they wander off and die elsewhere and I dont have to deal with tiny mice corpses.
    (Peanut butter is the best bait.)
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    11/03/08

    @Curves: If you wire it up properly then you really only need to empty out ashes.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/03/08

    @Curves: My cat eats them, so basically I have a vastly superior vermin control system.
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    11/03/08

    @Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: I dont know if I have mice or not, if the poison pellet level drops, I blame "evaporation". When cleaning out the garage this summer, I wandered upon 2 dead mice on top of a roll of insulation. I carefully cleaned all around it, keeping my eyes averted, repeating to myself "Did not see, did not see" and then put everything back. Hopefully by the time I clean there again, they will have turned to dust. Yes, I know, its denial, but who says you have to face all of your fears. I am perfectly happy pretending it never happened.


    (My cat passed away, so I have a guest cat from the neighbors house cruise my yard a few times a week. Seems to work out well.)

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    11/03/08

    @Curves: Mouse eats poison pellet. Cat eats mouse. Cat 'turns to dust'.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/03/08

    @Gann Cats already dead; old age not poison. Guest cat is outside only.
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    Image of LesterGaze LesterGaze
    11/03/08

    @Gann:

    non-toxic to any animal that eats the deceased rodent, per the text on the box. the poison works by causing internal bleeding, and once the rodent has bled out from the inside, the poison degrades to the point of non-toxicity.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    11/03/08

    @LesterGaze: Thank you. I feel better knowing I am not poisoning cats too.
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