burn your house down. From the NY Post this morning, “A pesky squirrel turned a Florida family’s life upside down after the critter chewed through electrical wiring, sparking a fire that left their home a charred shell. Panama City firefighters rushed to the scene and were able to contain the inferno, but the home was completely destroyed. Officials determined a squirrel was the culprit behind the fire, which reduced the home — and all of the family’s prized possessions and valuables — to rubble.” This is why I don’t like these little buggers. Oh sure , they’re cute until they’re chewing your house to pieces.
The comments are spot on..
Panama City Florida looks like an interesting place to live. I was checking it out last week. When the weather here sucks like it has been now for days, I start looking for an escape route. The trouble is I don’t like humidity. I like ice and snow even less though perhaps. I say “perhaps”, because I really fucking hate humidity. Sydney used to get so bad I would walk around feeling like I was an Indonesian farmer in a rice paddy in shorts and nothing else for most of the time. It really sucked.
They have creatures like squirrels Down Under as well. They’re called Possums and they can do the same kind of damage to your house by crawling in the roof and using it as a toilet among other things. Then there are the cockatoos. If you feed a couple, by the end of the week there will be five hundred sitting on your roof staring down at you waiting for the hand-out. Somewhere I have pictures of this. Everywhere you go nature is in competition with you for living space. Even in the desert there are scorpions and other nasty things to invade your space and hurt you.
There used to be mice here but after installing some devices that send out ultrasonic noise that the rodents can’t stand, there have all run away. These things are fairly new and in the past they didn’t really work. The ones they make in China now are pretty much 100% effective. This is one of the most exciting technical breakthroughs in recent times. Forget AI, these things have improved life on earth measurably, but nobody talks about it. I’m here to say they are the best thing since sliced bread.
Animals in pic related are not to scale obviously, but it drives them all crazy. Thanks China! According to Wikipedia they don’t work at all. “Based on a review of tests of six commercial products, a report made at the University of Lincoln, Nebraska in 1995 concluded that all the devices, when evaluated at a range of frequencies and decibel levels, were insufficient in repelling rodents.”
“The EPA pursued legal action against purveyors of the products, and none were subsequently marketed as a result of fines against the manufacturers.” In 1995 they didn’t work, but now 20 years later they abso-fucking-lutely do, because I have no mice at all where they used to be running around in my house like it was the permanent mouse olympics all day and all of the night. Those Wikipedia communists need to update their entry.
Good Day
This version appears to have the original soundtrack. Dave Davies plays a wrong chord about the 2.19 minute mark. It’s written all over his face.