Weekend RANT "Update-see post 25"

[CAJUNLAWYER]

So I have my wife and daughter come screaming into the house....Apparently there is a rodent (I'm thinking Norway Rat) that has taken up residence in a rolled up rug in the shed (not necessarily a bad thing as I have been trying to get her to get rid of that ugly thing for the past 10 years). I went to three places looking for a good old Victor Rat Trap. Put a little peanut butter on the trigger set it and come back in a few hours and throw away one dead rat. I'm a simple guy that likes to stick with what works. All I can fine are "humane" traps!! What the.....- I don't want to be humane-I want to snap it's little neck. I finally find one and it's a damn Chinese knock off
Some things in life are sacrosanct-I rank Victor rat traps up there with Zippo lighters and Ray Ban Sunglasses as quintessential American made Products and now they're made in China for cryin' out loud!!!
You guys just wait-sooner or later someone is going to find a way to outsource Bourbon production to China.

 

[captorquewrench]

What? We found good old snap traps at Lowes...depot...and Ace! And dollar general!

Hush yer mouth about that bourbon!

 

[DWFAN]

Victor it is. I have had an influx of chipmunks this year. Last year it was what I thought was only one. It was cute. I fed it the wife fed it. This year there are four. Not so cute anymore. Tearing up the gardens looking for some thing to eat. One Victor rat trap some peanut butter and sunflower seeds stuck to it and we're down to one. Little bugger has the nerve to sit on my stone wall and chatter at me. It won't be long for you sucker. Also have a ground hog and a rabbit. Have to put the scope back on the .22.
DW

 

[M29since14]

Have you checked where your Raybans were made lately, counselor?

I don't like it either...

 

[jeffsmith]

Don't worry about Bourbon being Outsourced to China
Several Bourbon Distillers are owned by Japanese firms

 

[Bullet Bob]

A real Cajun would have a Victor trap, not need to acquire one.

How else would one have enough hors d'oeuvres for the cotillion?

 

[rimfired]

My Gargoyles were made in the US of A.
Same with the Remington CB .22's that dispatched the groundhog that somehow found it's way into my yard.
I dissavow any knowledge of this action. Purely fiction and hogwash. For your entertainment only!!!

 

[Mule Packer]

Hey, take it from one who knows...when it comes to trappin' rats, the Chinese have it all over those folks at Victor!!!

 

[Biginge]

When I lived in Louisiana (in another life) we had bags of Victor traps. Kinda like decoy bags. We even had some that had small chains attached for the big ones that had mudflaps emblazoned with "We stop at all RR Crossings".

 

[cmort666]

A few years ago, I had a mouse in my kitchen which was eating bread and hotdog buns at night. He'd eat right through the plastic.

I bought a couple of the wind-up guillotine type traps that look like artillery dispensed land mines. They stick their heads inside and it trips a latch the causes the a circular motion which either breaks their necks or beheads them (I forget which.). I also bought the stuff in the plastic bags which they supposedly gnaw into, poisoning themselves when they eat it. Neither worked.

I finally went to the hardware store and bought a couple of old fashion rat traps. I put some peanut butter on the latch. A day or two later, I found the trap upside down in the middle of the kitchen floor, a dead mouse in it. I just grabbed a garbage bag, turned it inside out and picked up mouse and trap and threw them in the dumpster outside.

 

[EugeneNine]

I had a co-worked come in the office one day with a weekend rant, seems his wife and daughter went out and BOUGHT a cat, actually paid for a cat, why would someone pay for a cat when you can just get them free anywhere, they actually paid for a cat, etc.

 

[WuzzFuzz]

Ok, a inquiring mind wants to know...Do you use Jiff, Skippy or Peter Pan Peanut butter? Creamy or Chunky? Natural or the stuff with all the additives?


Hey, there's noting on the tube tonight, and my mind is a wandering.


WuzzFuzz

 

[boatme99]

I had a co-worked come in the office one day with a weekend rant, seems his wife and daughter went out and BOUGHT a cat, actually paid for a cat, why would someone pay for a cat when you can just get them free anywhere, they actually paid for a cat, etc.

Those cats are harder to get rid of than the mice.

 

[35Rem]

A rant writ, writ for a rat?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o5wxqFQj76U

 

[wbraswell]

Why would anyone throw away a perfectly good trap? It probably still had peanut butter on it. If you're going to throw it away, use glue traps. Nice humor on this one, guys.

 

[EugeneNine]

Those cats are harder to get rid of than the mice.

Joke was on him though. I knew how to program the phone system. So every time he called someone they would start meowing at him. He though he must have been ranting so loud the whole company heard him. Until someone ask him why his display name on the phone was meow instead of Doug.

 

[gdnagle]

They sell the bigéns around here.

 

[JohnSW]

Have you checked where your Raybans were made lately, counselor?
I don't like it either...

And Ray-Ban brand is now owned by the Italian company Luxottica.

Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? - CBS News

 

[carpriver]

For rat traps we here the north use a 5 gallon bucket half full of water. fix a dowel across the bucket with a string to hang down almost to the water put some peanut butter on the end of the string. lean a another dowel against the bucket. the varmint crawls up the dowel down the string tries to eat the peanut butter and fall in the water and drowns. Dump it out the back door or down the toilet .

 

[leswad]

These are the better mouse trap:

Victor® Electronic Rat Trap: Read Reviews

I call mine old sparky, and he is batting 1000!