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AzzGab => Random => Topic started by: Laser on November 30, 2021, 12:26:15 PM
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Giant stinking rats invaded my front yard and chewed the hell out of my old Impala. The manifold hose was gutted. They even gnawed right through the battery. I woke up this morning hoping it was all a dream. Then I remembered the invoice for $500 in the trash. This is WAR.
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I have a relative that is an exterminator, rats are particularly pernicious: let me know if you want some pro-tips.
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I have a relative that is an exterminator, rats are particularly pernicious: let me know if you want some pro-tips.
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Peppermint oil sprayed like a flame thrower. Done. I am still waiting for my ultra sonic rat blaster. Scotty Kilmer recommends such. Those buggers just eat my plaster of paris mix like candy. Never a one has been caught in a Victor trap.
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Peppermint oil sprayed like a flame thrower. Done. I am still waiting for my ultra sonic rat blaster. Scotty Kilmer recommends such. Those buggers just eat my plaster of paris mix like candy. Never a one has been caught in a Victor trap.
Rats are diabolically more intelligent than mice which is why your Victor trap did not work. They are excellent at managing to steal the bait from traps without setting them off. My exterminator brother recommends that you "think like a rat" when setting these things up, essentially you are trying to force the rat to touch the trigger mechanism either by strategic placement of the trap OR by placing objects around the trap that will force the rat to do so. Still they are notoriously intelligent and are very wary about "new" situations, especially if you are hunting a particular one that has narrowly escaped previous efforts.
I do not know that Peppermint Oil is effective as a deterrent with rats, it certainly cannot hurt as it is non-toxic etc. Rats are similar humans in dietary tastes: FATS, PROTEINS and SUGARS rule their world, also they need SALT. A good maple-smoked bacon will hit all four targets for the average rat. They also have a fondness for starches which are merely complex SUGARS anyway, slightly fried potatoes might seem like a nice treat...
Yours are outdoor, I assume? Do be careful with the use of poison in that situation: you may miss the mark and kill the neighbor's dog/cat instead. In this case you need to figure out what the immediate food source is (I promise it is not your Impala, that is just a tasty extra treat for tooth-sharpening: Rodentia teeth keep growing if they don't regularly chew something to wear them down).
Also, are you absolutely CERTAIN it is rats? Squirrels and mice are also known culprits for chewing on wires and such inside vehicles. If there is a cache of acorns somewhere in there it is more likely a Tree-Rat than the nasty Ground-Rat. Check droppings; mice vs rat are easy to identify:
(https://co0069yjui-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Droppings.jpg)
If you are in a non-urban environment, have a spotlight and .22 scoped rifle: a night-time Rat Hunt can be tolerable provided you have a porch or something nearby and ready supply of beverages. You will want to bait the killing field, and likely your first hunt will be quite productive given that you are a good shot.
Don't flip the spotlight on and off, just leave it on and wait... your rats will magically appear eventually to feast on your very expensive bacon bait stations.
You might start preparing your victims for slaughter a few days in advance: set up feeding stations in spots conspicuous from your front/back-porch "blind."
A highly accurate scoped .22 caliber air rifle is better than gun-powder as it less likely to spook the rats.
If you are lucky you will get to see rat cannibalization, which is common! ~HAH!
Your other option is to discover where they are nesting and eliminate them there. I believe rat urine fluoresces under UV light (you might have to buy a chemical spray) and they sort of dribble urine constantly so the trail is easy to follow, and may also yield insight as to what they are eating besides your Impala.
That is your ultimate goal: discover what the FOOD SOURCE is that attracted them in the first place and eliminate that. Once that is done the rats will go elsewhere for their food, which is hopefully not a nearby neighbor's house or worse your house...
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Still they are notoriously intelligent and are very wary about "new" situations, especially if you are hunting a particular one that has narrowly escaped previous efforts.
STAND DOWN. Boss wants some still limber. And I've got research to complete, these things take time.
If you only knew the power of occult studies. Although since you seem to have become wondrously literate, perhaps you do.
Five bucks. For the vig. Cough it up, Muscles.
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Giant stinking rats invaded my front yard and chewed the hell out of my old Impala. The manifold hose was gutted. They even gnawed right through the battery. I woke up this morning hoping it was all a dream. Then I remembered the invoice for $500 in the trash. This is WAR.
I use this for rats and mice https://www.motomco.com/motomco/product/us/pest-control/jaguar-all-weather-bait-chunx
I used to use store bought stuff they sold everywhere but the EPA banned the ingredient that was in it. I kept buying some other brand from a farm supply store and they just kept eating it. So i called motomco up and they told me to use Jaguar (most powerful they sell). So i tried it and it seems to kill anything that eats it. I had a bad problem with ground squirrels so i started putting it out for them and it killed all of them. I am thinking about putting it out for grey squirrels now because fuck them too.
(https://www.motomco.com/images/products/us-baits/31410-Jaguar-Bait-Chunx-9lb.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa3lgb_5Aio
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Rats are diabolically more intelligent than mice which is why your Victor trap did not work. They are excellent at managing to steal the bait from traps without setting them off. My exterminator brother recommends that you "think like a rat" when setting these things up, essentially you are trying to force the rat to touch the trigger mechanism either by strategic placement of the trap OR by placing objects around the trap that will force the rat to do so. Still they are notoriously intelligent and are very wary about "new" situations, especially if you are hunting a particular one that has narrowly escaped previous efforts.
I do not know that Peppermint Oil is effective as a deterrent with rats, it certainly cannot hurt as it is non-toxic etc. Rats are similar humans in dietary tastes: FATS, PROTEINS and SUGARS rule their world, also they need SALT. A good maple-smoked bacon will hit all four targets for the average rat. They also have a fondness for starches which are merely complex SUGARS anyway, slightly fried potatoes might seem like a nice treat...
Yours are outdoor, I assume? Do be careful with the use of poison in that situation: you may miss the mark and kill the neighbor's dog/cat instead. In this case you need to figure out what the immediate food source is (I promise it is not your Impala, that is just a tasty extra treat for tooth-sharpening: Rodentia teeth keep growing if they don't regularly chew something to wear them down).
Also, are you absolutely CERTAIN it is rats? Squirrels and mice are also known culprits for chewing on wires and such inside vehicles. If there is a cache of acorns somewhere in there it is more likely a Tree-Rat than the nasty Ground-Rat. Check droppings; mice vs rat are easy to identify:
(https://co0069yjui-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Droppings.jpg)
If you are in a non-urban environment, have a spotlight and .22 scoped rifle: a night-time Rat Hunt can be tolerable provided you have a porch or something nearby and ready supply of beverages. You will want to bait the killing field, and likely your first hunt will be quite productive given that you are a good shot.
Don't flip the spotlight on and off, just leave it on and wait... your rats will magically appear eventually to feast on your very expensive bacon bait stations.
You might start preparing your victims for slaughter a few days in advance: set up feeding stations in spots conspicuous from your front/back-porch "blind."
A highly accurate scoped .22 caliber air rifle is better than gun-powder as it less likely to spook the rats.
If you are lucky you will get to see rat cannibalization, which is common! ~HAH!
Your other option is to discover where they are nesting and eliminate them there. I believe rat urine fluoresces under UV light (you might have to buy a chemical spray) and they sort of dribble urine constantly so the trail is easy to follow, and may also yield insight as to what they are eating besides your Impala.
That is your ultimate goal: discover what the FOOD SOURCE is that attracted them in the first place and eliminate that. Once that is done the rats will go elsewhere for their food, which is hopefully not a nearby neighbor's house or worse your house...
(http://www.azzgab.co.za/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=47.0;attach=62;image)
Definitely rats. One climbed out from under the hood while I was driving home one day, dancing on the windshield in front of me. Embarrassing enough, this could have been traumatizing for someone else, like say a Winston Smith. They must have been attracted by the scatter from a nearby bird feeder. That is now gone. The first engine part they craved and destroyed was the reservoir for that sweet pink washer fluid. The main colony though may be hiding in an old dilapidated shed. Several other properties nearby could be a source for their raiding. I have plans for poison, torture traps and Rube Goldberg machinery.
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Definitely rats. One climbed out from under the hood while I was driving home one day, dancing on the windshield in front of me. Embarrassing enough, this could have been traumatizing for someone else, like say a Winston Smith. They must have been attracted by the scatter from a nearby bird feeder. That is now gone. The first engine part they craved and destroyed was the reservoir for that sweet pink washer fluid. The main colony though may be hiding in an old dilapidated shed. Several other properties nearby could be a source for their raiding. I have plans for poison, torture traps and Rube Goldberg machinery.
I suspect your rats might be alcoholics; that washer fluid is usually watered down alcohol (and maybe antifreeze):
Wiper Fluid MSDS (https://www.49northlubricants.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/8700-8701-WHMIS-SDS.pdf)
It is usually blue not pink though, that is strange. Anyway, is there a source of mostly empty beer cans/bottles somewhere nearby? I wonder how they got a taste for booze. That's hilarious, not only do you have rats: they are drunks! That surely explains your dancing rat, I wonder if it was a stripper?
Hopefully, there is not a nearby meth-lab for them to partake from... a meth-head rat is probably both dangerous and unpredictable.
(https://images3.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED226/5f77248643f01.jpeg)
This thread is really starting to deliver!
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I suspect your rats might be alcoholics; that washer fluid is usually watered down alcohol (and maybe antifreeze):
Wiper Fluid MSDS (https://www.49northlubricants.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/8700-8701-WHMIS-SDS.pdf)
It is usually blue not pink though, that is strange. Anyway, is there a source of mostly empty beer cans/bottles somewhere nearby? I wonder how they got a taste for booze. That's hilarious, not only do you have rats: they are drunks! That surely explains your dancing rat, I wonder if it was a stripper?
Hopefully, there is not a nearby meth-lab for them to partake from... a meth-head rat is probably both dangerous and unpredictable.
(https://images3.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED226/5f77248643f01.jpeg)
This thread is really starting to deliver!
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We used to have a cat who would catch mice and bring them in the house to play with. He would also catch rats and drag them in half dead. They were very hard to kill because they would only play dead, then crawl away when no one was looking. Sort of like Rasputin. The current bunch might be their degenerate offspring. I miss that cat.
All the nearby meth labs I know of burned to the ground last summer. But my next door neighbour likes his lager and he still has an open compost pile.
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... Embarrassing enough, this could have been traumatizing for someone else, like say a Winston Smith... Rube Goldberg machinery.
(https://data.ibtimes.sg/en/full/49416/winston-boogie-smith.png?w=714)
I bet Winston Smith's son wouldn't have been traumatized by a rat. He would have busted a cap in that rat.
Just sayin'
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I bet Winston Smith's son wouldn't have been traumatized by a rat. He would have busted a cap in that rat.
Just sayin'
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Or just spat in its face.
(https://i.postimg.cc/xTWf7gg3/1984.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
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Or just spat in its face.
Or went Chuck Norris on it's ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHlSoTj69wg
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This is how they spend their day after chewing the guts out of trusty steeds.
https://twitter.com/Accjustsold/status/957436525259771904
I'm too sober to see a mouse taking a bath.
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(https://synchromiss.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/charlie-brown-rats.jpeg?w=350)
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The bastards are still gnawing at my entrails.
https://youtu.be/1eu0PtSdSNo
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The bastards are still gnawing at my entrails.
I just woke up from a prophetic dream; and now, I know who two of your spooky buddies are. And I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell anyone. Doxxing is not my area—and, it never was. (See? Look at me being discreet.)
These superpowers are awesome. I'm telling you. Say what you want about The End Times: for Me, they've been totesbadass.
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I just woke up from a prophetic dream; and now, I know who two of your spooky buddies are. And I'm not going to tell you. I'm not going to tell anyone. Doxxing is not my area—and, it never was. (See? Look at me being discreet.)
These superpowers are awesome. I'm telling you. Say what you want about The End Times: for Me, they've been totesbadass.
Skip would be an easy guess. The other one requires insight.
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Skip would be an easy guess. The other one requires insight.
Well, since I know, that precludes guessing. It's not a fun game for me to play, honestly. I prefer just wandering around in a daze, boots on the ground, head in the clouds, and if THE LORD wishes me to know who His Spooks are, well, here's what happens:
I wake up from a dream, and then I get told. That's it. That's the superpower. It's not something that can be harnessed, or exploited, or successfully worried about. If I need to know something, then I fuckin' find the fuck out. Somehow. It's been this way for me for years now. Actual decades.
That's just the way it is. Some things will never change. But don't you ever believe that I am interested in helping any of you Fuck-Os find out who your little fuckin' friends are. It's unnecessary. It's uncouth. It won't end well. It'll take you places where you simply... don't want to go.
Just ask Matt Smith. If anyone can even find him. Poor bastard. *click*
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The bastards are still
Five is a grand number.
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Skip would be an easy guess. The other one requires insight.
(https://i.postimg.cc/T20PxjR2/Skip.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
You could always go full PsyOp on them:
https://youtu.be/0u8teXR8VE4
Set up some speakers and blast that at 'em.
I believe this tactic had something to do with Noriega surrendering (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40090809) back in the day.
Nautical Shore?
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A relative of sorts recently pawned off on me a massive box of god-awful misshapen carrots. Plenty of carrot cake or whatever for the next few weeks or so, but what do I do with the rest to save them over the winter?
(https://i.postimg.cc/cJYMwz82/deformed-carrots-1080x810-202942193.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/1gmqZJBr)
Also 2 more boxes of tomatillos, which I have no idea what to do with.
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Too much of a good thing?
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A relative of sorts recently pawned off on me a massive box of god-awful misshapen carrots. Plenty of carrot cake or whatever for the next few weeks or so, but what do I do with the rest to save them over the winter?
(https://i.postimg.cc/cJYMwz82/deformed-carrots-1080x810-202942193.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/1gmqZJBr)
Also 2 more boxes of tomatillos, which I have no idea what to do with.
The carrots should last quite awhile in your fridge, I stick mine in one of the produce drawers. I find they keep longer than anything else, at worst they will wilt a little bit, but if you cut them up and stick them in some water for a while they usually crisp right up, although they tend to get a bit curly if they were really dried out.
They almost never rot, and when they do it is because something above them went south and the nasty rot-juice got on the carrots and got them going. If kept cool and dry I bet you could keep them in the fridge for a year?
As for the tomatillos, go buy some onions, limes, cilantro, and green peppers (mild-spicy depending on your taste) and make Salsa Verde out of them.
There's tons of Salsa Verde recipes out there: cooked and raw-grind. Mine is a cooked recipe, I can dig it out for you if you like? Otherwise just use your favorite search engine and look for some recipes. It is pretty basic, I have found that it freezes pretty well if you end up making a ton of it. Pro-tip: if you are freezing it do so in 1/2 or 1 cup containers.
I think it keeps for a week or so in the fridge before it starts to ferment... I have never tried canning it, but I imagine that is a possibility as well.
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https://youtu.be/XAqV9pFahsA
Too much of a good thing?
Carrots should know when to stop looking.
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The carrots should last quite awhile in your fridge, I stick mine in one of the produce drawers. I find they keep longer than anything else, at worst they will wilt a little bit, but if you cut them up and stick them in some water for a while they usually crisp right up, although they tend to get a bit curly if they were really dried out.
They almost never rot, and when they do it is because something above them went south and the nasty rot-juice got on the carrots and got them going. If kept cool and dry I bet you could keep them in the fridge for a year?
As for the tomatillos, go buy some onions, limes, cilantro, and green peppers (mild-spicy depending on your taste) and make Salsa Verde out of them.
There's tons of Salsa Verde recipes out there: cooked and raw-grind. Mine is a cooked recipe, I can dig it out for you if you like? Otherwise just use your favorite search engine and look for some recipes. It is pretty basic, I have found that it freezes pretty well if you end up making a ton of it. Pro-tip: if you are freezing it do so in 1/2 or 1 cup containers.
I think it keeps for a week or so in the fridge before it starts to ferment... I have never tried canning it, but I imagine that is a possibility as well.
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Merci beaucoup, Chef Pate. I was investigating more rustic methods at first such as sand or sawdust and even struggled with 60 lb. buckets of sand up from the shoreline. Then on further reading it was plainly suggested: NO RIVER SAND! Mais pourquoi pas? Tabernac! My paltry sized fridge will now be stuffed to the gills. The little green tomatoes should be an entertaining experiment in the offing. Strangely, I just don't think anyone in my near or distant family even knows what salsa is. C'est la vie.
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[...] even knows what salsa is. C'est la vie.
Some kind of dance for f*gs. Answers both (2) above.
be stuffed to the gills. The little green tomatoes
Blends well with fish. Don't get married to sardines; there's all manner of seafoods, packed like lemmings into tiny metal boxes, although lemmings don't pack themselves into boxes so I don't even know why I mentioned that, Sting was high that day... But you could blend up a tomatillo with mackerel, throw in a chipotle pepper, you wouldn't even know it came from the sea. Maybe.
Some kind of dance for fish.
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Some kind of dance for f*gs.
You don't want anyone/ anything/ any shit other than yours on this platform. We get it.
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You don't want
It's liberating. Try and see.
We get it.
Yes, I am certain that you do, you get it, you and your ilk.
shit other than yours
I claim no ownership.
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It's liberating. Try and see.
Yes, I am certain that you do, you get it, you and your ilk.
I claim no ownership.
Shit sticks where it deserves to be stuck and you are one deserving SOB.
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Shit sticks where it deserves to be stuck and you are one deserving SOB.
I'll second that. The man’s self-absorbed and beyond fucking measure.
I could go on ad infinitum concerning this.
How are people just now seeing this?
I yield back.
https://youtu.be/gzrRoDd9CxM
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Shit sticks where it deserves to be stuck
is this your hypothesis or your theorem?
I'll second that. The man’s self-absorbed and beyond fucking measure.
I didn't come here to be measured by you. You, and your ilk.
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is this your hypothesis or your theorem?
That is a corner store axiom, dudley.
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That is a corner store axiom, dudley.
you are one deserving SOB.
I'm hurt.
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https://youtu.be/lVgikAaoKtE
A relative of sorts recently pawned off on me a massive box of god-awful misshapen carrots.
>USE THE BOX OF CARROTS ON THE VIAL OF THE ANTIDOTE
I don't understand the word “the” there.
You're on your own.