Whats the last thing you killed?

[slickvic]

My son destroyed a chameleon yesterday in front of our house.

But, I had to end the life of a Monster sized CockaRoach in the bathroom last night. It was kinda exicting. He was lurking ontop of the doorway all big and bad.. his antennae were twitching about.

I knew i needed heavy artillery for this bad boy. a rooled up newspaper was not gonna work on this sole sized bug-beast.

I went out to the garage area and grabbed a can of Hot Shot Flying Insect killer.


I came back to the bathroom and he was still there. I gave him a quick zap and he fell to the ground. he ran around furiously trying to escape the poison i just laid on him.

he ran in to the cabinet then back out again. a couple times he came near me and i had to jump.

I gave him another zap and he started to slow down. this stuff is pretty poerful i thought to myself. he rooled onto his back and i knew it was over.

I had to smash him with a paper towel (just to be sure) then i put him in the toilet!


What was the last thing you killed?


-vic



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[Glen Miyashiro]

Last night, I smashed a giant African snail. Every time I see one, I pick it up and fling it down hard on the road or sidewalk to crack the shell. I know I probably can't make enough of a dent in the population to make a difference, but I try anyway.

[Albert]

Was an ant.

My relationship with the insect world is: stay off my body and I will leave you alone, get on my body and I will do my best to eliminate your existence.

I ain't the Dalai Lama, wasn't sent here to feel "compassion for all living beings". (And I wonder if he never swatted a mosquito, anyway?)

[kukui_nut]

Squished one of those 747 Cockroaches last night in my driveway.
Can't beat that satisfying "pop" when you slam one with your shoe. :p

[aleno]

Today i killed 14 flies. Not all at once but one at a time. I was sitting outside relaxing when all of a sudden I saw one land on the bench. I had to run in the house to get my fly swatter. When I got back there must have been five of them. I started swatting them but 2 got away and brought back reinforcements. Seems like I was at it for an hour before I gave up and went inside.

[helen]

I'm using the Roach motels to catch them. So far they don't even rate being a 737.

[pzarquon]

We recently 'fog bombed' my mom's house for fleas. There were plenty of survivors, though. More than a few roaches were taken out in the crossfire, despite not being the primary target.

Termites are starting to swarm, but they're a little harder to fight...

[adrian]

This morning, I also had to kill a roach. I entered the shower, and proceeded to turn on the water, when I saw this big roach hanging onto the showerhead. That was the worst awakening I ever had. I then proceeded to go and get the fly swatter and when I came back, I murdered that animal.

[kukui_nut]

Late last night I did one of those "one-handed, ninja moves" to squish a mosquito in mid-flight.
Secretly followed by my Bruce Lee quick-head-jerk to see if there was another one behind me...

[aleno]

I just killed a family of slugs by throwing then into the chicken coop. I really wish those slugs would leave my plants alone. I get plenty of grass and weeds but they seem to prefer all my other plants....LOL

[Glen Miyashiro]

A housefly. I'm perversely proud that I am fast enough to (sometimes) snatch a fly out of the air. Of course, that means that when I do, I get fly guts all over my hand. Maybe this isn't such a great skill after all. :p

[Mocha]

737...roach. Roaches are the one reason my daughter has no yearning to move back to Hawaii...where she lives in N CA. there aren't any visible roaches...I see ants by the dozens but no roaches.

[aleno]

Yep, I agree with mocha's daughter.....No way do I miss all those big roaches they seem to fly at ya when you least expect it. I live in N. CA also and haven't expirienced any roaches.
My worse fear was when they would fly out of the bushes and I would be talking and one would fly in my mouth....LOL.

[mel]

I killed some kind of black beetle that came flying into my apartment last night. It landed on my tape case and I smacked it with a rolled up MidWeek. Print media to the rescue!

[helen]

Co-worker sceamed when entering the restroom. Had turned on the light and something close to the light switch moved which turned out to be a 747 size roach.

The roach got stunned by a sneaker and fell in a handy trash can.

[aleno]

Aiya, I damned the creek to fill the pomd for the geese and killed the mosquitos fish below the dam.....

[kukui_nut]

1.73 million germs...
(Just used an antibacterial hand wipe)

[aleno]

So what Kukui....was it bad germs? hahahaha.

I decided to put out a fly trap and now get plenty flies stuck to them. I plan to put out a wasp trap soon. I'll let you know if it works.

[Leimamo]

Too bad this isn't titled: "What the next thing you want to kill?" I have a long list of names .. errrrm .... THINGS.

;)

[Timster]

http://www.casasarroyo.org/flowers/fauna/images/centipede.jpg

My worst nightmare in Mililani!

I stepped on the darn thing, and luckily I didn't get stung. Da buggah was AT LEAST 6"! No shizzle. I had the heebee-gee-bees after that.......I mutilated that buggah into multiple pieces.

[kukui_nut]

Oooo...
Centipedes = mostvilethingonearth


There's usually very few mosquitos in Kula, but with all the rain and this warm spell...Now Get Choke!!

(Pretty soon I going be forced to buss-out da HEAVY ARTILLERY (http://www.campmor.com/images/8900/larger/81316_l.jpg)!!!)

[slickvic]

Lol @ the heavy artillery.


I indirectly killed a rock crab this past weekend. we were feeding fish in the harbor behind the Ilikai. The crabs near the wall were grabbing bread as well.

A huge Puffer fish came and snatched a piece of bread with a crab attatched to it. He ate the bread, then came back ate the crab!

It was cool to watch. :)


-vic

[aleno]

I got this new type fly and wasp traps. You add water and break the vile inside the bag....oh wait...the wasp one you got to add apple juice...go figure...
I going try them tomorrow and let you guys know. I spent most of my day killing wasp on the fruit trees. The plums and pears are sttracting them right now but wait till the cherries and apples start to rippen, i'll be killing fo days.

[helen]

Too bad this isn't titled: "What the next thing you want to kill?" I have a long list of names .. errrrm .... THINGS.

;)

Nothing wrong with starting a new topic. Go for it!

[aleno]

Well the fly and wasp traps are working. The fly trap stinks but it does the job. Must have hundreds of dead flies right now. Not much wasp, they must be smarter.
mosquitoes haven't been out much, but maybe cause it's been so dry and hot. But kukui nut gots the right idea...heavy artillery...LOL.

[Leimamo]

I killed a friggen centipede yesterday. *flexing muscles and showing off the calabash bowl I used*

[aleno]

I'm applauding Leimamo's muscles....LOL. Not bad.....the calabash I mean.LOL

Well I took down one bag full of dead flies and replaced it. If i knew it was going to work this good I would have bought this type of fly trap 5 years ago. Only thing is it stinks. Smells really bad around it. Must be what attracts the flies.

[aleno]

I took down four more bags of dead flies. I decided to put up 12 more...lol.

[dick]

Not raise an issue here, but why is there a Star Of David on the chest of slickvic's cockroach animation?

As for killing things, I think the last thing I actually killed was some weird bug walking on the wall in front of St. Andrew's Priory as I waited for photos for the graduation the other night. It was like this humungous ant-like thing wriggling its way into my cameras which were on the wall out front. I already got a dead bug in my 35-70, I didn't need another.

Needless to say, Jainism came into mind.

I hope I only stunned it.

[aleno]

Driving home from dinner, I ran over a redish colored snake. He was in the middle of my lane and didn't move till I ran over him. I checked my rear veiw mirror and saw another car run him over too.

[slickvic]

Not raise an issue here, but why is there a Star Of David on the chest of slickvic's cockroach animation?


wow i didnt even notice! i did a search for an animated roach, and this dude popped up.

trips eh?

-vic

[admin]

Robbed of its context, I hadn't noticed either. Now that you point it out, the image is clearly an intentionally offensive caricature. This is a good example of one of the pitfalls of image searching... I shudder to think what kind of website that image was created for.

The safest bet? Only post images you own or created yourself. If you have to "borrow," be careful. (And it couldn't hurt to leave "animated" out, either... I've yet to see a good animated web graphic.)

[DaFerret]

My most recent? A pimple... dang thing's corpse is still present. Revenge I guess. But previously, the brave adventurer survived an attack of the giant mosquito in the dreaded bathroom during a shaving expedition. Caught it without squishing it and then submerged the beast under hot water and shaving creme. It floated to the top and twitched a couple of times before succumbing to death. I hastily completed my journey and removed all traces of my dastardly deed.

[aleno]

Today I found a nest of red ants in an old dead log which I decided to cut up and move. Dang things are hard to kill. Drowning didn't do the trick, so I used the can of black flag.

[dick]

Like I was saying - I wasn't trying to make anything out of that star thing, but I was like, looking at it, and was thinking "dude, that's a Star of David." I was like, "whoa, that's off the hook." I figured it was something taken from somewhere, so I never even thought that slickvic might be making a commentary (don't take me wrong). Admin mentioned something about being careful about taking other images, (and again, don't take this wrong slick- this isn't a slam on you at all) but as someone who works in intellectual property, I find that it's important for all of us to remember that whatever we find on the internet is actually copyrighted material and cannot be appropriated for our own use (unless it's indicated for such use -- again slick I don't know the whole story, so I'm not suggesting anything...). I often have reservations about my photos being posted on the internet, just because people will rip it and do whatever they want with it. Watermarks help to a certain extent, but I find that posting them small at a very low resolution will inhibit people from making prints. Often people don't realize that (and I'm speaking as a photographer) we earn our livelihood from producing images. It's like asking a doctor for a free diagnosis, or a carpenter to hammer a few nails -- ah, you got a few nails, just pound 'em in... People often wonder why photographers charge so much for their services... if they only knew how incredibly expensive it is to purchase the equipment, plus there's the whole creative thing, too. I love the whole, "Oh, you just take pictures" line. I laugh everytime. Yeah, come along when everyone is running the other way, and you're running to the disaster... or you have 20 minutes to photograph, edit, caption, AND transmit at least three photos that at least 65,000 people (oops! did I boost circulation??) will see tomorrow with your name underneath them.

Sorry, this went off on a wild tangent. Forgive me, it's been a long week.

[Mokihana]

Does it count if I didn't kill it but hundreds of other ones were? :eek:

My folks were getting our yard in Mânoa Valley sprayed for 747's and all other sizes; I was in my room. Came out to the kitchen but didn't notice the door was slightly open for the electric cord to come through.

Huge kamikaze 747 comes flying through the door, down the back of my shirt... there I was, shrieking and jumping all over. Read the full story here (http://alohaworld.com/cgi-bin/hanabuddah/display.cgi?display=1&record=23&starting_point=1&search%3D1%26display_all%3D1)


The only good thing about it was that so many of his family was killed.

[adrian]

I had to kill a mouse that was in our house for a few years.

When my Mom complained about something moving in the toaster oven, I took it to the lanai to investigate. When I saw a mouse (actually, its tail), I took it downstairs and called our house cat. She came, and I let her sniff the oven, looking for the mouse. She found it, and she "pawed" it out, letting it run around the corner, until I blocked it. Then I grabbed a slipper (one of those bumbucha slippers) and smashed it. It took a couple of hits, but I killed it. Our cat sniffed it, and went away, probably because she wanted to kill it.

I washed the toaster oven, threw away the foil inside, and scrapped the remains of the mouse into the drainage canal at the back of our house.

That was the biggest thing I had to kill so far.

[Serenity]

http://www.casasarroyo.org/flowers/fauna/images/centipede.jpg

My worst nightmare in Mililani!

I stepped on the darn thing, and luckily I didn't get stung. Da buggah was AT LEAST 6"! No shizzle. I had the heebee-gee-bees after that.......I mutilated that buggah into multiple pieces.

Dang.....
I wish I was brave enough to do the same thing.
I came accross the same one, when I was living at
my other apartment, I almost jumped out of my skin. :eek:
Got the broom, & the scooper, & scooped it up,
& tossed it out on the road,
& hoped that it would get runned over. :D

[mel]

I recently killed one of these (http://pested.unl.edu/amerroa.jpg).... again. :eek:

[Serenity]

I recently killed one of these (http://pested.unl.edu/amerroa.jpg).... again. :eek:

Good for you, mel!.
I figure, they are not a rare dying species.........
So, knock yourself, out!.........
you, & you, & you........:D

[exadent]

ho bra, :p was my old ladies gates bra

[Linkmeister]

Speaking of mice, we had one commit suicide inside the exhaust pipe for a Jenn-Air stovetop range and grill a while back. The fan quit working, and when we took it apart, the body was jamming the blades. Charming, and quite smelly. :eek:

[Serenity]

Does that count as the most recent?
- Well, my hubby & I went out to eat
for a saimin one night, next thing I knew,
I saw this gushy thing floating
on my soup, so I stabed it
with my chopsticks, then I
found out, it was just a
wunton. :o :D

[Mocha]

Had to kill a bambucha flying roach last night! Does anyone think that the flying roaches are getting braver...they just zing right into your face now! :eek:

[mel]

I hate the giant flying B52 roaches. All should be killed.

[helen]

Monday night I noticed a B52 (or 747) roach that seemed to have died of a natural causes. It wasn't smashed or anything but there was a small puddle of goo off to one side.

[mel]

A swift stomp with a slippah is a natural cause for a roach! :)

[helen]

Maybe it fell off a ledge and since it was too heavy to fly, it crashed on the floor.

Either that or an ant shot it. Saw a bunch of them going over the body.

This reminds me of a time when I was a student at UH Hilo many years ago. Seen three of those big red fire ants haul off a roach (not a big one at that) on it's back.

[adrian]

Last night, our downstairs kitchen was filled with roaches. My Mom and my brother sprayed the area and they came out, gasping for air.

The people who lived there before us didn't care to clean up, so the roaches lived there for a year.

Anyone knows a good extermination company that'll spray and get rid of the roaches once and for all? The hard part is that we're doing renovations to turn the area into a care home, and the only part that needs spraying is the kitchen.

[Serenity]

Speaking of bugs....
Can any one tell me how to get rid of
Roaches & Ants immediately without all that chemicals?.
I can safely say that when I say......
I am very much tired of all these ants & roaches
that keeps inviting themselves without the invitations!.
I am sure everyone here agrees with me.

[adrian]

Speaking of bugs....
Can any one tell me how to get rid of
Roaches & Ants immediately without all that chemicals?.
I can safely say that when I say......
I am very much tired of all these ants & roaches
that keeps inviting themselves without the invitations!.
I am sure everyone here agrees with me.
You can: using a slipper.
:D

[Serenity]

You can: using a slipper.
:D

eww.
Good answer, though.
My comeback answer is still the same--
eww.
den, i would havetuh klean unda neat my slippuh.
(lol) :D

[helen]

Could use roach traps. I don't know if they make traps for ants.

[Serenity]

Could use roach traps. I don't know if they make traps for ants.

I think they can...
Can make tiny ant traps...
The same way they breed rice cows....
How do you think we all managed to get rice milk?......
:D

[adrian]

Today, after we took knocked down a covering for a "backyard kitchen", my dad removed some brick tiles to get a tool. When he lifted the cover, he saw choke roaches. He quickly ran and get the Hot shot for roaches, and sprayed the buggers, but they went scatter all over the place. So me, my brother, my uncle and my dad started wacking all of the 3 dozen roaches that came out from the dirt.

We used hammers, nail pullers, small plywood, 2x4s, dustpans, and brooms to wack the roaches. I never knew killing roaches would be so fun! We just scanned the area for any roaches who popped their ugly heads, then WACK! We swept them into the dustpan and threw the contents into a garbage bag full of other debris.

Ho, da choke roaches we killed. I think we got a record for this place: about 3 dozen roaches.

[adrian]

Today, my younger brother killed a bombucha spider that was living in the same place where the roaches were housed (we put back the bricks to hold back the dirt).

Unlike what the cartoons depict, a spider doesn't spread its legs when its smashed with a hammer; it closed its legs around its body.

[helen]

Well to be fair Garfield usually uses a rolled up newspaper not a hammer.

[Karen]

Small rats, in rat traps. Two more in the last week.

[kimo55]

"Whats the last thing you killed?"

Well, while walking to the computer room here just now, I believe a short list would entail microbes, amoebas, and various and sundry other extremophiles.
(....that would be 'small things". NOT someone who likes to watch mulder and scully...

[helen]

Went to brush my teeth, when I came back to my desk I noticed a big roach on my chair. After a couple of failed attempts to stun it (well I was trying to smash it) with a towel, I managed to squish it with the towel and then bring the towel over the toilet to dispose of the remains. The roach was still alive and kicking, missed the toilet, went on the floor and went across the bathroom and managed to go into a roach motel.

Which I hope it doesn't escape or drags it with it to wherever it goes too.

[Miulang]

I killed a couple of fish in my salt water tank. Cooked 'em good because the water got too hot and thus decreased the oxygen in the tank so they suffocated. So now I have a fan trained on the tank, and whenever the water gets above 82 degrees, I have to chill the water down so my live sashimi can live happily ever after.

Miulang

[kamlost]

I think it was a worm. I leave killing roaches up to someone else. I hate them but I can't squish them.

[DeeCee]

Hey, it may not be much, but I must say I've become QUITE the expert fly-killer. The key is to think PAST the fly. Don't just aim for the fly, aim for the expensive candelabra he landed on.

My dog died of natural causes earlier this summer, but I know my wife is convinced it was my fault.

[adrian]

I killed a couple of fish in my salt water tank. Cooked 'em good because the water got too hot and thus decreased the oxygen in the tank so they suffocated. So now I have a fan trained on the tank, and whenever the water gets above 82 degrees, I have to chill the water down so my live sashimi can live happily ever after.

Miulang
LOL

I killed my sister's pet mouse (atleast she was trying to keep it as a pet, after she found it running around the kitchen) by smashing it with a box I was trying to move (the box was heavy, but when I saw that mouse, you can pick up anything repeatly and wack it multiple times).

The box was full of weight lifting equipment (barbells, weights for a weight machine) and when I looked at what I smashed, it was almost unrecognizable (but the tail was still intact).

[kimo55]

"Whats the last thing you killed?"

well, of course I can't know what the last thing is, cuz i haven't stopped killing!


hahahaaa.

[Mocha]

I didn't do it but my lab has "killed" several lizards...I notice more lizards that don't look alike in our yard and the dog thinks it's a game! Catch the lizard and watch it wiggle then fling it.

[Miulang]

Hey, it may not be much, but I must say I've become QUITE the expert fly-killer. The key is to think PAST the fly. Don't just aim for the fly, aim for the expensive candelabra he landed on.

ROFLMAO! Actually, I guess that's the only way you can kill dose buggahs! I mean, how many "eyes" dey get anyway? Ucka plenty! And den, dey get all dis kine hairs all ova da body dat can go sense changes in da air currents. So you using one of da major principals of physics--trajectory--to get da job done. So Zenlike, too (you not killing da fly...you killing da expensive chandelier, which is not alive). WTG!

I wen go find one "slippah" fly swatter up here. No good for use as one real swatter, but cute anyway...looks like one keiki slippah attached to one long stick.

Miulang