@GiltProto: Ah, that's not a mousetrap, that's a spousetrap.

bosskev

In my version we dispense with the door contraption, instead a beautiful lattice of razor wire is pulled quickly through the trap. Voila, mouse appetif!

TheAdAgency

Ah, a little speciesism to bring home with me on my way out of the office.

Samifumi

If you ask me, it looks a bit precarious. The pole coming up from the pressure plate barely looks like it's touching the trigger.

Oh, well. I prefer the insane rube-goldberg contraption mousetrap from the board game any day.

keronian

Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!

GiltProto

@Gary_7vn: Nng... I... You... *brain snaps* 0.<

DaOtter

I'll stick with the 9-volt holding traps that give 'em a nice meal and then then ZAP death.

skittlzncombos

Will it work on wireless mice too?

Gary_7vn

that mouse is kinda cute reminds me about my hamster when i was like 10

utube2007

@Camaro02: Not sprayed with poison!

--Tito--

Nice invention, with one drawback. Mice can chew through plastic.

Camaro02

I'm guessing that these are common house mice. And Jason, in the name of being humane, went out of his way to release them in a wooded area. Oh dear. I rather think he might have condemned those gullible wee house mice to certain owl-shaped death.

theoldwolf

@Bos'un's Mate: Very, very nice!

And now I'm going to have critter nightmares for sure...

bosskev

Bos'un's Mate

Reminds me of a tiny velociraptor cage from Jurrasic Park II. Now I just have to find a tiny tiny Australian hunter for it to eat.

DCGaymer

ALF is now going to raid Gizmodo offices to rescue the mice and save them from Lego hell. Threatening to skin them and make furry coats greatly upsets ALF.

ALF will designate Gizmodo an animal terrorist. Even though ALF has been known to kill animals because somehow they deem the animal is better off dead than living as a pampered pet.

See how ALF makes the world a better place by claiming the right to kill animals for their own good?

Now if Gizmodo markets the little fur coats as a way to protect the remaining live mice then ALF may agree with your logic.

It all makes perfect sense to me.

kdaphoto

Oh and of course cash in the empties for income.

jackfrost132

Well Jesus, hows this for a business proposition, first we killiate the mice, then we skin the mice for the little lego coats, then we coat the little meaty corpses in batter and sell them as chicken wings to low class restaurants and of course hobos, they'll eat anything if you'll sell it to them for empty liqour bottles. Then we scare them off with the bumbot [ca.news.yahoo.com] and repeat the process.

jackfrost132

"helped him caught"? My inner Grammar Nazi is tingling.

christopherborne

With two cats patrolling my apartment, I don't have any opportunities to torment rodents.

@Bos'un's Mate: I tip my hat, good sir.

Kaiser-Machead

lolrat? rats are cool pets.. and smart!

chueychihuahua

@Jesus Diaz: Exellent, if you photochop the champion of bum fights(whoever that may be) eating them, throw a graffiti motif on it and spread it around cities, we've got some wicked viral marketing.

jackfrost132

I had a mouse i caught and kept next to my computer I called him Bluetooth.

trrosen

@kdaphoto: Agreed killing an animal after "rescuing" it from it's pampered life is definitely more humane. I mean overcrowding is only humane if it's prisoners, animals shouldn't have to stand for that.

jackfrost132

@jackfrost132: YES!

Jesus Diaz

@Bos'un's Mate: frst wi lzr da caguez den wi lzr da wurldz yekekekekeke

jackfrost132

@DCGaymer: That was JPI, wasn't it?

Git Em SteveDave

@jackfrost132: Nicodeumus?

Bos'un's Mate

@DaOtter: Could you translate this for me?

Gary_7vn

You,l need a tray......the mice are hot

fastmike

We had some pet gerbils growing up as kids. They would have devoured a lego house. They seriously destroyed anything that wasn't metal. The little plastic houses and running wheels were reduced to plastic shavings after about a week (they came free with the rodent cages).

ludwigk

@fastmike: This isn't a game of "who's fucking mouse are you"

strider_mt2k

I hope Jason cackled everytime he snapped a piece into place.

"Muahahahah... yes.. yes.. little mouse. You are one piece closer to a Gizmodo post"

It would make a great Saturday morning cartoon.

N@tedog

my cusin taught me how to make a lego mousetrap with the excact same priniple back in 91. i always thought it was common knowledge how to make one :D

ideon

You're such a racist Jesus. Mice don't talk like that, it's a Western stereotype.

drewdraws2

@strider_mt2k: Fuck off and get your own mouse

fastmike

Why is it that the people who create these 'amusing' pictures of animals supposedly saying things are always illiterate morons who cannot spell?

zooto68

It doesn't have a floor! How do you keep the mouse inside when you pick it up?

jbrecken

I just hate the LOL cats type of of spelling...is it really necessary?

you are better than that GIZMODO.....much better

maccs555

I wish I had stumbled upon the LEGO mousetrap a bit sooner, as I could have used it a few weeks ago.

+ Watch video

ururk

Oddly reminds me of that Velociraptor cage from the start of Jurassic Park. "Shoot her!" (cue agonized mouse squeaking)

Mr.Wilson