You can never try too hard to kill roaches.

[Shockeye]

Overzealous Owner Blows Eatery Apart
Australian Restaurant Blows Up As Owner Goes Overboard Trying to Rid It of Cockroaches

PERTH, Australia Apr 7, 2005 — An overzealous attempt to rid a Thai restaurant of cockroaches sparked an explosion that blew the eatery apart, emergency services said Thursday.

Three men were hospitalized with burns after they set off 36 cockroach fumigation devices aerosol cans filled with chemicals which apparently exploded after their contents came into contact with an oven pilot light.

Duncraig fire station officer Kieran Cooper said the blast wrecked the restaurant.

John McMillan, manager of Western Australia state's fire investigations unit, said the huge blast lifted the roof off the Tamarind restaurant in the state capital, Perth.

"The restaurant owner has used the principle that if you use twice the soap, you get your hands twice as clean. He's just overdone it," McMillan said.

[voodoolily]

My dad once killed a rat with a spear and a handgun. Both. On the same rat. The fucker wouldn't die, evidently. He fashioned the spear out of one of those Rambo knives and a broom handle.

[MaceVanHoffen]

My dad once killed a rat with a spear and a handgun. Both. On the same rat. The fucker wouldn't die, evidently. He fashioned the spear out of one of those Rambo knives and a broom handle.

Heh my grandmother once tried (unsuccessfully) to kill a mouse with a handgun when I was around 8 years old.  I was outside with my uncle when it happened.  She fired off a single shot then ran out of the house screaming.  What makes it really odd is that no one in my family can remember where she ever got her hands on the gun in the first place.  An important atmospheric detail:  I grew up in a small rural community in northwest Texas.

[voodoolily]

An important atmospheric detail: I grew up in a small rural community in northwest Texas.

I haven't the luxury of such an excuse. My dad performed his rodenticide in the middle of Portland, Oregon. I know, not quite a metropolis, but still.

[Shockeye]

What makes it really odd is that no one in my family can remember where she ever got her hands on the gun in the first place.  An important atmospheric detail:  I grew up in a small rural community in northwest Texas.

I thought that in Texas they put a gun in your hand the moment they cut the cord.

[Nazrat]

No, you get it on your first day of school.  Just in case, you know.

[SirBruce]

I had to kill a big, hairy rat (it was about the size of a large ferret) that had been feeding on our dog food for who knows how long.  We set up a dog cage at one end of its crawspace and my dad scared it out of the other with a broomhandle.  Then I stuck another broomhandle through the bars of the dogcage and crushed the vermin with the end of it.

Come to think of it, that's the most violent thing I've ever done.

Bruce

[Paelos]

What makes it really odd is that no one in my family can remember where she ever got her hands on the gun in the first place.  An important atmospheric detail:  I grew up in a small rural community in northwest Texas.

I thought that in Texas they put a gun in your hand the moment they cut the cord.

There's a county near Atlanta where you have to own a gun before you can own property.

[Triforcer]

What makes it really odd is that no one in my family can remember where she ever got her hands on the gun in the first place.  An important atmospheric detail:  I grew up in a small rural community in northwest Texas.

I thought that in Texas they put a gun in your hand the moment they cut the cord.

There's a county near Atlanta where you have to own a gun before you can own property.

How else will you keep the King of England from coming in your house and pushing you around?

[MaceVanHoffen]

I thought that in Texas they put a gun in your hand the moment they cut the cord.

In tha great country o' Texas, we're born with our guns.  If you ain't comin' outta yer momma totin' that sweet symbol o' liberty called a pistol, why they just ship you away to one o' them Yankee states right off.

Dammit, I've reverted.  Someone needs to press my reset button.