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Man Vs Mouse
Intro
Research 1
Research 2
Trap #1
Trap #2
Trap #3
Trap #4
Trap #5
Trap #6
Trap #7
Trap #8
Trap #9
Trap #10
The End
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© 2000 Paul Perkins
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A bit of ingenuity.
I sought help early on with this project. I tried to solicit
advice from people whom I thought could outsmart a mouse. Most
gave odd stares. I'm guessing they were intimidated. One
person did stand up to meet the challenge, Chris Coyne. Chris
works at a bulimia
support shelter. He recommended that I hurl traps at the mouse
with a Lego MindStorm kit. In my opinion, paying over a $100 to
kill a mouse "wasn't a prudent venture" (George Bush Sr.
talk). Hurling traps at the mouse was a unique idea though.
It was something I had to try.
While I'm talking about unique things.
Someone in a computer technician forum that I visit mentioned that they
drink beer & Sprite (60% beer, 40% Sprite). I tried the
concoction and would have thrown it out, but my wife rescued it.
She said it tasted like ginger ale and liked it enough to make herself
another. This has nothing to do with mice. I'm babbling.
No... wait... I'm a scientist. Scientists don't babble, drunks
babble. I was vercabulating on an adjacent topic.
No... that's Don King talk. Damn my worthless English degree!
With a little bit of
planning I devised a simple contraption (a scientific word for a
cheap device that you don't think will work) that would drop a wall of
eight traps onto an unsuspecting mouse. The wall consisted of four
pairs of traps that were hinged together with duct tape. The wall
of mousy death leaned over a small chamber I constructed out of bits of
2x4, some cinderblock, and a barrel of deck stain. A small stick
propped up the wall of traps. All I had to do was test it.
 
Pwepare to die, mowsey!
Raining snapping death from above!
The test was actually a failure.
The top traps hit the opposite wall, sprung early, and flew back
harmlessly. Also, there was little chance that the mouse would
jump up and yank the support stick.
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