All You Rednecks Think You’re The Experts On Huntin’? – IOTW Report

All You Rednecks Think You’re The Experts On Huntin’?

NYC has hunters. Rat hunters.

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22 Comments on All You Rednecks Think You’re The Experts On Huntin’?

  1. Your comment brings me back to when I was young and I used to fire arrows at the eggs on Easter.
    Sometimes we’d shoot them.
    It’s not an Easter egg HUNT without a gun or an arrow.

  2. some of the rats in shitcago are as big as cats…i worked in small deli and grocery store…..taking garbage to the dumpster was scary….they hiss and aren’t afraid of you;

  3. My friends Dad was an exterminator back in the late 60’s and he hired myself, my friend and another friend ( we were 16 at the time) to exterminate rats in Downtown Spokane when the railroad tracks used to run thru the center of the city before Expo 74 renovated our downtown area. Anyway my friends Dad would pump gas down into rat holes and we’d club them with baseball bats with nails in it as the rats came out of their hiding places. That wasn’t the worst job we did for him, crawling into tight crawl spaces under houses and exterminating spiders was the worst. At least with the rats we were outside, I don’t like tight crawl spaces and I hate spiders.

  4. We were all young and skinny then so we could fit into tight crawl spaces whereas my friends Dad was older and a lot fatter and smarter than us (as well as paying us) so we did his dirty work killing spiders for him. Thankfully that job didn’t last very long, just for that summer.

  5. As an exterminator I can only guess why he didn’t do the easier thing – fog the crawl space.

    Was he cheap, or did he like to f**k with you kids?

    Maybe five or ten dollars worth of chemical. Of course you’d need a fogging machine, which would fall into the “he’s cheap” category.

    Spiders hang out and proliferate where insects are. So my inspection would focus on what is supporting the insects they are eating. Pools of water they can breed in? Leaky sewer pipe? Something is amiss. Eliminating the support is long term control of pests. An organic method.

    Sometimes that is impossible and there is a need for regular treatment:
    Lakeside homes will always have spider problems. The ever present water to breed insects plus outdoor lights to attract those insects equals spiders hanging out for din din and breeding like crazy. Even country homes in the middle of a pasture have few spiders under them – that’s not where the food is.

    I go under houses all the time. There are few spiders once you get away from the vents where light comes in. 30 years of crawling them ans I rarely come across any when doing a termite inspection.

  6. I have two Dachshunds that would love to go on a rat hunt. A few months ago I found a vole problem in the yard. The dogs and I had a lot of fun with the garden hose flushing those little bastards out.

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