You ever wonder what happened to that psycho kid you grew up next door to? He's apparently running pest control on Guam, where the U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to reduce the population of brown tree snakes in Guam by dropping acetaminophen-filled dead mice into the forest from helicopters. "Since scientists discovered that the household pain reliever was deadly to the brown tree snakes, they've been trying to figure out how to get it to where many of the serpents live in the canopies of the island's forests, according to a report in Stars & Stripes. The Tylenol-loaded mice are attached to two pieces of cardboard joined by paper streamers that snake exterminators hope will catch on tree branches, providing deadly snacks for snakes at those heights, according to the Stripes report."
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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They would also bait fish-hooks with hot dogs and hang them from trees. Come the next morning, each one would have a snake hanging from it. Pretty much the dumbest snakes in the world.
Anything that can snatch a bird mid-flight demands a modicum of respect, mister.
Wait I think that's the emerald tree boa.
Ew, fuck snakes.
But they make great boots.
Other fun facts: the snakes will fry in the sun if they come out during the day, which is awesome because you don't really ever see them unless you're out in the woods at night. They are poisonous but very weakly so as long as you aren't a baby or infirm, no problems. There are very very few birds on the island because of them. They routinely get zapped on power lines; they also regularly cause power outages when they make it into sensitive parts of the island's power plants.
I have the constitution of a colicky baby, and I am only awake at night so I can avoid the harsh light of the sun! I AM SCREWED
The snake enjoys the tylenol mice, decides to follow it up with a nice glass of red wine and ka-blam! instant liver damage.
Also if the snake eats more than the recommended mice per day.
I nearly succumbed to a cocaine filled weasel.
So that's what Wile E Coyote's been up to.