Post by Sasquatch on Jun 12, 2006 4:54:06 GMT -5
I am wanting to start a new club of guys willing to hunt rats with a sledge hammer.
While at work about a month ago, I was putting cardboard in the baler when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Sitting there by the bay door was a good-sized rat, nibbling contentedly on something.
Naturally, I immediately began trying to think of a way to kill it before it escaped, as it was ten feet away. I figured it would flee when I moved, but it did not. I peered behind the baler, hoping to find a tool of some sort that I could dispatch the vermin with. I saw a huge iron pry bar and a sledgehammer. I figured I'd miss with the pry bar, or that it would deflect off the concrete and impale the receiving door, so I selected the 10# hammer.
I crept up to the rat, which still showed no sense of self preservation (I'm sure a deer would have sensed this much death energy radiating from me and fled in terror). I raised the hammer directly over the plague-spreader, head down like a pendulum, and simply dropped it on him.
It was a good shot, if I do say so myself, and very effective. I scraped the late (and somewhat thinner than before) rodent onto a small piece of cardboard and, being the jerk that I am, laid him in the chute of our eye-level trash compacter facing out.
That way when the next person opened the door, Mr. whiskers would be looking them in the eye. As luck would have it, the next person to the compacter was a woman. Yes!
Anyone else hunt rats with a hammer?
While at work about a month ago, I was putting cardboard in the baler when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Sitting there by the bay door was a good-sized rat, nibbling contentedly on something.
Naturally, I immediately began trying to think of a way to kill it before it escaped, as it was ten feet away. I figured it would flee when I moved, but it did not. I peered behind the baler, hoping to find a tool of some sort that I could dispatch the vermin with. I saw a huge iron pry bar and a sledgehammer. I figured I'd miss with the pry bar, or that it would deflect off the concrete and impale the receiving door, so I selected the 10# hammer.
I crept up to the rat, which still showed no sense of self preservation (I'm sure a deer would have sensed this much death energy radiating from me and fled in terror). I raised the hammer directly over the plague-spreader, head down like a pendulum, and simply dropped it on him.
It was a good shot, if I do say so myself, and very effective. I scraped the late (and somewhat thinner than before) rodent onto a small piece of cardboard and, being the jerk that I am, laid him in the chute of our eye-level trash compacter facing out.
That way when the next person opened the door, Mr. whiskers would be looking them in the eye. As luck would have it, the next person to the compacter was a woman. Yes!
Anyone else hunt rats with a hammer?
