OT: Toy, Toilet & Critter Destruction

AndyC · October 08, 2003, 10:20:59 AM

ASHTHECAT wrote:
> I can just imagine if they could talk.
>
> They'd be screaming, "Look out!! Here it comes!! Emergency
> stations!!!

Reminds me of last year, when I fumigated the house for fleas (the people we bought it from were pigs). I hate using chemicals, but everything else failed. I was watching through the front window as the little cans started going off, spewing permethrin in a billowing plume right up to the ceiling. I couldn't help but think that from a flea's point of view, it would probably look like a nuclear attack. Not a bad analogy, when you think of it. I was pretty amazed by the dead spiders, flies, and big male mosquitoes lying around afterward that I wasn't even aware of. Haven't seen a flea since, by the way.

I used to be quite creative at hunting bugs with whatever was at hand. One time, a spider scurried across the counter while I was in the bathroom. I grabbed the hairspray, and gave him a shot of it. It was really interesting to watch the thing continue to run, then gradually slow down and harden up.

We also used to have these really disgusting centipedes at my old office. Every once in a while, we'd see one in the downstairs kitchen. These things looked almost like a spiny feather moving rhythmically across the floor, and were almost too big to grab with a Kleenex. It's almost hard to believe they're from this planet. We were jokingly blaming them on the local chemical plant. Anyway, I spotted one going across the counter, and made kind of a clumsy swat at it. It took off, and managed to crawl down a gap between the backsplash and one of the mortar joints of the block wall. I grabbed the bottle of dish soap from beside the sink, shoved the point right up to the gap, and squeezed as hard as I could. Probably sent a quarter of the bottle down after him.

Can't say I ever built anything like old sparky, but I used to mess around with transformers and old electronic parts as a kid. Blown circuit breakers were not unheard of around our house. I still have a pair of needle-nosed pliers somewhere with copper melted into them.

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raj · October 08, 2003, 03:11:45 PM

And today you & your friend would be expelled from school & prosecuted as terrorists. Hell, I would be too for bringing in just a squirt gun.

Flangepart · October 08, 2003, 05:54:18 PM

"Ol sparky sounds like a McGiver . Thats one kick ass stun gun!
Blowing up models, i learned from The Goule. "Camera 4!" would zoom in on a model car, and the Gould "Made with the boombooms!"
Once made a bazooka with a drain pipe, and a model rocket....not much accuracy, but they laughed their Cleveland butts off.

JohnL · October 09, 2003, 12:59:15 AM

>I used to be quite creative at hunting bugs with whatever was at hand.

I once used oven cleaner on some wasps in the attic. It didn't kill them right away but they sure didn't like it. I had to use oven cleaner because we didn't have any brake cleaner handy.

wickednick · October 09, 2003, 02:04:44 AM

Oh man did I ever do this stuff.I actually had the fire department called on me a few times for burning things like microwaves, vcrs, toys,radios basiclly anything electronic.One time I set my neighbors tree on fire when some transitors exploded (I don't know if you know this but transitors go off like fireworks, ive seen some explode like cherry bombs)and flew into there tree.
One of the things I loved doing was shooting up random peoples cars with my paintball gun, or sticking mice that I caught in there mail boxes.

AndyC · October 09, 2003, 06:47:54 AM

Capacitors can make a pretty nice bang too, if you get the polarity wrong. Learned that first hand when I built my first power supply out of odds and ends.

Ash · August 28, 2006, 09:31:02 AM

Loyal's insect thread got me thinking that I'd written about that electrical device "Sparky" before.
Yep, sure enough I had...in this old classic and hilarious thread written in 2003.

I'm anxious to hear what some of our newer members have done!

So, what have you done?

dean · August 30, 2006, 03:21:34 AM

Not done anything new or different, but considering I didn't reply on this a while ago, I should probably say:

" used to melt those green & tan colored army men into puddles of goo with a lighter or a candle when I was a kid. I would pretend that the soldiers had a voice and as I would put their heads near the flame I would say out loud, "Oh please God NOOO....don't burn me!!"
Then I would make gurgling sounds as they melted. "

That does explain alot...

Mwahahahaha!

Ash · August 30, 2006, 03:39:09 AM

AndyC wrote:
Well, there was a toad, on the ground, shot with a 12-gauge at a range of about 18 inches. Aside from a smoking hole in the ground and dirt raining down on me, there wasn't much to see.

That has to be one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time!
I can just picture it happening.

RCMerchant · August 30, 2006, 06:02:08 AM

I hadda Charlie McCarthy dummy...I put him in a barrel that we usta burn papers in.I set him on fire to watch his face bubble and melt.My dad found some of my Johnny West figures out in the yard and shot 'em up with a pistol. Me and a buddy made a small pipe bomb and blew up an old grill in a junk yard.The dam lid musta blew 20 feet into the air!So cool! I used to swat wasps just enuff to disable them,then set them on an ant hill to watch the ants kill and dismember it...ALIVE!!! "YES-I like to TORTURE!!!"(Bela Lugosi-the RAVEN(1935).

Flangepart · August 30, 2006, 03:44:58 PM

Old model airplanes + M-80s = BOOM!
My friend Steve was real good with useing Cigs as delay fuses...through an M-80 down a sewer once...big steel sewer lids rattled up and down the block!

loyal1 · August 30, 2006, 11:01:53 PM

Yes a great thread indeed. I am glad my bug thread brought it forth. Maybe I should finish my psych degree...I could hear a lot more stories like these! I have to say my fav line is by wuggles451 "Things haven't changed much over three years of "maturing". Just yesterday I filmed a friend in a Twinkie costume, riding a scooter armed with roman candles, chasing a fat kid." Classic!

On another note...where are all these people like wuggles and susan? I know I was introduced to this board the same night that M Night doc came out on Sci Fi before the opening of The Village. I googled it and Badmovies was right up there on the list. I have been on and off ever since.

Ash · August 31, 2006, 12:56:14 AM

loyal1 Wrote:
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> On another note...where are all these people like
> wuggles and susan?

I'm not sure.
Susan used to come up with some of the greatest threads.
Maybe she has a boyfriend now.
I've noticed that girls who post here constantly often disappear altogether when a man enters their life.
I just couldn't imagine never posting to a board again that I had invested so much time into...like those people who are here all the time and then are never heard from again.

loyal1 · August 31, 2006, 05:57:29 AM

Ash wrote

"I've noticed that girls who post here constantly often disappear altogether when a man enters their life.
I just couldn't imagine never posting to a board again that I had invested so much time into...like those people who are here all the time and then are never heard from again."

That makes sense. I did the same thing. I suppose it's a time issue. When I am with someone I rarely go online except to check email. How typically girly of me...lol. I may not be a typical girl by any means, but there are some traits I cannot deny.

But somehow, I always come back. :)

Shadowphile · September 01, 2006, 03:35:24 PM

Burning ants with a magnifying glass is an old favourite. I used to do it on the sidewalk in front of my grandparents house. I had no access to firecrackers. They were banned in Canada before I had a chance to appreciate them and I doubt they would have let me into Buffalo to buy them. I had to content myself with other destructive techniques. I recall finding a box of Barbies in my sister's closet. I gnawed on several of them and let the dog take the rap...