@Curves: That 'somewhere else' is often inside your walls. I just go for the good old fashioned spring traps.

Hiphopopotamus

@Curves: If you wire it up properly then you really only need to empty out ashes.

homerjay- Smiling politely

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Also: Expecting to hear about the first lawsuit when that thing sets a house on fire.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

I just loooove the smell of rodent barbecue in the morning!

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

EEWw, imagine having to empty it. Thats why I use poison pellets, in the hopes they wander off and die elsewhere and I dont have to deal with tiny mice corpses.
(Peanut butter is the best bait.)

Curves

I remember when you had to use a broom to kill a mouse. Kids and their new fangled mouse killing devices.

Justapspfan

Yeah I think they deserve to die! I think they should burn in hell!

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

Awwwwwwsoooooooome! Makes me wish I had mice to kill!

homerjay- Smiling politely

The problem is that I would never get anything else done, I would just hide out all day watching to see when a mouse goes in and then I would laugh a sinister laugh.

rclAlaric

Awesome, I like my mice fried!

Zander

Build a better mousetrap? Not that hard. Mice are curious and standard mousetraps are 90% effective in 24h. Build a better mouse trap for less than 2 for 99 cents? That's hard.

The Lab

@Curves:
Wander off and die elsewhere = what's that funny smell?

pete

There's only one thing missing in this commercial. The usual: "BUT WAIT, if you order today, you also get (some other junk) a $700 value, for only $19.99, just pay Shipping and handling."

Mr-Mr

i wonder if you forgot to change the batteries would it just stun the mice and piss them off for a fight to the death when they land in the collection chamber.

yungjerry703

Does it remind anyone else of the trap from Ghostbusters?

pimlicosound

That was one hilarious article Mr Wilson... LOL made my afternoon...

ictiosapiens

My boss lost one of these electric traps in his garage. The contacts corroded and a mouse started living inside of it. A mouse with an acute sense of irony.

Gann

first blood.
Multi Kill!
ULTRA Kill!!
UNSTOPPABLE!!!
RAMPAGE!!1!

Also, The video reminds me of the installation animations from the Windows 95 Red Alert! game.

jdbaile3

They need to amp it up so it will work on rats and other critters larger than mice.

Sidebar: Joey, my Daschund, once caught and killed a rat in my house. (Good boy, Joey!)

Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder

@johncon3:
Trust me they aren't real smart. I was just up on the attic and decided to check a bucket under a leak patch. Seems there was still a bit of a drip as there was about an inch of water in the bucket....as well as 2 dead mice.

It was a win win situation for me, 2 less mice + they had been in there so long all their hair had fallen out.

You have any idea how much of a PITA skinning a mouse is?

jchasse

We use a standard office metal trash can.
Put food in bottom. Leave next to desk.

If you catch a few over a long weekend, the scene can be quite gruesome when you return to the office.

wezelboy

Excellent! Now I have an excuse to buy those night vision goggles that where reviewed last week!

jchasse

Ok, I can cut the first mouse some slack, but if you are mouse 2-10 that is willing to ignore the scent of rotting rodent just to get some cheese, then by Darwin's standards you weren't smart enough to deserve a continued existence anyway.

johncon3

@Justapspfan: Personally I use 2 cats. Quite effective.

Necoras

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: You might re-think that claim the next time your cat coughs-up yesterday's catch on your carpet.

Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder

mice.....can a rat fit in there?!

Certop

@Curves: My cat eats them, so basically I have a vastly superior vermin control system.

Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine

Instead of dropping the dead mice in a chamber to be disposed of...it would be really cool to have it rigged to slide them onto a big slingshot in the back yard and launch them into the woods.

I wonder if the peta gizmorans would pitch a fit about that?

I_Like_Pie

I'm not buying until it produces some tasty mouse-ka-bobs! If I'm gonna pay $100 for something it can at least produce a nice tasty dinner!

Froggmann

@Curves: Yea poison is ok as a killer until you have to break out a wall in your kitchen to get at the dead rat that has been stinking up the place for 2 weeks. Yes a cat is good for rodent control although my cat has gotten a taste for bigger game, opossums. I'm still suprised to see that she has all four limbs, two eyes and two ears.

Froggmann

"THE device for people who cling to guns and religion"

General Halfshaftery

@johncon3: I've seen mice walk up to a sprung trap, and grab the cheese out of their mouth of their buddy's smashed head.
They're not exactly sentimental creatures.

Oirectine

@Kaiser-Machead's Cookie-Powered LEGO Machine: I dont know if I have mice or not, if the poison pellet level drops, I blame "evaporation". When cleaning out the garage this summer, I wandered upon 2 dead mice on top of a roll of insulation. I carefully cleaned all around it, keeping my eyes averted, repeating to myself "Did not see, did not see" and then put everything back. Hopefully by the time I clean there again, they will have turned to dust. Yes, I know, its denial, but who says you have to face all of your fears. I am perfectly happy pretending it never happened.

(My cat passed away, so I have a guest cat from the neighbors house cruise my yard a few times a week. Seems to work out well.)

Curves

@jchasse: To make tiny, tiny drums?

dwarfgoat

@johncon3:

maybe the smell of barbecued meat and melty cheese prove to be irresistable

xpeak

@I_Like_Pie: I was wondering the same thing about this article itself. =p

Oddly enough, I don't see a single "oh that's sooo cruel!" complaint yet. *shrug*

tamoriel

@I_Like_Pie: It should drop the biggest mouse into a separate chamber, implant a chip in its head, and program it to carry the other mice outside and dispose of them properly before walking back into the trap to end its own life.

Oirectine

@Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder: I wonder if they make one big enough for my fiancée's poodle...
Hmm...

Oirectine

@PhilR8: Put some moth balls in your driveway where you park your car. Squirrels hate the smell and wont go near them. It works pretty well for most any kind of animal, who doesnt hate that smell, including moths.

Curves

The price on this is $66.25 just FYI. Honestly, I thought it might be more.

vista64guy

Victor voting booths next?

vista64guy

I need something like this for squirrels. One of my cats died and the other is old and just likes to sleep all day. In the meantime, the squirrels have taken over my driveway and like to chew on wires underneath my car. Grrr.

PhilR8

Now if only they had larger ones to accommodate squirrels and they were placed near power substations, we'd never have college campuses and small towns losing power to squirrels mucking about in transformers...and making servers go offline...

DigitalSciGuy

@The Lab: NPR's This American Life actually had an interesting interview about just that topic with the folks from Victor where they basically said the same thing. Worth a listen just for the humorous ideas that get submitted to Victor by home inventors.

weatherman

Sale price of $8 on the website!

midwestkel

@Oirectine: I think it's listed on their website as the XXXL Model.

Poodles: Perfectly good dogs ruined by a bad haircut.

Eric 'Vote 4 Me' Alder

@Gann Cats already dead; old age not poison. Guest cat is outside only.

Curves

@Froggmann: You, sir, have a bobcat. No other beast could survive eating a opossum.

Thassodar

@Curves: Mouse eats poison pellet. Cat eats mouse. Cat 'turns to dust'.

Gann

@Gann:
non-toxic to any animal that eats the deceased rodent, per the text on the box. the poison works by causing internal bleeding, and once the rodent has bled out from the inside, the poison degrades to the point of non-toxicity.

LesterGaze

@Froggmann:
two weeks? that's just about the time that they *stop* leaking and smelling up the wallspace and turn into mummies.

LesterGaze

@I_Like_Pie: That idea is full of awesome.

Oh, and I dont think the People Eating Tasty Animals group would have a problem with this, except for the fact that mice I hear are not that tasty.

SomeoneUKno

@jdbaile3: you forgot GODLIKE!

SomeoneUKno

@yungjerry703: Holy shit. That would be awesome. Lets you and me go splitsies on one of these and a webcam.

2-7offsuit

@LesterGaze: Thank you. I feel better knowing I am not poisoning cats too.

Curves

@jdbaile3: "Wicked Sick!"

awemaker

The massive rats we have around here would use this thing as carnival ride.

Brau

@Gann: okay that one made me giggle, alot!

mfusion

@jdbaile3: My friend got this and got the running riot acievement the first day!! Yesterday he got a killamanjaro!!!

reapdaslaughter

@Froggmann: My old cat killed tried killing mice and was really good at it, but then it went after armadillos and racoons, surprisingly it was succesful. Then it went after cars...
Now my dog kills birds while they're flying its, entertaining to see a dog jump 5 ft in the air to try to kill a bird

reapdaslaughter