What was the last living thing you killed?

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I just found a small ant crawling on a box of toffees and I'm afraid to say I squashed it.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

No you're not - you think it makes you a big man.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably a spider, but I can't even really remember the last time since my cat likes to eat them.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

A tiny ickle miniscule spider was on my iron this morning, thought it was a wee bit of fluff at first, tried to pick it up to go show boyf and sorta squished it, oops...

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

A small peasant child trespassing on my land.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:40 (twenty-three years ago)

A beetle that Lixi tells me is a skater. I crushed it with hands and felt it snap - I have now made resolution not to kill any more of the buggers (unless they are in the bath in which case DOWN THE PLUGHOLE FUCKERS!!!)

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I once watched a thing on tv wot said if you wash spiders down the plughole they just cling on further down the pipe and then crawl back out again a couple of days later. Nobody beleives me when I tell them...

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

a slug

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Discounting invertebrates, the last thing I killed was a speckled trout. It was yummy.

― fletrejet, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably one of the many bugs floating in the bath. Unless they were dead already.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Two mice. I drowned them.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

a wasp. I trod on it.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

an orc. critical hit and all that.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was probably a bug of some type. (The epick rat-slaying happened six years ago.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Fruit fly + my lightning fast thumb = death

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

We've heard all about Colin's "lightning-fast thumb"...

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A nasty-looking beetle that was clinging to my bedroom wall. It got squished then flushed down the loo. Oh, and a lot of flies that were hanging around in the kitchen; I sucked them up with the vacuum.

Taking after my mum, I don't kill spiders. She had this theory that they would eat all the other nasty bugs if we left them alone.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I only kill by proxy. If an insect is annoying me, or spider terrifying me, I fetch a cat and get them to "play" together.
The last thing the cats played with was some wierd multi-legged red thing in the bath.
If I can't find a cat I tend to throw insects into the bath until they starve, or get eaten by the other insects in there, or the cats play with them. Dead or nearly dead insects are then fed to the Venus Fly Trap.

― Celeste (Celeste), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Flys commonly get the elastic band treament from me (very effective if occasionally messy). I also feed them to my Venus Flytrap.

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I think probably a snail, which I accidently trod on. I'm usually very good about trapping insects (beer mat and glass method) and releasing them into the graden, though the grasshopper I caught last summer probably didn't last long out there.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, when spiders die, they're corpses release a chemical that attracts other spiders to them, some kinda survival-eat-your-fallen-comrades kinda thing.

Moral of the story: when you crush spiders, flush 'em down the toilet.

Last thing I killed: about 50 ants. I was on a smiting-spree.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably a spider, but it's been a while. When my wife still lived here, I would have to be killing spiders pretty regularly, because she was terrified of them, but now I hardly notice them, and ignore them when I do.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

A ladybird...and I hide my head in shame.

It was lying on my bed, so I tried to rescue it from getting squashed. Unfortunately it decided to crawl onto the underside of my hand, thus plunging to its death.

WHY do they come to me to die???

― bert, Tuesday, 21 January 2003 20:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel bad about it now, but when I was a kid, 8 or 9 or so, I once hypnotised a frog by rubbing it's belly, then burned a hole through it with a magnifying glass. Does this mean I'm going to be a serial killer I wonder?

― Colin Saunders (csaunders), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 20:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I shot a fox with a catapault.It was worrying my little brother's rabbit every evening,and after it had managed to tear a gash through the felted roof on the bunny hutch I thought it was time to act.One visit to the sporting goods shop later,and I was the proud owner of a Black Widow high-power catty and some tasty ammo.I set up camp on the roof of the shed,with a clear view of the hutch.As expected,the fox turned up as it got dark,and i took my aim.I suprised myself with my accuracy,but not as much as I suprised the fox.The thing screamed,turned and went to bail over the fence.But it suddenly flopped down onto the patio and twitched a bit,much to the horror of my brothers,who bawled for nearly an hour and a half.Ungrateful buggers.

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

a catapult!!! I've never used siege equipment in my life. sigh.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 21:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll admit it . . . a nasty NY cockroach. Perhaps I should spear the next one on a toothpick-pike in my bathroom as an example. They just aren't getting my subtle "hints" that the land war is not going their way, at least in the short term.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Eugene is my new hero.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Today, by accident, I killed a spider with an Animal Liberation Front postcard.

Can you ironically kill things?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 24 January 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

wasp nest

― ducklingmonster, Friday, 24 January 2003 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Women aren't such a mystery

― Kiwi, Friday, 24 January 2003 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

when i was last in oamaru i got some roadkill: a hedgehog. i would have run over that possum too, but then i spared a thought for my poor car. sorry, new zezland, i have failed you.

― di smith (lucylurex), Friday, 24 January 2003 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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