Up in Smoke
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In a previous post entitled: Just a Few Idiotprufs, the following passage appeared.
Don’t try to remove a hornet’s nest from your garage by burning it out; you will wind up with half a garage and a hornet’s nest.
If Mike Tingley of Grand Blanc Township, Michigan, had read that blog post maybe this wouldn’t have happened:
“That’ll take care of those bees.”
“The homeowner was doing something with a smoke bomb trying to get a bees nest out of the garage,” said Grand Blanc Fire Chief, Bob Burdette.
Mr. Tingley, while upset his garage has burned to the ground, is happy the bees are gone.
Mr. Tingley’s neighbor, whose garage is now the home for the bees in question and whose own house suffered a great deal of smoke damage, had the following to say about the incident: Mike’s always been a #$@$%@# idiot.
“We’ll be staying on high alert,” Fire Chief Burdette commented. “Evidently Mr. Tingley has 20 gallons of gasoline, a blowtorch, and a plan for getting rid of the carpenter ants infesting his front porch.”
The Fire Chief then paused for a moment before adding, “I certainly hope none of his children ever contract head lice.”
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They make a spray that, if you empty an entire can directly on the nest as directed, will anger your wasps until they evacuate to the opposite side of the room, stinging you to death along the way. Short of that, I think most pest control companies suggest a strategy they call “short sale and move” but I’ve successfully removed small nests with a pressure sprayer (at a great distance) mere seconds before running like hell. For best results, make sure annoying neighbor children are gathered ’round—the angry survivors may be appeased by this offering.
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The Annoying Neighbor Kid and the Angry Wasp is the title of the children’s book I’m working on.
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Are you having that illustrated, or do you need photographs? Because I think I saw something under the eaves by the garage…
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Photographs please.
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