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Video: Ants Turn Guy’s Scanner Into Giant Ant Farm

8:00AM August 4, 2008 | Matt Hickey


The video is pretty self explanatory, but here it is for those who can’t see it: A man and his wife had been noticing lots of ants on their computer desk but couldn’t figure out where they were coming from. It wasn’t from outside or anywhere else in the house. Later, the wife tells the husband that the printer wasn’t working correctly. He checked out the printer/scanner combo only to find that the ants had turned it into a home. The video’s pretty good, but what’s he going to do next? Throw out the printer/scanner? Evict the bugs? What would you do?

Comments

  • TedJ

    August 4, 2008 at 12:15 PM

    Was I the only person waiting for the guy to activate the scanner, sweeping the invading bugs to their doom?

  • Dylan

    August 4, 2008 at 1:20 PM

    Same thing happened to my scanner! Seems ants love scanners.

  • Alex

    August 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM

    Ants are strange. I had thousands living in a ceiling smoke detector (just there, nowhere else) … sprayed them with killer, and thousands more moved back in. I would never have minded but they kept setting it off. At night. This guy got off lightly, in my opinion.

  • Will

    August 4, 2008 at 1:42 PM

    Turn it on… Turn it on!

    Maybe try taking it to the manufacturer… ants and all..

  • rich

    August 4, 2008 at 2:04 PM

    Eexactly the same thing happened to me, with the same model printer! Must be ant-friendly. I put it outside in the sun with the lid up and the little buggers took all their eggs and scarpered in about 5 minutes flat. Then i dismantled the lid and vacuumed out all the crap they left behind. No worries!

  • sharath

    August 4, 2008 at 8:01 PM

    I had ants in my harddisk. Not actually n the surface but on the foam surrounding the enclosure between the circuitboard and the harddisk.

    Guess they were looking for breeding space which was warm and people tend to leave the printers on which keeps some parts warm (and cosy) for ants.

  • Greg

    August 4, 2008 at 8:51 PM

    Yep same thing happened to me a while back, printer worked fine after but the scanner always left crazy specs of colour after that and had to get another one.

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