I may have discovered a near perfect mouse trap.  Few weeks ago one of my sons came by tp pick up stuff he left in the storage room here.  ( As an aside, advice to any parents out there.  Whenever a kid moves out , change the door locks.  It costs a little but is cheap compared to coming home from work and finding that one has moved back in.)

  I set a nearly empty beer bottle down while I helped him carry stuff.  Couple of days later, when I went in there again, there were two dead mice in the bottle.  I guess they went after the beer and couldn't get back out.  Pretty sure they died happy.

Only down side I see to this is that I have a real hard time deliberately leaving beer in the bottle.  I have been known to try wringing the bottle to get all of it.

Beer proves that God loves us - Ben Franklin

Gott'a know the brand of the suds and they didn't manage to knock the bottle over?

Modello Negra. I like the European and American specialty dark beers best, but considering how taxpayers treat us State employees, I can't always afford them.

As for turning the bottle over, once they were inside it would be pretty hard.Try it; push on the lower third of a bottle and see if you can tip it. Besides they were probably so blitzed they didn't think of it.

Every day on the green side of the grass is a good day.

ya know, that was a real sh*tty thing to say about taxpayers and you ought to be ashamed for even thinking or saying that! i am a damn hard working taxpayer and i can guarantee you, as a state employee you make far more money then i do and work half as hard as i do!!!!!!!

ya know, that was a real sh*tty thing to say about taxpayers and you ought to be ashamed for even thinking or saying that! i am a damn hard working taxpayer and i can guarantee you, as a state employee you make far more money then i do and work half as hard as i do!!!!!!!

Now, now now, Taymdint, yourself being a taxpayer, know darn well it's the state legislatures that determine budgets, which determine how much you would get being a "state" worker. Not taxpayers.
And Baysaw, I know for a fact that governments workers many times get passed over for cost of living increases. I'm not a retired state worker, but a retired federal worker and I 'm about living at a poverty level with my retirement, before it, I was just above poverty level.

Both of you guys are a little bit wrong, maybe it was the beer, or the problems with state budgets in "Calli" that cause this thread to stray.

I know I and many of my co-workers always gave a serious 120% back when, also I nearly died with a, (work related), bleeding ulcer when I was working in another state and they didn't recognize my government health care until the next morning and they could get someone on the phone. Try laying in intensive care in Cape Fear Memorial Hospital in your own diarrhea-like excrement, (partially digested blood), for about seven or eight hours before they decide to treat you. I was just too suborn to die.
I also lost a friend to a, (work related), heart attack and he was on the road with his government job.
Life ain't easy on that end of the stick.

So let's return this thread to it's intended path....

A better mouse trap!

Baysaw,

You can say that as many times as your finger can press the Submit button.

I haven't figure out yet why someone would want to be a slave to.....

Posted By Taymdint on 07-31-2010 06:39 AM
Modello Negra. I like the European and American specialty dark beers best, but considering how taxpayers treat us State employees, I can't always afford them.

As for turning the bottle over, once they were inside it would be pretty hard.Try it; push on the lower third of a bottle and see if you can tip it. Besides they were probably so blitzed they didn't think of it.

Every day on the green side of the grass is a good day.

****************** How about tipping over when trying to get IN not OUT?

I'd heard something similar to this for catching mice/chipmunks. Fill a 5gal bucket almost halfway with water, cover surface with sunflower seeds (since they are supposed to float). The critters jump in for a snack but are unable to get out. I have yet to try this since i have cats to take care of most of the mice and a pellet gun for chipminks.

Actually, I don't think they can swim. And since there is nothing solid they can get a purchase on to jump, they eventually drown.
I'm about that close on the chippies in my yard.

I'm pretty sure mice can't swim either.

Rats are another story, they swim pretty well.

Getting back to the original, "TWO mice in a beer bottle", kinda makes me chuckle about Micky and Minnie on a date stop in to have a drink and there you have it, Donald Duck takes over the Mickey Mouse club!

Gerry, I believe the concept IS that they would drown. I am not talking about the "humane" sort of trap, although drowning in beer is humane in it's own sort of way. But I'm not about to fill a 5gal bucket with some good suds. lol

Posted By marvin668 on 08-01-2010 07:43 PM
Gerry, I believe the concept IS that they would drown. I am not talking about the "humane" sort of trap, although drowning in beer is humane in it's own sort of way. But I'm not about to fill a 5gal bucket with some good suds. lol

Now before I get banned, let it be known that in NO WAY was I suggesting the use of "good suds" in pursuit of chippies!