To: txflake
In Japan I encountered insecticide with a spray top that had a four-inch flip-up barrel. Awesome stuff (probably banned utterly in the States). You could send a stream thirty feet with pinpoint accuracy sort of sighting down the barrel like a little RAID bazooka.
The Japanese have the right approach to the problem (as well as six-inch long venomous centipedes and millipedes that raise welts when they walk on you). It crawls, it dies. One time I was sitting watching sumo with my landlord with four mosquitoes circling above. He giggles and produces this spray can and barely touches the top, not even in their direction. I'm thinking "what's that going to accomplish?" and then they all went into little death spirals and crashed onto the table in front of us. If it had been a cartoon you'd have heard their engines screaming. We were warned in dire terms that smuggling that back into the States would result in life in the Big House, but it would have been worth it.
To: Billthedrill
I have those centipedes, too. Trapped one under a glass couple weeks ago (despite their permanent nerve and skin damage upon stinging, they're astonishingly colorful and graceful), I'd sprayed him and waited for him to die, he never did. He recovered. I set him outside. Probably see him again.
87 posted on
10/01/2007 5:44:15 PM PDT by
txhurl
(Yes there were WMDs)
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