On 2/24/2012 6:33 AM, Robert Green wrote:
"Steve wrote in message
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"Robert wrote

Didn't both fire ants and Formosan termites enter the country illegally
through NO?

--
Bobby G.


Fairly sure Formosan termites did, don't know about fire ants.

I wanted to say kudzu, too, and some sort of Chinese carp that's working its
way up the Mississippi River that leaps out of the water in the presence of
electrical current. I have a friend who specializes in invasive species and
I recall her saying that because of world commerce, there's been more
"transplanting" of non-native species in the last 200 years than there was
in the last 20,000 years. Ship's ballasts are notorious transporters of
out-of-town aquatic life. I recall Hawaii was determined to prevent the
island from being overrun with snakes the way IIRC Guam was. With no
natural predators, a snake invasion usually kills off all the birds in short
order. I wonder if that close inspection of cargo is still going on? I
recall they used dogs and some other sort of animal to sniff out shipping
crates and luggage. Not only do they come accidentally, some people try to
smuggle them in.

I never did get the snake owning thing. A while back we had a local man
arrested for leaving his two year old with a huge Burmese python that the
neighbors managed to get off the kid before he was crushed. The man's
response was typical of those owning chimps, lions and other pretty
dangerous animals: "He never hurt nobody before!" Fortunately, his very
nervous neighbors always kept a sharp eye on his yard, for obvious reasons.

There was just a case of some roadside "zoo" operator let loose his entire
collection before he killed himself. Since he blew his brains out, we'll
never know if he was a sociopath or a psychopath. He's just a crazy dead
fu&er now. So are most of his exotic animals.

--
Bobby G.


Do you recall what has happened with Zebra mussels which clog cooling
water intakes for industry and power plants on The Great Lakes? The
little critters arrived in ship's water ballast years ago.

TDD

"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message
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"Robert Green" wrote:
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The racoons, no matter how tightly they're jammed in there always exit as
soon as they get the chance. Opossums on the other hand have had to
hosed
out and pressed out. As the other poster noted, they seem to want to
make
the trap their new home.

Skunks are in no hurry to exit, either.

Thank God we seem to live in a skunk free zone, unlike our time in Rhode
Island, which seems to be the skunk capital of the US. I know they're
helpful critters but a thrice-skunked dog (a not so smart Samoyed-Collie mix
at the time) is pretty much all we could stand.

I'm not sure if the Fischer
or the cats have been the quickest to exit.


Even when any other creature would have left the trap under their own
power,
the opossums lingered until they were forced out. Brute force is not
something I like to do with critters that size (~20 lbs) that emit green
stinky goo when the fire ("the fire" is memory loss code for "they're
afraid"). )-:

I just prop the door open and come back in an hour or two.

Not these opossums. I kept checking back and checking back and finally,
after ten hours of waiting for the idiot to exit under his own power, I
hosed him out. I pushed the other out with length of 2 x 4 and he protested
every inch of the way. I think the second one was thinking about making the
trap his new den.

It's a pretty safe bet they're going to whiz on you or worse. Two year
old
tom squirrels with gonads as big as their heads can squirt some foamy
noxious ooze that probably is great for attracting female squirrels but
no
so good for getting on your clothes. I'm sure the reason squirrels
haven't
been hunted to extinction is that they probably taste as bad as they
smell.
The dog likes the scent, though. She'll lick and sniff every wire of the
empty crate when I bring it into the house.

You've got to stop bring crap into your house that doesn't belong
there.g

One good blast of green goo is a great learning tool. Those were the
"learning" days when we were relocating the little SOBs geographically. Now
we relocate them interdimensionally. Saves on gas and panicked escapes
within the van.

I shoot the damn squirrels right in the trap- rinse it off with a hose and
catch another the next day.

At the rate they show up here (6 a day in the spring) it would sound like
the OK Corral if I went blasting them. My neighbors are very sensistive
animal lovers so in deference to them, I transport them to the great oak
tree in the sky via an improvised cattle prod. No gore, no fuss, no noise,
no whizzing (well mostly - sometimes the cattle prod causes the old toms to
die in the saddle so to speak. If I had a suppressor for my pistol, I might
just pop them on the porch. It's a pain to have to put the trap in a bag
and drag it downstairs to send them on their way, but that's city living for
you. It's hard to shoot what you want when you want. (-:

Woodchucks are a little more wary

I've got a woodchuck that shows up often on the security IR cams, but never
in the trap. Either he doesn't like climbing the porch steps or he doesn't
like peanut butter. Or he's just a lot smarter than 'coons, possums and
tree rats.

--
Bobby G.

"The Daring Dufas" wrote in message
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On 2/24/2012 6:19 AM, Robert Green wrote:

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Shooting cats would probably get you jailed for illegal
discharge and animal cruelty. In some areas of the US, you can't do to
a
cat or a dog what you can do to your wife or kids.

--
Bobby G.


I've been thinking about starting a "Vermin Rights" movement. Rats are
people too or is it there are many people who are rats? Oh well, I'll
go back to watching the "Grimm" TV series. ^_^

TDD

I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to get a bill
passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat with her young.
Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's never a better time to get
the whole gang than when they're young. It's like "why NOT kick a man when
he's down? He'll never be closer to your feet!"

--
Bobby G.

Robert Green wrote:

One good blast of green goo is a great learning tool. Those were the
"learning" days when we were relocating the little SOBs
geographically. Now we relocate them interdimensionally. Saves on
gas and panicked escapes within the van.


"Learning experience?" Sometimes it's something else.

I recall in the days of my youth being on a Boy Scout camping trip. A
'diller wandered into the camp site and several of us gave chase. The
critter scooted into a tent and thence into a SLEEPING BAG containing one of
our fellow scouts!

Our supine scount awoke due to significant clawing on his lower legs and, in
a fit of adreniline-fueld strength, RIPPED the sleeping bag open! He was
bleeding from multiple scratches and covered with green armadillo effluent.

There was nothing for it but to put the sleeping bag in the fire. As for the
mentally shattered scout, after hosing him dow with ice-cold water, one of
the advisors bundled him up and took him to the emergency room for a tetnus
shot and a mental health examination.

The armadillo scurried off into the night.

Robert Green wrote:

There was just a case of some roadside "zoo" operator let loose his
entire collection before he killed himself. Since he blew his brains
out, we'll never know if he was a sociopath or a psychopath. He's
just a crazy dead fu&er now. So are most of his exotic animals.

While visiting a client in Rapid City, SD, they took me over to Mt Rushmore.
On the way, we passed a roadside zoo. The client told an interesting story:

It seems the roadside zoo has a lion. About once a month the lion gets out
of his pen and sits on the side of the highway watching the cars pass by.
Freaked-out tourists jam the emergency service with calls and the local
radio stations put out a "Lion Alert!"

Presently the lion's owner confronts the lion, telling him to get back
inside, and the lion reluctantly sulks back to his pen.

The "Lion Alert" is canceled.

On 2/24/2012 1:00 PM, Robert Green wrote:
"The Daring wrote in message
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On 2/24/2012 6:19 AM, Robert Green wrote:

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Shooting cats would probably get you jailed for illegal
discharge and animal cruelty. In some areas of the US, you can't do to
a
cat or a dog what you can do to your wife or kids.

--
Bobby G.


I've been thinking about starting a "Vermin Rights" movement. Rats are
people too or is it there are many people who are rats? Oh well, I'll
go back to watching the "Grimm" TV series. ^_^

TDD

I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to get a bill
passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat with her young.
Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's never a better time to get
the whole gang than when they're young. It's like "why NOT kick a man when
he's down? He'll never be closer to your feet!"

--
Bobby G.


He must have been a pro-life Republican. ^_^

TDD

On 2/23/2012 10:55 AM, Robert Green wrote:
"Robert wrote in message
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The most effective, and probably most dangerous, is throwing a cup of
gasoline on the nest. I didn't do that, but watched the critters fall
straight to the ground, no flying, no swarming, DEAD, straight to the
ground. Then, watched as the nest was scooped up, and burnt.

While I am clearly of the opinion "what makes them deadest the fastest is
the bestest" I might try that on ground nesting bees and wasps, but not on
my house. (-:

--
Bobby G.




That works well for ground bees. Pour in a little gas and wait 10 mins.
or so. Evidently a distress signal is sent out and a majority of the
nest comes home. Set it alight with a lit paper towel on a stick. In a
few days there is no activity at all.

Any still coming back while its still burning will actually fly into the
flames to try and save the nest, brave little suckers.

John

The Daring Dufas wrote:

I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to
get a bill passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat
with her young. Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's
never a better time to get the whole gang than when they're young. It's
like "why NOT kick a man when he's down? He'll never be closer
to your feet!" --
Bobby G.


He must have been a pro-life Republican. ^_^


No, it's just common sense. It's similar to the rule of putting stumbling
blocks in the path of the blind. It wouldn't do any good to put the
stumbling blocks in the path of someone who could actually SEE them, now
would it?

Duh.

On 2/25/2012 7:02 AM, HeyBub wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:

I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to
get a bill passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat
with her young. Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's
never a better time to get the whole gang than when they're young. It's
like "why NOT kick a man when he's down? He'll never be closer
to your feet!" --
Bobby G.


He must have been a pro-life Republican. ^_^


No, it's just common sense. It's similar to the rule of putting stumbling
blocks in the path of the blind. It wouldn't do any good to put the
stumbling blocks in the path of someone who could actually SEE them, now
would it?

Duh.



Um, HB, who are you responding to? o_O

TDD

"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Robert Green wrote:

One good blast of green goo is a great learning tool. Those were the
"learning" days when we were relocating the little SOBs
geographically. Now we relocate them interdimensionally. Saves on
gas and panicked escapes within the van.


"Learning experience?" Sometimes it's something else.

I recall in the days of my youth being on a Boy Scout camping trip. A
'diller wandered into the camp site and several of us gave chase. The
critter scooted into a tent and thence into a SLEEPING BAG containing one
of
our fellow scouts!

Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Having had a squirrel in the
"relocation program" escape his carrier inside the van, I can sympathize
with that scout. Being inside any sort of closed container, van or sleeping
bag, with a terrorized critter doesn't often lead to a happy ending. Before
perfecting the cattle prod technique for interdimensional transport, one
squirrel that I didn't realize was soaked with car starter spray ether I
used to keep him sedated, ignited into a huge ball of fire when given the
coup de grace with the prod. After that I modified the prod so that the
probes fit through the trap wire mesh and ether wasn't required.

My New Englander wife told me that soaking a cage full of rats in gasoline
and setting them on fire was a popular technique with Boston industrial
arsonists. They would use live traps to acquire a dozen or so and then soak
their fur with gasoline. Within seconds of being released (on fire) the
rats would scurry to the far corners of any building they were released in,
creating multiple points of ignition and leaving very little obvious
evidence for arson investigators.

Our supine scount awoke due to significant clawing on his lower legs and,
in
a fit of adreniline-fueld strength, RIPPED the sleeping bag open! He was
bleeding from multiple scratches and covered with green armadillo
effluent.

Armadillos shoot green goo, too? Boo! Just more to be thankful for - we
don't have skunks OR armadillos around here. Hope it stays that way
although my wife tells me that we've been upgraded (downgraded?) to a
different and warmer climate zone for growing in the last ten years by the
Department of Agriculture. Our heating bill is less than half what it was
last year. Hopefully this summer the cooling bill won't be twice what it
was last year. Hopefully the warmer weather won't mean that creatures that
plague mostly the warmer southern states won't be moving north. The very
warm winter we've had has already had critter consequences. Stink bugs are
all over the place which is very unusual for February.

Saw another good exterminator trick tonight: the exterminator used rotting
food he food in a dumpster in the rat-plagued area as bait claiming that
they are much more likely to go after "familiar" food that his normal peanut
butter bait. In this case it was old beef jerky. Every trap had a dead rat
in it. He claimed the job was done, but I wouldn't make that assumption if
every trap was filled. I'd guess that there were still more "customers" who
weren't able to find an empty trap. I'd consider the problem solved when
most baited traps came up empty, not after the first round of baited traps
came up 100% full. At least these rats (in downtown Chicago) didn't have
giant cockroaches stealing the bait before the rats could get to it.

After collecting all the full traps with his bare hands, all the while
talking about the diseases they carried, he cordially shook the hand of his
female client. Ewww! Also him go after the worst bat infestation in an
attic I have ever seen. The guano in the attic was several inches deep and
the bat **** was leaking through the ceiling of the living room. There were
100's of them in the attack in a number of different "colonies" at the peak
of the roof and all along the eaves. They relocated them in a rather
arduous process. I would have gone for the shop vac . . . Beneficial or
not, I don't live in their homes. I expect reciprocation!

--
Bobby G.

The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 2/25/2012 7:02 AM, HeyBub wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:

I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to
get a bill passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat
with her young. Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's
never a better time to get the whole gang than when they're young.
It's like "why NOT kick a man when he's down? He'll never be
closer to your feet!" --
Bobby G.


He must have been a pro-life Republican. ^_^


No, it's just common sense. It's similar to the rule of putting
stumbling blocks in the path of the blind. It wouldn't do any good
to put the stumbling blocks in the path of someone who could
actually SEE them, now would it?

Duh.



Um, HB, who are you responding to? o_O


Actually, Robert Green when he observed kicking a man when he's down is
preferable to kicking him when he's up.

Sorry for the confusion.

"The Daring Dufas" wrote in message
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On 2/24/2012 1:00 PM, Robert Green wrote:

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I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to get a
bill
passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat with her young.
Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's never a better time to
get
the whole gang than when they're young. It's like "why NOT kick a man
when
he's down? He'll never be closer to your feet!"

--
Bobby G.


He must have been a pro-life Republican. ^_^

Damn. You asked a pertinent question. Now I *have* to look it up. (-:

http://nation.foxnews.com/rat-infest...-relocate-rats

Cuccinelli said D.C.'s new rat law--the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010
(Wildlife Protection Act of 2010.pdf) --is "crazier than fiction" because it
requires that rats and other vermin not be killed but captured, preferably
in families; no glue or snap traps can be utilized; the rodents must be
relocated from where they are captured; and some of these animals may need
to be transferred to a "wildlife rehabilitator" as part of their relocation
process.

I am not sure this ever became law. There was a firestorm of criticism
about the provision to keep rat families together for relocation.

On 2/26/2012 4:58 AM, HeyBub wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 2/25/2012 7:02 AM, HeyBub wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:

I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to
get a bill passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat
with her young. Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's
never a better time to get the whole gang than when they're young.
It's like "why NOT kick a man when he's down? He'll never be
closer to your feet!" --
Bobby G.


He must have been a pro-life Republican. ^_^


No, it's just common sense. It's similar to the rule of putting
stumbling blocks in the path of the blind. It wouldn't do any good
to put the stumbling blocks in the path of someone who could
actually SEE them, now would it?

Duh.



Um, HB, who are you responding to? o_O


Actually, Robert Green when he observed kicking a man when he's down is
preferable to kicking him when he's up.

Sorry for the confusion.



Bobby can have that effect on some folks. ^_^

TDD

On 2/26/2012 7:44 AM, Robert Green wrote:
"The Daring wrote in message
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On 2/24/2012 1:00 PM, Robert Green wrote:

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I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to get a
bill
passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat with her young.
Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's never a better time to
get
the whole gang than when they're young. It's like "why NOT kick a man
when
he's down? He'll never be closer to your feet!"

--
Bobby G.


He must have been a pro-life Republican. ^_^

Damn. You asked a pertinent question. Now I *have* to look it up. (-:

http://nation.foxnews.com/rat-infest...-relocate-rats

Cuccinelli said D.C.'s new rat law--the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010
(Wildlife Protection Act of 2010.pdf) --is "crazier than fiction" because it
requires that rats and other vermin not be killed but captured, preferably
in families; no glue or snap traps can be utilized; the rodents must be
relocated from where they are captured; and some of these animals may need
to be transferred to a "wildlife rehabilitator" as part of their relocation
process.

I am not sure this ever became law. There was a firestorm of criticism
about the provision to keep rat families together for relocation.


You do realize that I was being fecestious[sic] ^_^

TDD

"HeyBub" wrote in message
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The Daring Dufas wrote:

I am too lazy to look it up but recently a DC legislator tried to
get a bill passed that said you couldn't exterminate a mother rat
with her young. Really. I don't think it ever passed. There's
never a better time to get the whole gang than when they're young. It's
like "why NOT kick a man when he's down? He'll never be closer
to your feet!" --
Bobby G.


He must have been a pro-life Republican. ^_^


No, it's just common sense. It's similar to the rule of putting stumbling
blocks in the path of the blind. It wouldn't do any good to put the
stumbling blocks in the path of someone who could actually SEE them, now
would it?

Reminds me of the old grade school joke. How did Helen Keller's mom punish
her? By rearranging all the furniture. groan

--
Bobby G.

"Robert Green" wrote:
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Damn. You asked a pertinent question. Now I *have* to look it up. (-:

http://nation.foxnews.com/rat-infest...-relocate-rats

Cuccinelli said D.C.'s new rat law--the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010
(Wildlife Protection Act of 2010.pdf) --is "crazier than fiction" because it

And of course by now everyone has looked at the law and gotten as far
as p1, Sect 2, par. 5. . . where they exempt "Commensal rodents"

So they are idiots for not saying rats and mice, but it is pretty
plain that they did not intend to protect them.

-snip-

I am not sure this ever became law. There was a firestorm of criticism
about the provision to keep rat families together for relocation.

By some political opportunists and some starved for attention media
whores.

Jim

"Jim Elbrecht" wrote in message
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"Robert Green" wrote:
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Damn. You asked a pertinent question. Now I *have* to look it up. (-:


http://nation.foxnews.com/rat-infest...orces-extermin
ators-relocate-rats

Cuccinelli said D.C.'s new rat law--the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010
(Wildlife Protection Act of 2010.pdf) --is "crazier than fiction" because
it

And of course by now everyone has looked at the law and gotten as far
as p1, Sect 2, par. 5. . . where they exempt "Commensal rodents"

So they are idiots for not saying rats and mice, but it is pretty
plain that they did not intend to protect them.

-snip-

I am not sure this ever became law. There was a firestorm of criticism
about the provision to keep rat families together for relocation.

By some political opportunists and some starved for attention media
whores.

Jim

I Mirandize all squirrels before interdimensional relocation as a result. I
ask each and every one if they are residents of DC, entitled to legal
protection. So far, they've all stood relatively mute. I've even appointed
tne dog to be their public defender. Can't ever be to safe when it comes to
"Rodent Rights." (-: BTW, I am sure most DC residents (based on past
experience) believe that "commensal" means they have their periods at the
same time.

--
Bobby G.

On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.

wrote in message
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have
to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was
SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

Oh, I can think of some other things I've seen around dinner time more
offensive than rats. There's some animal planet show where they cut open
huge pythons, lions and other animals. Mike Rowe crawling through the San
Francisco sewers on "Dirty Jobs" was about the worst I can recall. Rats,
roaches that got down the back of his shirt, unknown things slithering in
the waste water, piles of turds (some orange in color leading the sewer
worker to exclaim "steady diet of Cheetos"), etc. When I see something like
that, I thank God that people were created with all sorts of talents. If I
had to maintain city sewers, they wouldn't be maintained.

My journalism prof was fired from a job as managing editor on a newspaper
because he ran a picture on page 1 of the morning edition of a fireman
yanking a giant python out of a toilet. The publisher thought it was in
very poor taste for a morning daily newspaper, as did about a thousand
readers.

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.

I was watching some History Channel special on WWII in the Pacific and they
were showing full color movies of rotting Japanese corpses in various states
of decay and destruction. It was breakfast time, too.

Billy's carelessness and lack of proper precautions remind me of Steve
Irwin, the Croc Hunter. You always knew it was going to end badly for
Irwin. I get the same feeling with Billy. My MD told me that if even if
you aren't allergic to bees to begin with, you can become so severely
allergic after a serious attack (Billy's had a few already) that you can die
if you get stung by a lot of bees and don't have an epi pen handy.

--
Bobby G.

On 2/28/2012 12:30 AM, Robert Green wrote:
....

and here's what happens if you try to shoot racoons in your hav-a-hart

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...-raccoon.html?

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:15:17 -0700, chaniarts
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 12:30 AM, Robert Green wrote:
...

and here's what happens if you try to shoot racoons in your hav-a-hart

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/art...-raccoon.html?


Wasn't his day. I'd like to know what kind of trap he's using that
will reverse a 22 bullet at point blank. I'll bet there was
something hard *behind* that trap.

I've never had a ricochet with my pellet gun, but then there isn't a
lot of power left once it goes through a skull.

Jim

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

TDD

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:39:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

Democrats.

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

http://www.whitehous.gov/

On 2/28/2012 12:57 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:39:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

Democrats.

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

http://www.whitehous.gov/

You messed up the link, you misspelled whitehouse, you left off the "e"
on the end. ^_^

TDD

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:36:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 12:57 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:39:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

Democrats.

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

http://www.whitehous.gov/

You messed up the link, you misspelled whitehouse, you left off the "e"
on the end. ^_^

Good point. Democrats would never have figured that out.

TDD

On 2/28/2012 6:35 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:36:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 12:57 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:39:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

Democrats.

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

http://www.whitehous.gov/

You messed up the link, you misspelled whitehouse, you left off the "e"
on the end. ^_^

Good point. Democrats would never have figured that out.


Oh come on, Democrats aren't stupid. Evil, demented, vile, bizarre and
megalomaniacal but not stupid. I love my Democrat friends and cousins,
they're almost as entertaining as little children. ^_^

TDD

"HeyBub" wrote in message
m...
Robert Green wrote:

There was just a case of some roadside "zoo" operator let loose his
entire collection before he killed himself. Since he blew his brains
out, we'll never know if he was a sociopath or a psychopath. He's
just a crazy dead fu&er now. So are most of his exotic animals.

While visiting a client in Rapid City, SD, they took me over to Mt
Rushmore.
On the way, we passed a roadside zoo. The client told an interesting
story:

It seems the roadside zoo has a lion. About once a month the lion gets out
of his pen and sits on the side of the highway watching the cars pass by.
Freaked-out tourists jam the emergency service with calls and the local
radio stations put out a "Lion Alert!"

Presently the lion's owner confronts the lion, telling him to get back
inside, and the lion reluctantly sulks back to his pen.

The "Lion Alert" is canceled.

Must have been a male lion. FWIW, they are mostly only a danger to lion
cubs sired by another male or a nomadic male trying to horn in on their
pride. Otherwise, it's the females that do that hunting and killing, but
the males that get fed first and then mostly sleep, screw and roar. You
have to pay the males a surcharge to kill tourists. It's just not in their
job description and the Lion's Union pays close attention to excursions.

--
Bobby G.

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:42:55 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 6:35 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:36:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 12:57 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:39:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

Democrats.

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

http://www.whitehous.gov/

You messed up the link, you misspelled whitehouse, you left off the "e"
on the end. ^_^

Good point. Democrats would never have figured that out.


Oh come on, Democrats aren't stupid. Evil, demented, vile, bizarre and
megalomaniacal but not stupid. I love my Democrat friends and cousins,
they're almost as entertaining as little children. ^_^

Evil and stupid aren't exclusive. You seem to even think they're human.
amazed look

On 2/29/2012 7:54 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:42:55 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 6:35 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:36:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 12:57 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:39:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

Democrats.

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

http://www.whitehous.gov/

You messed up the link, you misspelled whitehouse, you left off the "e"
on the end. ^_^

Good point. Democrats would never have figured that out.


Oh come on, Democrats aren't stupid. Evil, demented, vile, bizarre and
megalomaniacal but not stupid. I love my Democrat friends and cousins,
they're almost as entertaining as little children. ^_^

Evil and stupid aren't exclusive. You seem to even think they're human.
amazed look


Of course they're human and we need Democrats and Republicans or
whichever political party or parties you don't like. It keeps everyone
on their toes and not able to get away with anything too nefarious. ^_^

TDD

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:10:47 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/29/2012 7:54 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:42:55 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 6:35 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:36:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 12:57 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:39:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

Democrats.

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

http://www.whitehous.gov/

You messed up the link, you misspelled whitehouse, you left off the "e"
on the end. ^_^

Good point. Democrats would never have figured that out.


Oh come on, Democrats aren't stupid. Evil, demented, vile, bizarre and
megalomaniacal but not stupid. I love my Democrat friends and cousins,
they're almost as entertaining as little children. ^_^

Evil and stupid aren't exclusive. You seem to even think they're human.
amazed look


Of course they're human and we need Democrats and Republicans or
whichever political party or parties you don't like. It keeps everyone
on their toes and not able to get away with anything too nefarious. ^_^

That was true forty years ago, before the Democrats went over the left edge
into the hate-America-first universe.

On 2/29/2012 8:54 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:10:47 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/29/2012 7:54 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:42:55 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 6:35 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:36:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/28/2012 12:57 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:39:58 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 2/27/2012 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:45:09 -0500, "Robert Green"
wrote:

Courtesy of A&E's "Billy the Exterminator" (what does bug killing have to
do with the "arts"?)

He was hired to kill rats in a Louisiana soup kitchen. The situation was SO
bad that giant cockroaches were eating the peanut butter off the traps

You would have to mention that goddamn program......

Just this past weekend I went to the local bar and grill and was
enjoying a good dinner, when I looked at the tv on the wall and see that
"Billy the Exterminator" guy grabbing a rat by the tail from on top of a
light fixture. I almost puked right there on the table. Just then the
waitress came over and asks me if everything is ok. I said "NO". She
asked what was wrong, when I told her that the food was good, but if she
did not change the tv program, that I was gonna vomit all over the place
and would never come back. She asked what I'd like to see on the tv, I
said "*anything* except disgusting rats".

She immediately changed the channel to some basketball game, and came
back and asked me if that was ok. I thanked her and handed her a tip.
I told her "Rats are just some of he most disgusting things on earth,
and I sure the hell dont want to have to see them when I'm eating
dinner"! She agreed with me and said that the tv is always on and most
of the time no one pays attention to the programs. I grinned and said
"just leave it on a sports channel and you'll be pretty safe". She
laughed.


Well darn, I thought pro basketball players are just some of the most
disgusting things on earth. ^_^

Democrats.

http://www.dennisrodman.com/

http://www.whitehous.gov/

You messed up the link, you misspelled whitehouse, you left off the "e"
on the end. ^_^

Good point. Democrats would never have figured that out.


Oh come on, Democrats aren't stupid. Evil, demented, vile, bizarre and
megalomaniacal but not stupid. I love my Democrat friends and cousins,
they're almost as entertaining as little children. ^_^

Evil and stupid aren't exclusive. You seem to even think they're human.
amazed look


Of course they're human and we need Democrats and Republicans or
whichever political party or parties you don't like. It keeps everyone
on their toes and not able to get away with anything too nefarious. ^_^

That was true forty years ago, before the Democrats went over the left edge
into the hate-America-first universe.

Yin-Yang, good and evil are necessary for the universe to be in balance.
We have to have something to use to terrify children with to
get them to behave thus Democrats are necessary in a properly
functioning society. There must be an evil enemy who can destroy the
country in order to keep everyone focused on obtaining prosperity and
keeping it. ^_^

TDD

The Daring Dufas posted for all of us...

And I know how to SNIP


Of course they're human and we need Democrats and Republicans or
whichever political party or parties you don't like. It keeps everyone
on their toes and not able to get away with anything too nefarious. ^_^

TDD


Look at the voter turnouts vs population. I think most Americans are asleep.
Whether that is because they work so much to pay their taxes I will leave to
another discussion.

Now that assistance rates are soaring were do the taxpayers sign up to get one?
If you are paying for person then may as well have them work for you.

--
Tekkie

On 3/1/2012 10:36 AM, Tekkie® wrote:
The Daring Dufas posted for all of us...

And I know how to SNIP


Of course they're human and we need Democrats and Republicans or
whichever political party or parties you don't like. It keeps everyone
on their toes and not able to get away with anything too nefarious. ^_^

TDD


Look at the voter turnouts vs population. I think most Americans are asleep.
Whether that is because they work so much to pay their taxes I will leave to
another discussion.

Now that assistance rates are soaring were do the taxpayers sign up to get one?
If you are paying for person then may as well have them work for you.


I've been told I qualify for all sorts of free crap because I'm disabled
and can't hold down a normal job. I don't now nor have
I ever received any kind of government assistance check or food
stamps. Heck, it's been over 30 years since I last drew any kind
of unemployment. I work as hard as I can when I can, the rest of
the time I feel like I've been run over by a heard of elephants
but I deal with the pain. When I hear someone say they can't find
a job, I want to slap them cross eyed. If I advertized or went out
looking for work I could work around the clock. I can't sit on my
butt and do nothing, I'll die if I do that. o_O

TDD