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Unluckily enough, I live in a surburban area, so I have to be content
with letting the animals stare at my headlights as I run them over

So far, my animal fatality rate is 0, but I'm working on it!

So what about you people from "out there", how many animals have
you wasted on grounds of being a pest?

Nothing that could potentially shoot back.

HemlockGrey wrote:Nothing that could potentially shoot back.

Hrm, I once heard about a hunter on Oprah saying a deer raped him

1. Ants

- With various custom made chemical concoctions from the laundry, delivered with a handy empty window cleaner/starch/etc sprayer, as well as the usual methods.

2. Moths

- With the control box from an old trainset- plugged in and set to full power, striking the cables against the bolts they were attached to at the back (IIRC- it was a long time ago) produced electrical discharges sufficient to burn them if they were placed correctly.

3. Spiders

- With my shoe. If they're small enough. If large, I run.

4. Rat

- Once, with a 2 by 4.

5. Mice

- Several occasions- drowned them with a hose, they were infesting our bird cages

6. Cockroaches

- Traditional manner

7. Lizards (very small ones)

- I'd disect them with kitchen knives. Once, I pulled out it's innards and it's heart was still beating. It then died. Most of the time, I just stepped on them, or tried to chop them in half.

8. Flies

- Traditional method, sometimes an electric fly swatter

That's about it. I was a very disturbed child, I don't do most of that anymore.

A few frogs, mice, and various insects (mostly roaches and spiders).

Small household insects, but that's it.

I once closed a door on a lizard and cut it in two. It seems lizards are purple on the inside.

I used to drown, burn, and crush ants all the time. I also did freezing "experiments" on them.

EDIT: Forgot about fishing, in which case theres plenty, from both a regular fishing pole and a rifle.

--What about those animals I killed on account of them being yummy?

Some people here and there.

Mostly Insects and the occasional Rainbow Trout. I like to go fishing sometimes with a few friends. Funny thing is i don't even like fish.

Spiders - an act of pure laziness and cowardice - I could haul them outside and set them loose in the garden, but as a rule, I just squish em, it tends to be easier. What a bastard I am.

Flies - in a fit of trying to prove that I can catch them, ala ninja.

I may kill other things, we could explore the possibility that everytime I make a choice I have severe repurcussions on the outside world, I mean, if a butterfly flaps its wings and causes a hurricane, then I'm being tried for war crimes by seven different solar systems.

I grew up in Humbolt...

Deer: Two killed by Car, 1 by rifle.

Snakes: 1 killed by .22 cal rifle (rattlesnake to be exact)

Yeast: Enough to qualify as a genocidal maniac

Skunks: Usually I don't hit them, however in Febuary of last year I killed 7 in one trip (I swear they were scuicidal...)

Kangaroo Rats: something about driving through death valley at night the little carnivourus rats just do a mass charge on your vehicle... (Erm I lost count...)

Countless ants, bugs, spiders, centipedes, and other such pests. Killed them by stomping on them, burning them with a magnifying glass, lighter, homemade flamethrower and who knows what else.

Squirrels. Damn things kept chewing up our TV cable and phone line and pissing me off by running on the eavestroughs outside my bedroom, so I started taking shots at them with a slingshot and later on a pellet gun. I've also killed a bunch of them with my parent's car.

Salmon. We have salmon on a river not far from where I live and I've caught, killed, and eaten a few of them.

Bird. Some bird flew right through the wheel of my mountain bike while I was riding along and got shredded good.

Snakes. Ran over and killed a few snakes while biking up at my friend's cottage.

Frog. We caught a frog at our local park and played with it a bit. We were throwing it around and playing catch with it when we somehow killed it.

Racoons. The damn things keep digging up our garden and going through our trash cans. I've killed quite a few of them with my slingshot and pellet gun. They're surprisingly hard to kill, standard steel slingshot ammo just stuns them a bit so I was using lead pellets and fishing weights. It takes multiple shots from a pellet gun to do the trick unless I get a lucky shot through the eye which I managed a couple times. The best kill was when I put an arrow through one with my GF's archery set. I knew that taking archery in high school and summer camp would pay off!

Bodycount so far this year.
1 salmon
10+ squirrels, 3 shot, the rest roadkilled
3 racoons, 2 shot, 1 roadkilled
1 bird. Euthanized it after it crippled itself flying into my bedroom window

Lots of insects.

When I was learning how to drive, I had my mom in the car, and we were driving along, and out of the center divide (which was a planter), a rat ran out. I was in the left-hand lane, and so of course I had no time, whatsoever, to react. We just saw the thing run under the tire, but the elapsed time was only a fraction of a second. I kept driving, but my mom started hitting me in the shoulder and going "Michael, don't kill it. Don't kill it." Apparently she hadn't realized that the thing was already flattened and at least fifty yards behind us, when she started doing this. I actually thought it was pretty funny, having recovered from my initial shock.

Anyway, I've been fishing a couple of times. I've killed twenty or twenty-five king salmon (some people say they die even if you release 'em), and about a hundred and fifty sockeye salmon, with a few silvers mixed in. A few trout, here and there, and a couple of dolly varden. Oh, and three halibut.

A lot of snails - by accident. I feel guilty everytime I accidentally step on a snail.

(probably because they aren't as annoying as insects)

I'm a Cereal Killer.

Slugs, snails, a robin, John F. Kennedy, ants, yellow jackets. Nothing big. I live in the suburbs but I still don't see much wildlife.

Raxmei wrote:Slugs, snails, a robin, John F. Kennedy, ants, yellow jackets. Nothing big. I live in the suburbs but I still don't see much wildlife.

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Mitth-raw-nuruodo wrote:

Raxmei wrote:Slugs, snails, a robin, John F. Kennedy, ants, yellow jackets. Nothing big. I live in the suburbs but I still don't see much wildlife.

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LOL.... I think....

About 4 or 5 ducks and assorted insects and other small animals.

OMH you guys have an extensive and yet strangely accurate kill list, do you like write these down in a journal at home ?

Ducks, Squirrels, Rabbits, Deer, Geese, plus some other assorted birds and very small mammals

No killing, but I have to remove dead animals from pool skimmers on a daily basis. One time I had to remove this dead, bloated rat and the fucker exploded all over my hands. Almost threw up right there.