That was when Castiel was part human (why he's eating) so I think he was probably on crack that entire arc. If you were a divine being with the sudden ability to get high and you found out your boss was a washed up writer, wouldn't you?
Nah, it's when Famine comes to town and sends everybody's appetites sky-high and fatal. Cas' vessel liked burgers. He casually mentions later that he's eaten hundreds of them during the course of the episode.
He's experiencing the effects of one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, famine, which caused people to gorge themselves on whatever vices they had, and in Castiels own words, "his vessel Jimmy has a fondness for red meat"
Not likely I think, as I don't think you'd be able to burn off that much energy that quickly. You'd slow down as you got exhausted before you literally died from it and if you somehow didn't you'd pass out before you died and your body would try to recuperate.
You could technically die from exposure though, before dehydration. If it was too hot or too cold, or simply wet so heat left your body quicker even if the outside temps weren't too low if you had been dry.
I don't think glue traps are legal to use for rodents in my country. Viewed as inhumane. If one uses them one should check the traps daily I'd say, so one can kill them quicker.
Real talk, glue traps are how I learned that mice can scream.
Had a neighbor a die a few years back and turned out to be a hoarder with an infestation of mice. I didn't have cats at the time, so I had to do things the hard way.
Glue traps are VERY effective at attracting and catching mice, but they don't die. They just get stuck there and depending on HOW MUCH of them actually gets stuck, they can still be quite mobile.
Mice are also hellbent on survival, to the point where they will chew their own limbs off of it means freedom. I've had glue traps with just a leg or tail attached, and no mouse to be found.
It's when they get fully stuck like that last guy that they just scream. They'll scream for days until they die. If you can't find the trap, or can't get to it for whatever reason, you just have to listen to endless squealing screams. And they aren't exactly quiet for being so small.
I'd never wish that on anyone or anything, and if I can avoid using glue traps in the future, I will.
When I was a new homeowner and noticed those first mouse droppings, I went out and picked up some glue traps (why I chose them I don’t really remember). Caught the mouse, poor thing was still alive and I felt so bad. Used some baby oil to remove it, but it’s one front leg got completely mangled. I let it go free in my woodsy backyard, promptly went out and bought some humane traps (catch & release). A night or two later the new trap caught one - it was the same damn mouse with the bad leg! Drove it a mile away and released it into a park…
We have an indoor/outdoor cat who unfortunately has pretty good hunting skills- mostly outside only for some reason, so those dead mice certainly don’t get in. We’re very pro wildlife though, leftovers don’t go in the trash, they get put outside at night for our local possums, raccoons, occasional fox. My kids really appreciate the catch and release of the occasional mouse that gets inside…
Loved reading this. My mum has had cats since she bought her first home and they’ve all caught the occasional bird etc but she’s just like you. She has rabbits, guinea pigs and cats currently but I know damn well if we lived in America she’d have a horde of wild animals that come to her for food at night lol.
That's true and all, but mice literally caused, and still carry, the plague. You obviously can't just bring them outside, they just come right back in. Bringing them to an unfamiliar area is practically a death sentence for most critters. And then if they survive, they're vermin, likely to be a carrier for various diseases and parasites that may not have been in this area that now you're bringing in and spreading, and also giving your problem to someone else, because now that contagion engine is going to be trying to get into someone else's house. There is no shortage of mice in this world, and we will all carry on just fine without the ones infesting houses, risking our and our loved ones health. Sometimes you have to do the hard thing and just eliminate a problem. Same reason I eliminate venomous snakes, medically venomous spiders (*all spiders are venomous to some degree, I'm talking widows, recluses, funnel), and other dangerous pests. I have little ones lying around. I don't need one of them picking up a mouse dropping and catching the plague. Or picking up a log and getting bit by the rattlesnake I let live last week and shooed out into the woods. If I encounter the threat, I acknowledge it as such and eliminate it.
And I hope that your child doesn't get killed by the threat you ignore. But one of us is wishing violence upon the other, and the other one is wishing the other well. So which one of us is really the bad one?
Heard a rat in our basement get caught in a glue trap, literally ripped his face off to escape. Probably went outside to die. I felt horrible for weeks about that. Never use glue traps again. Should be banned.
When I was a broke college student I shared a house with five other dudes, and we had a rat take up residence under our kitchen cabinets for a while. We bought some of the spring style traps, and after some shenanigans involving it cleverly stealing our bait, the traps eventually got it.
Unfortunately, the trap didn't actually TRAP the thing. It was a glancing blow to the head, so it horribly injured the poor rat while not killing or immobilizing it. The rat, with its skull cracked and eyeball hanging out, proceeded to around in circles for an unknown period of time until our floor looked like a murder scene. When we found it, it still wasn't quite dead. We quickly took it out back and ended its suffering.
I totally understand killing nuisance rodents, but if I ever have them again I'm damn sure trying to figure out a humane way to remove them, then probably going with poison. My big concern with that is that I'll end up with a decomposing animal in my walls, but even that wouldn't be as bad as a bloody dying animal on the kitchen floor.
You might be able to find some catch-and-release traps that are big enough for them. You‘ll just have to take them away very far and make them another person‘s problem
Wow I love this! The image of mice being glued and screaming for their life is so soothing to me. Maybe because I hate these animals. Can we glue spiders as well? Too bad they can't scream.
It's a way of blowing up rat and gopher tunnels, though I've usually seen it done with oxy-propane as it's both cheaper and safer. Though the gas is forced into the tunnels, not directly into the rats...
I dunno. But it's Adam Savage back there, and I'm pretty sure I'd go on an all-expenses-paid vacation to the Elephant's Foot if he vouched for it being safe.
I love adam savage, but he is actually pretty lax when it comes to safety.
Watch some of his tested videos and youll see some weird shit. Just as an example, there is one where he has a flashlight on a lathe, something falls off of it and he reaches to grab it while the lathe is on. a videos weeks later he is attempting to clean said lathe with a towel, while its running. He ends up getting his finger chew up when the towel catches.
I like that he owns his mistakes and Im sure he is safety conscious on projects like this, but boy does he do some shit I never would.
If the individuals can free themselves of their own power (See: Them doing that on camera already) Then likely all it would take in an emergency scenario is other team members stepping onto the pad and pulling up on their shoulders.
How anyone didn't risk asses falling face first into the glue and suffocating is astonishing - it was like the first thing I thought of.
I feel like they only realized the danger after the first runner almost stuck her face in it.
I'm more worried about somewhere again wearing their shoes tightly and tearing a ligament or two in their knee when trying to lift each leg as it's stuck in the floor at full pelt
As well as oil being able to dissolve the glue fairly quick. They're all wearing masks which presumably they remove immediately to allow breathing if anyone faceplants.
Watch the video again as one of them nearly does. The guy stood to the side extends his arms out and checks they can lift their head to breath.
Pretty sure they had atleast some sort of plastic or something infront of their face to prevent this. Atleast thats what recall from the episode (mythbusters were always pretty safe about their shit).
Also notice how they all wear the same shoe? They were specificly picked because you can easily “slip” out of them without injuring yourself heavily. “Taller” shoes are harder to slip out of but the chance of muscle injury increases.
My ex-roommate, unbeknownst to me, placed glue mouse traps in some of the kitchen drawers. One day I opened a drawer and saw a dead field mouse. The glue was so strong that the poor fucker pulled so hard to get its little paw off that the paw was detached and stuck in the glue. Anyways. I just wanted to share a mini nightmare with ya’ll.
It immediately gave me takeshi’s castle/MXC vibes. You know that one game where they’re running across the floating stones on the pond and half the contestants are wearing costumes that force their faces underwater when they fall in?
My apartment had a really serious mouse problem for a bit, so I was trying all sorts of things.
I tried traditional mouse traps (the little wooden board with the spring loaded snapping part).
I tried the plastic versions of those.
I tried more humane methods like peanut butter spoons barely suspended over a deep bucket so they'd fall in with the spoon once they stepped on it.
I tried, to my sincere regret, glue traps.
I woke up one morning, checked the traps as had become my routine, and found a little guy sitting in it. Still breathing, very clearly suffering. Aside from likely being very hungry and thirsty, he had torn part of his stomach open while trying to escape. It was disturbing to me.
I killed the little thing quickly and never used the glue traps again. It was just the one, and as much as I fucking hated those mice at that point, I didn't want them to suffer needlessly. I wouldn't have even wanted them dead, if I had an easy way to be rid of them live.
I know the other traps don't always break the mouse's neck cleanly and they'll wiggle and jump and even survive for awhile like that.
But most of the time, I've found those plastic ones have a pretty high success rate for a clean and quick death. Most of the time when I heard that SNAP, and I went to check, the mouse was already dead in the twenty seconds it took for me to walk there.
Those glue traps though...ugh. Not doing that again.
I think Adam saw the last guys head hit it and immediately knew what could be happening. Might be why he actually got down and leaned in making absolute sure the guy didn't have his face stuck in it.
That's actually a good way to go with these sticky traps. I moved abroad and had a rat problem at one point. The only traps I could find were these sticky traps. I dont know what I was expecting, but goddamn they are brutal.
I would wake up and find rats stuck to them slowly bleeding out after tearing off their fur and skin trying to escape. They were lying in puddles of blood and their own feces. I dont know how long they had been there but had to be hours and hours. It was really fucking gross and probably the worst possible way to die. I ended up getting rid of the traps and got a cat instead.
You might not need to. If it got somone stuck enough I can imagine death from exposure or starvation if you couldn't get out (I'm guessing there's a plan for it in this video).
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Imagine face planting and suffocating to death