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Maryland Homeowner burns down house while fighting snake infestation

Saturday, 4 December 2021, 8:00 MJA Uncategorized 28

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No people were injured in the blaze... the status of theย snakesย …

28 Comments on Maryland Homeowner burns down house while fighting snake infestation

  4. Dumb-ass!
    I really worry about your edjumacahun system down there.

    I was always taught to use nature:
    You get a Weasel to catch the Snakes…
    A Cougar to catch the Weasel…
    A Wolverine to catch the Cougar…
    A Honey Badger to catch the Wolverine…

    THEN, You burn down the Fuckin house cause nothing Fucks with the Honey Badger!

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  5. It’s not her fault she hates snakes so much. God set her up that way after Eve’s little incident…

    “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
    Genesis 3:15

    …seems like the snakes, who are no doubt feasting on the mice and insects attracted to the ruin and are just fine, bruised her heel BIG time…

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  7. Probably dicked around with it for 20 minutes with a garden hose because they were too embarrassed to call FD, so it got WAY out of control before anyone even dialed 911, been there, seen that…

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  8. Some times those SWAG attempts just go wrong. SWAG you ask,? scientific wild ass guess. I use them all the time, trained on my old job in the computer industry.

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  14. Sometimes the only solution is a gallon of gas and a match.

    – The Bugman

    P.S. I actually do say this from time to time to get across how impossible it is to solve their problem with just chemicals. Sometimes structures are so bad they don’t, and will never, keep anything out. I advise them to make sure their insurance is up to date and to go on vacation with their valuables – we never had this conversation. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  15. It sounds perfectly reasonable to me to burn a house to the ground if it were infested with the evil spawn of Satan.

    I just wouldn’t have messed around with coals, as The Bugman said, “Sometimes the only solution is a gallon of gas and a match”. Get done what needs to be done.

    (I may have a somewhat irrational fear of snakes.)

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  16. “The pest control number must have been unlisted.”

    Every one should have a pest guy they can trust in their phone.

    I do this for any reliable, good workers I run across. I have a windshield guy that comes to your place and saves you about 50% over a brick and mortar biz. My favorite plumber has been MIA for two years now. I wish him well. Keeping my eyes open for his replacement in my line-up.

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  17. I think this guy is going to hav3e a hard time collecting on his homeowner’s insurance. The company will find 100 ways not to pay the guy fr burning his house down. There’s companies around that deal in getting rid of vermin. People around my parts are having a hard time collecting their money from the wildfires we’ve had around here from 3 years ago.

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  18. Dadof4
    DECEMBER 4, 2021 AT 8:55 AM
    “โ€œThe pest control number must have been unlisted.โ€

    Every one should have a pest guy they can trust in their phone.”

    …sometimes you have to learn who that is.

    …and sometimes it changes…

    …my food plant contracted with a professional, larger pest control for years without issue, which is pretty important in the food game. We had them doing both bugs and birds, because sometimes birds get in thru dock doors and whatnot, and the gummint and customers take a dim view of guano covered foodstuffs, and you don’t have time or means to trap them, so its a death penalty and they get shot to remove.

    This was fine until one day they sent us a young fellow who was apparently channeling Doc Holliday to deal with the birds. I don’t know what his weapon was but it looked and sounded like a .22 but shot some sort of scattering shot with a pretty good spread, but not super penetrative.

    We know this because the asshole pursued is quarry into the shop, shouldered his piece, and blasted the FUCK out of the lead engineer’s toolbox that the bird breifly perched on. Dented it a bit in several places and the crap ricocheted into the occupied room too, but happily didn’t hit anyone.

    Needless to say, we fired that company. Sending an overarmed idiot like that was unforgivable.

    We got a BB gun and scope, and took bird slaying in-house after that. Still kind of startles our Third World employees when they see a guy carrying an apparent rifle around the plant and wearing a SECURITY vest tho, I think maybe the rifles were for shooting LARGER problems where THEY come from…

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  19. Dadof4 DECEMBER 4, 2021 AT 8:47 AM
    “Sometimes the only solution is a gallon of gas and a match.

    โ€“ The Bugman

    P.S. I actually do say this from time to time to get across how impossible it is to solve their problem with just chemicals. Sometimes structures are so bad they donโ€™t, and will never, keep anything out. I advise them to make sure their insurance is up to date and to go on vacation with their valuables โ€“ we never had this conversation. ๐Ÿ˜‰”

    …while I’m sure that’s true, just FYI, as a former firefighter and having participated in fire investigations, I can tell you that’s something that does NOT escape notice if all your GOOD shit AND your pets AND a lot of your clothes are not in the house and it catches a bad case of spontaneous combustion while you’re mysteriously away from it with all of the foregoing for some reason…no, it’s not an indictment in and of itself, but it DOES make the investigators dig a little deeper and scratch a little harder and the next thing you know you’re in court because the way the fire burned and spread led the arson investigation to where the gasoline residue STILL remains even AFTER a conflaguraton trying to explain how you knew to get your quality merchandise out before…”someone” torched your fully insured but very wormy residence…

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  20. SNS… Like I was giving good advice… Silly Night Shade!

    Also, That’s why I said to have a good pest GUY in your phone. It’s very personal to trust someone in your home and in their skill set. Techs with little experience, as compared to certified applicators, are what big companies send out to do the work.

    We call them baseboard jockeys around here. No real skill, just doing rote things and not really bringing anything of value to the party except “a maintenance job is billable now”.

    Your concern about them, as an employer, is always about how much damage/wrong they can do when on their own. Your insurance rates can go through the roof because of them.

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  23. A few years ago my sonโ€™s tarantula escaped his cage. My then 17 y o daughter said โ€œthatโ€™s it! we have to burn it to the groundโ€ meaning our house. I still laugh thinking about that! This thread reminded me that ๐Ÿ˜‚

    We did find the spider

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  25. “I donโ€™t know what his weapon was but it looked and sounded like a .22 but shot some sort of scattering shot with a pretty good spread, but not super penetrative.”
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    https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/cci-.22lr-shotshell-ammunition-12-shot-31-grains-1000-fps/FC-AMM-0530.html

    Most likely .22LR snake/rat shot. I have some, but not for that kind of situation. That guy was an irresponsible moron. I would have fired him even if he only hit the bird and nothing else.

    My first introduction to that cartridge was @ 3 a.m. in a deer lease cabin when I was 8-9 years old. My cousin shot a rat that was on my jeans on the floor. What a shock.

    My first sight was a flashlight, with the smoke of gun still billowing around, showing a rat doing the Curley on it’s side with @ 5-6 little pellet holes near it just above the knee of my jeans.

    At least I had a story to tell at school about a rat and my crazy cousin when I explained why I had little holes in one pant leg.

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  26. Dadof4
    DECEMBER 4, 2021 AT 12:27 PM

    Thanks for that. I didn’t know they made snake shot that small. Doesn’t seem like it would be super lethal to humans, but I’m generally adverse to being hit with ANY sort of lead…

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  27. “Doesnโ€™t seem like it would be super lethal to humans, but Iโ€™m generally adverse to being hit with ANY sort of leadโ€ฆ”
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    Yeah. If even one pellet ricocheted back into an eye, you’re having a bad day.

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