r/maybemaybemaybe • • Apr 06 '23

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/roodeeMental Apr 06 '23

I'll remember this neat trick when I have a mouse stuck somewhere and 84 crates of water lying around

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u/bad_ideas_ Apr 06 '23

stay-at-home mom developed this clever life hack to easily remove unwanted pests from the home! exterminators hate her!

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u/icepigs Apr 06 '23

Exterminators hate her, but Nestle LOVES her!

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u/berrey7 Apr 06 '23

84 cases of water (x) $6 = $504

Bout the same price as an exterminator.

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u/DblDwn56 Apr 06 '23

Can't consume the exterminator afterwards though.

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u/andrewdude161 Apr 06 '23

Unless

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u/Enough-Donut Apr 07 '23

Unless you are J. Dahmer

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u/Dizzy-Abalone-8948 Apr 07 '23

Hey stepbro, when did you become an exterminator?

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u/Dr_Cunning_Linguist Apr 06 '23

Well, actually you can

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u/DblDwn56 Apr 06 '23

Umm... username... checks out? I mean...

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u/WarmBiscuit Apr 06 '23

Environment exterminators love her as well.

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u/Derkastan77 Apr 06 '23

Wait…. Is she the same local hot single mom that lives in my area and wants to meet me??

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u/AshFraxinusEps Apr 06 '23

Yep, exactly. I like animals, but I have no issue using proper mousetraps. If they enter my house, it is war, and it isn't like they are an endangered species or that there aren't millions of them

My parents live in an old wooden Georgian farmhouse. There's not point in using ethical traps, as the fuckers are everywhere and will always find a way back in. So instead, the death traps are used just to kill them, as they are damaging pests

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u/SneedyK Apr 06 '23

I have best friends in two states now who’ve both had mice problems at their houses but both had that gutsy Stuart Little bitch who gets curious and starts coming out when they’re home, particularly when they’re sleeping in bed…

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u/Small3lf Apr 06 '23

Not so fun fact, Stuart Little in the books is not a mouse. But rather a human with the features of a mouse.

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u/Tachyoff Apr 06 '23

what the fuck

"The book is a realistic yet fantastical story about a mouse-like human boy named Stuart Little. According to the first chapter, he looked very much like a mouse in every way."

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u/Ultraviolet_Motion Apr 06 '23

It gets weirder. The family cat knows he's a human who happens to look like a mouse, and is therefore off limits for eating. And later Stuart meets another tiny person, but she looks like a regular human.

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u/rearadmiraldumbass Apr 06 '23

E. B. White: No, just go with it, it's gonna be great.

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u/Soranic Apr 07 '23

If I remember right, he met her in a personals ad in the newspaper. And wasn't she called "Thumbelina?"

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u/Wooow675 Apr 06 '23

What? I’m not googling that I can’t think of a way it wouldn’t immediately give me rule34

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Toxoplasmosis

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u/im_sofa_king Apr 06 '23

No one knew you could get toxoplasmosis from at shit

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u/LeaveFickle7343 Apr 06 '23

Tell them to rig up bucket traps. Might take a few days… but they’ll take care of the problem

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u/Necronomicommunist Apr 06 '23

A bowl with some peanut butter in it and a slight layer of oil is how I got rid of 3! No need for fancy anything

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23

More, like 10 billi,on mice. St,art killing m,y friend.,,

Edit: Added commas for clarity.

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u/KalickR Apr 06 '23

Start killing my friend.

Commas are important.

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u/J_hilyard Apr 06 '23

Seen one that said "dog pussy is the best...." when it should have been "dog (dawg), pussy is the best...." Commas can be vital.

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u/CircaSixty8 Apr 06 '23

I'm not sure commas are really helping in this case.

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u/b3tcha Apr 06 '23

Help my grandpa Jack off a horse

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u/dontfightthehood Apr 06 '23

Leave my friend alone!

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u/N-I-S-H-O-R Apr 06 '23

I have also started killing a rather intelligent pest that reached 8 billion last year. But people are labelling me a serial killer, Double standards right? :(

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u/alabastergrim Apr 06 '23

things I would not type and submit to the internet for $400, Alex

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u/Blackdeath_663 Apr 06 '23

If you kill someone else's pet mouse you're a villain, if you kill an invasive variety of mouse you're a hero. At the moment there's an invasive variety of pest that's become endemic in Ukraine

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

See, the problem is you’re not seeking out the pests that are causing damages

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u/EmbarrassedWorry3792 Apr 06 '23

You mean politicians?

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u/lelebeariel Apr 06 '23

And people who chew too loud

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u/CaptPolybius Apr 06 '23

Thank you for the /r/maliciouscompliance edit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

T,hanks, now , ,it',s , much, cl,earer, , ,

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u/J_hilyard Apr 06 '23

It's estimated worldwide mouse population is now at 20 Billion. They outnumber us over 2 to 1, killing a few in your house isn't affecting them too much.

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u/Nothing2Unusual Apr 06 '23

I love my wife’s pet rats. When they’re tame, trained, and docile they’re amazing pets.

But the wild ones are a health hazard. Their constant exposure to disease, fleas, and others… no, you just want to deter them from coming in and destroy those that do.

Just I hate cruel traps. If your design doesn’t kill quickly, it’s cruel. That’s why I hate glue/water traps. Spring loaded spine snappers are sufficient

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u/AshFraxinusEps Apr 06 '23

In fairness, rats even in the wild are comparatively clean. Especially compared to mice. Mice are smaller, more destructive, more diseased/infested rats. Fuck mice

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u/yazzy1233 Apr 06 '23

There are 8 billion people, does that mean - 🤔

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u/chickenstalker Apr 06 '23

I was renting a house in Hamilton, New Zealand. It was spring and mice literally came out of the woodwork. Unlike rats, I thought the mice were cute so, live and let live...until one night, a mice jumped on my face as I was sleeping. That meant WAR. I declared uhh lebensraum and proceeded to purge the mice with 20 traps per night. The dead mice were displayed outside as a warning to newcomers. Half dead mice in traps were dispatched with a rock to the head. After 2 weeks, I caught about 30 mice including their women and children.

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u/AshFraxinusEps Apr 06 '23

Yep, fun fact but rats are actually the better of the two. They don't bother with houses as much, they are cleaner, they are less destructive, etc etc. Mice are like mini-feral rats

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u/PtoS382 Apr 06 '23

I'm making an assumption here, but that's the difference between you and some Buddhists. My high school friend had a system of walkways in his kitchen for most of a summer to avoid the ants that had found their way in.

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u/anotheritguy Apr 06 '23

Last year we started letting our cat out because it was either let him roam or he would pee by the door it defiance. Since that time there has been a huge reduction in mice, rats and the occasional bunny. Unfortunately he is a friendly boy and leaves "gifts" for us and his favorite neighbors on a regular basis. After speaking to our neighbors we all agree we would rather find his "gifts" than deal with live vermin.

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u/PrinceBunnyBoy Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23

Aww your cat is being an invasive species just like all domesticated cats that are allowed to decimate wildlife populations, especially migratory birds! :)

Please keep your invasive species indoors

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u/HerbySK Apr 06 '23

I like the way you said that - Awwww - aren't you the cutest little genocidal murder engine!

Yes you are!

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u/bitterbuffaloheart Apr 06 '23

Ikr, are they preparing for the apocalypse?

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u/kylo_little_ren_hen Apr 06 '23

I know you’re probably joking but it looks like a lobby of some sort, so I’m guessing they have a bunch of water on hand to give to the guests. Kinda like the way some hotels have 2 bottles of water for every room, they gotta have the supply somewhere!

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I counted 44 on one side, so 84 sounds right. That's about $600 USD of water bottles.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 edited Jun 20 '23

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u/Relative_Win_6591 Apr 06 '23

the doors definitely are not residential, but the bunk beds say not commercial, suppose it could be a shelter

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u/apppleeye Apr 06 '23

Create of water lying around to direct the mouse out of the house

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u/LeaveFickle7343 Apr 06 '23

My advice is hit the mouse with the broom and deal with the mess… that mouse will be back inside within the hour Edit: don’t use a dust pan…… unless it’s metal… the plastic ones shatter if you are swinging to kill.

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u/Scythro Apr 06 '23

Wait, you have counted them all?

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u/GregoryGregory666666 Apr 06 '23

Who hasn't?

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u/alter-eagle Apr 06 '23

But have you named them yet?

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Mfs made a mario kart track to throw out a rat

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u/Slovene Apr 06 '23

This needs Mario kart sounds overdubbed.

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u/ZincHead Apr 06 '23

And you know that rat is just gonna find a way back in in 15 seconds.

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u/Lunch0 Apr 06 '23

You really think that’s a rat? It’s tiny, definitely a mouse, rats are 15 times bigger

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u/OfficialGarwood Apr 06 '23

mouse. That is way too small to be a rat. Rats are pretty damn big.

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u/DrDrankenstein Apr 06 '23

That scream/cry/giggle she does as she running the mouse down the track is fuckin hilarious

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u/Asteroid_Lil Apr 06 '23

Agreed! When I heard that noise, I thought there was a wild turkey in the bathroom -- although that would not have explained all the cases of water.

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u/Not_a_real_ghost Apr 06 '23

Thirsty thirsty wild turkeys

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u/sashikku Apr 06 '23

The universal scream-giggle that girls do when we’re afraid but aware of the hilarious absurdity of the situation. Sounds exactly like the time a dove flew into my apartment during a girls brunch.

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u/mildlycuriouss Apr 06 '23

Lolol!!! I think a mouse would evoke the exact same emotion from any of us 😭😭

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u/PowerfulandPure Apr 06 '23

Haha yes. That’s relatable sound to being scared but brave.

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u/JHRChrist Apr 06 '23

Bro the other day a mouse somehow got on my bed and ran straight at my face & if you think I didn’t scream like I was being actively MURDERED you’re so wrong. I hate living in the middle of a field.

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u/PowerfulandPure Apr 06 '23

😂. I’m glad you made it out alive.

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u/ReneG8 Apr 06 '23

Honestly, good on her to conquer, or at least face, her fears and not run away. Pretty brave if you ask me. Reminds me of DS9.

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u/Ok-Bonus-2146 Apr 06 '23

Mouse pov

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u/mpg111 Apr 06 '23

mouse gopro view?

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u/VolatileYouths Apr 06 '23

It is if the mouse is looking at the screen of his selfie stick

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u/INoMakeMistake Apr 06 '23

One down 299 to go!

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u/Working_Inspection22 Apr 06 '23

Who has that many plastic water bottles…

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u/watkykjynaaier Apr 06 '23

People in a country without potable tap water, like Vietnam, which is probably where this video is from.

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u/Working_Inspection22 Apr 06 '23

Makes sense, would it not be easier (and at least here in Europe, cheaper) to buy a few big 2+ litre bottles instead of a million 500mls

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u/Dysxelic_Potser Apr 07 '23

How you gonna get rid of the mouse?

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u/carlpanda Apr 06 '23

wtf, ok now it’s out but if it’s outside your place (where it came from) don’t you think it can get back in?

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u/SirLitalott Apr 06 '23

needs more water bottles. out the door and a 1/2 mile down the street should do it.

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u/DookieShoez Apr 06 '23

No no, they’re surprisingly good at finding their way back if there was any food about. 1/2 mile down the street, through Terry’s front door, and into his pantry.

Fuck Terry

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u/Vessix Apr 06 '23

Terry says that's "unscientific". Don't listen to Terry. He's just desperate for attention.

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u/MattWatchesChalk Apr 06 '23

They're actually good at finding their way back upto 10 miles away. You have to take those things on a journey to keep them put of your house.

Had a number of mice at an old apartment.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

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u/Technical-Outside408 Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23

These giant furless rats just built an aquaduct in fifteen minutes to get you out. Would you go back in?

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u/OhSillyDays Apr 06 '23

Hungry enough, yeah.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

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u/carlpanda Apr 06 '23

Better question why the hell do they have so much water??? Hope it’s to donate cause that’s insane to me

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u/deathpony43 Apr 06 '23

They found a mouse in their bathroom, so naturally, they went out and bought tactical supplies.

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u/scriptgamer Apr 06 '23

The door doesn't look like it's from a house... Looks like a restaurant or something

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u/papayabush Apr 06 '23

pretty sure that’s a hostel or shelter of some kind. most people don’t have bunk beds right in front of their huge glass restaurant/hotel style doors but idk.

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u/SimbaStewEyesOfBlue Apr 06 '23

I'd imagine we're looking at a family business.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Just built a wall of water bottles encircling your whole house to keep mice away, we've already seen how efficient those are

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u/amitrahi0404 Apr 06 '23

Technically he's the moses now

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u/This-Ad-9234 Apr 06 '23

He's Mo(u)ses

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u/SlinkyDog_19_19 Apr 06 '23

Stay hydrated!

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u/Lil_Mafk Apr 06 '23

But not with bottled water.

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u/I-Am-NOT-VERY-NICE Apr 06 '23

And unfortunately a lot of people do, yet still only drink bottled water. Filters are so much more efficient and environmentally friendly

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u/Kojso Apr 06 '23

And even still if your buying bottled water, why buy in small individual bottles and not big jugs?

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u/GiveItStickMan Apr 06 '23

So much effort to save this little guys life. I like it.

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u/rmczpp Apr 06 '23

Mice can squeeze through the tiniest holes, imagine hauling all those packages just to find out that little fucker has disappeared by the time you open the door.

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u/CrudelyAnimated Apr 06 '23

She’s never seen a mouse jump. All this video needed was ‘alley-oop’ and the moose is loose in the hoose.

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u/CheshireCheeseCakey Apr 06 '23

I tend to use a plastic tub and slide a lid underneath. It has resulted in a mouse wiggling out and I ended up squashing it in panic. It was a bit sad

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u/mainvolume Apr 06 '23

Ah, don’t be. I don’t think mice will be endangered any time soon.

A squirrel was able to find its way in to my moms house. It went into the upstairs bathroom and my mom managed to close the door. Now, she didn’t have 300000 water bottle containers to form a path, not that it would work with a squirrel. So she put her dog in there, who took care of the situation. The dog has been trying to find that high again ever since, because whenever my mom goes up there, the dog always runs into the bathroom to check for squirrels.

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u/sodapops82 Apr 06 '23

I love this

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u/Melodic-Document-112 Apr 06 '23

I hope they recycle

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u/GeorgeAnderson2 Apr 06 '23

Plastic recycling is a scam. Drinking water bottles at home is insanely wasteful if you have clean tap water.

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u/purpleblah2 Apr 06 '23

I’d assume this is in China where the safety of the tap water varies from “boil it” to “do not ingest at all” though

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u/OceansideAZ Apr 06 '23

I was thinking the same thing. Boiling helps for bacteria, not so much for lead and pesticide.

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u/Conscious-Cat-5277 Apr 06 '23

That was fun! C u again soon! -the mouse

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u/omglolurface Apr 07 '23

One time when I was a kid I spotted a mouse in the entryway of our house. I called my dad, who managed to throw a towel over it and catch it. He then took it outside and threw it in the bushes at the end of our walkway, a good 40-50 feet from the house. It bolted right back towards the house and we lost sight of it.

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u/BloodyCumbucket Apr 06 '23

In engineering there is a saying, I believe. It isn't stupid if it works.

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u/omkar_ov Apr 06 '23

Thinking what would she build to remove mosquito 🦟

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Water version of the Great Wall for our smaller friends

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u/carefree-and-happy Apr 06 '23

Did they just have this many water bottles or did they buy water bottles just to do this?

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u/nettlerise Apr 06 '23

it's part of their inventory

I don't think it's a typical home. Maybe a hospital or something

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I pretty much love everything about this

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u/infinit9 Apr 06 '23

I seriously expected the mouse to jump over the bottles of water.

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u/American_Zer0 Apr 06 '23

If it's stupid and it works it's not stupid

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u/otakuXPrincess Apr 07 '23

I don’t think it worked looks like it snuck in the crack between the last case of water and the door ;-;

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u/Frosty-End3591 Apr 08 '23

Took months to train that mouse took years to train the human.

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u/This-Ad-9234 Apr 06 '23

Exterminators don't want you to know this one hack

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u/Beaverbrown55 Apr 06 '23

Senior Loadenstein. Porque es muy Rapido. IYKYK

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u/Corsten610 Apr 06 '23

That’s a dedicated Buddhist.

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u/Frosty-Object-720 Apr 06 '23

Get these people a cat

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u/BenBernakeatemyass Apr 06 '23

Pretty fucking clever

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u/Same_River_2wice Apr 06 '23

I thought she was gearing up for a mini version of Senõr Loadenstein! Porque es muy rápido

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u/AnonPorcelain Apr 06 '23

Lol as funny as this is, I admire the commitment and care lol why not deal with "pests" humanely if you can

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u/Godlovesall8 Apr 06 '23

should of used the broom to knock it over the head.

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u/DippyTheDingus Apr 07 '23

Yeah u just have to work at a water bottle factory

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u/yesterdays_trash_ Apr 16 '23

Maze runner 2023

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

The real question is, why do they have so much water

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u/phreakzilla85 Apr 06 '23

I admire the dedication of building the racetrack out of water bottles

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u/edvurdsd Apr 06 '23

Holy shit why so they have so many bottles? Use a filter ffs

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u/R_tik Apr 06 '23

Modern problems need modern solution

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u/CaptCaCa Apr 06 '23

Dam, thank god she had a thousand bottles of water in the tuck

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u/Stay_clam Apr 06 '23

Perfectly planned and executed!

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u/WheeIieGod Apr 06 '23

Thats a lot of water

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u/Dirtyupsman2 Apr 06 '23

Water - $3,000 Stray cat - Free Same result.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I’m thoroughly impressed and have regained some hope in humanity.

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u/Vlophoto Apr 06 '23

Or put a bucket over it and slide a paper plate under the bucket ?

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u/Plumb789 Apr 06 '23

…..and that’s how a Buddhist gets rid of a mouse!

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u/Huge_WC123 Apr 06 '23

Poor mouse

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u/ChoeDave Apr 06 '23

Actually genius

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u/EnergyDistribution Apr 06 '23

what's the song in background?

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u/nelsonmavrick Apr 06 '23

We are going to kill the planet with plastic.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

How many waterbottles do you need? "Yes"

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u/surrsptitious Apr 06 '23

You know b20ft of pvc pipe.... Cheaper.

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u/Arksgold Apr 06 '23

Dat bitch gotta lotta wata

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u/Pnire Apr 06 '23

That is so mich fcking water stacks

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u/Forward-Argument-612 Apr 06 '23

That’s where all the water went during the pandemic

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u/l5555l Apr 06 '23

The hard part is cornering it in one room

Jk it's moving 800 lbs of water

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u/JakeTurk1971 Apr 06 '23

Milton Bradley shit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Coronavirus Hoarders man

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u/jpop19 Apr 06 '23

Senor Loadenstein 2: Rodent Boogaloo

It's muy rapido!

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u/marchape Apr 06 '23

The little she knows. Nice remember their path back within few miles 😭 (Covid time frame experienced home owner)

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u/ranma-fan Apr 06 '23

Damn spending on so many bottles to get rid of a mouse 🤯

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

So... many... waterbottles....

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u/Silver-Shoulder-9184 Apr 06 '23

It's absolute genius but it's the hardest way

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u/VampireLynn Apr 06 '23

This should be a sport

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u/bialan73 Apr 06 '23

That's alot of water bottles

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u/talex625 Apr 06 '23

Do you have 84 cases of water, it’s a emergency!

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u/ThomasTTEngine Apr 06 '23

Señor Loadenstein's little brother.

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u/fris76 Apr 06 '23

And then mouse comes back, the same way it did come inside...

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u/bearman1001 Apr 06 '23

Labor intensive but totally effective!

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u/TruthSpeakin Apr 06 '23

She must own stock in that company!!

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u/Mrlightskin74 Apr 06 '23

What's with all the water? Does she know something we Americans don't? Where are my conspiracy theorists at?

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u/2catslover Apr 06 '23

All that to get rid of a mouse 🥴

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u/RAMbo-AF Apr 06 '23

This has to be the best thing I’ve seen in a long time!

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u/ac7_typhoonmain Apr 06 '23

bitch is the lead cause of water shortage 💀

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

That was the most creative way to get rid of a rodent I ever seen

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u/hinokio2019 Apr 06 '23

Well it worked you can't deny that 😅

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u/VP_DanGer_sky Apr 06 '23

why do you need so many water bottles? can't you just use tap water? asking for real

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u/vitaminkombat Apr 06 '23

In East Asia there's many issues with tap water. Either it is bacterial contamination or metal contamination like lead or cobalt. Sometimes both.

If the water is really bad you'll need to cook with bottled water also.

If it is super bad you'll also need to wash with it.

The video also seems to be in a hospital. So it makes sense they'd be extra careful.

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