[new cruelty]

Like a duck in a noose.

Moose, is that you?

[cripplecreek]

like trying to lasso a snake ?

[LurkedLongEnough]

Hey, you blew my secret identity. :-|

I thought the phrase was kinda catchy. It gives a sense of having the bad guys -almost- caught, like when Chief Moose was on TV spouting what sounded like nonsense.

Then the DC snipers were trapped in circumstances similar to Sadaam Hussein, dirty, hardly awake, malnourished and undignified.