My name is Q, and I am a fly-killer.

[Q]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 8:32pm

With apologies to the Buddhists, I simply can't abide these creatures. They annoy me, and so I kill them. Unrepentedly.

I'll risk the bad Karma for some peace of mind - or I might end up at the top of a tower with an Uzi.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 8:36pm

I try not to kill any living thing but a moth came out from inside my toilet the other day and I killed it out of panic.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 8:40pm

Don't tell my former friend, or she'll be pissed. Actually, that's partially why she is a former friend.

[scott68]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 8:49pm

We had an awful fruit fly problem last month. I can't tell you how satisfying it is to watch those little mofos die.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 8:58pm

Flies only live for two weeks to a month anyway. I say, flatten the bastards.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 8:59pm

I had those stupid little lizards come into my apartment in Florida once in a while. I really can't stand them and I can only imagine them crawling on me at night or something. So, if I see one, I freak out, then I get my plunger and chase them (which can be quite interesting as they are VERY fast and run up walls...) Finally, I capture them with the plunger which sits for days until they die. (they take 5 days to die! The first couple times, I removed the plunger in 1 or 2 days and learned my lesson by having to re-capture them!) I then take a WHOLE role of paper towels, pick them up and throw them out.
*shivers and gags*

Most people will capture them with a cup and then slide a paper under it and take it outside but they truly freak me out to no end!

I'm sorry lizard; don't invade my space and I won't kill you.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 9:09pm

That seems rather inefficient. Can't you just squash them with the plunger instead of waiting around for them to die? What happens if the toilet clogs and it's only been 2 days?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 9:11pm

Or if your plunger is inconveniently placed in front of a doorway?

[The Boy From Ohio]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 9:11pm

I've killed two by hand just in the past few weeks.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 9:30pm

I confess: I kill mice. DEAD.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 9:39pm

Anyone I've ever lived with has been told up front that I will immediately move from the premises and break the lease if I see a mouse.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 10:29pm

"That seems rather inefficient. Can't you just squash them with the plunger instead of waiting around for them to die? What happens if the toilet clogs and it's only been 2 days?

I can't kill them with the plunger because A) I don't want lizard guts on the plunger and B) You can't really kill it because it moves so fast so you go to put the plunger on it, and it's gone. It's a 1 time deal...it's quite a difficult task which took several attempts to find the most effective way.

As for the plunger being needed, I have another. I have the "bathroom plunger" and the "lizard plunger."


"Or if your plunger is inconveniently placed in front of a doorway?"

And that's happened several times in the past. It also sat in the middle of the kitchen floor for days.

Updated On: 8/27/09 at 10:29 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 10:41pm

Can you set traps for them or something? There's got to be a more efficient way than several days of inconvenience and an entire roll of paper towel.

Updated On: 8/27/09 at 10:41 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 10:48pm

The place I work at (a mini-golf place that's connected to a farm) always has a whole mess o' flies around. SO of course, we always have a few flyswatters handy. Though lately, we've been having a bee problem. Now flies, I can tolerate, but I can't stand bees. I see one, I grab the swatter.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 10:51pm

Damn "life to all." When and if I see a roach....it's going to get nice and cozy with my size 13 shoe

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:23pm

Em- I'm moving back to PA in the next few weeks so I won't have to worry about it. I don't know that they have "lizard" traps. It almost sounds more torturous than mouse traps. (not saying that my way is less torturous...)

They are all around where I live and most people enjoy them and are happy to deposit them (alive) outside their apartment.

They give me the heebie jeebies.


They are usually a little smaller than this one:

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:26pm

I love those little lizards... they fascinate me.

It sounds hypocritical, but, I think leaving something to die over a number of days is inhumane. Killing a fly immediately doesn't seem quite so heartless.

But, I know... both are against nature.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:35pm

Well, isn't the problem with just grabbing them and tossing them out the door that they can separate from their tails? Or am I thinking of something else?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:39pm

I think you're right...

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:43pm

I hate moths more than flies. (I do love Q, Addy, Em, SQL, SOMMS, PJ, Spidey, Skittles and all the oldies in this thread!)

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:44pm

love you too *huggles*

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:44pm

Oldie?

awww.... love ya back!

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:48pm

Aww, and I ruv you.

Moths scare the crap out of me. I hate almost all bugs, but I think it's that frantic fluttering that really freaks me out.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 8/27/09 at 11:51pm

We had a basket with the dog stuff, and I finally realized that the moth infestation in our house was feeding off the spilled dog food in the basket! I HATE MOTHS!

Addy, you are younger than spring time!

[D2]

Posted: 8/28/09 at 7:59am

Windex. It immobilizes the fly and then you can swat it quite easily. Works with mosquitoes, too. And generally they'll land on a window, so you'll kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.

I am against killing birds, just to be perfectly clear. Like my windows.