(Is this true?) Illegal to kill ants in Germany? The 4th Reich: Empire of the Ants!

[JohnBckWLD]

According to Orange/Ananova (In Leeds) and The Scotsman (Scotland’s National Online Newspaper):

”Germany has introduced new laws making it illegal to kill ants…This is a violation of federal nature protection laws and punishable with hefty fines."

I guess it’s not easy being green.

I myself really never held much animosity toward ants in my formative years. Sure, we’d blow up the occasional anthill with firecrackers as kids – but that was the extent of it. I never really put ants in the same “vermin category” as cockroaches but that attitude changed and the need for poison became reality after a flying ant attack in an apartment I used to live in. I must have used 5 cans of Raid last summer upon discovering a nest of ants behind the tile walls of the bathroom I was gutting.

I liken the use of pest control (whether it be insecticide or baking powder) around one’s property to a “No Solicitors” sign on one’s front door. Sending out a warning to unwelcome visitors seems both fair and legal.

For all I know, this law is some kind of internet hoax.

Are the Greens on the continent that powerful that they can get legislation passed that prohibits the killing of unwelcome picnic guests? Did the Dreamworks film Ants have more of a sentimental impact on the German people than it did here in the US? Don’t birds and other predatory insects do a better job of killing “conifer-destroying” pests? Don’t carpenter ants (who last time I checked fall into the category of ants) destroy trees?

Who knows. Maybe The world’s all right and I’m all wrong.

[ElwoodCuse]

Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here.

And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.


Hail Ants

[slortar]

Heh. Silly typos. Isn't that spelled "aunts"?

[AngelicGemma]

Originally posted by ElwoodCuse
Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here.

And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.


Hail Ants

A Simpsons fan! Hurrah!

Hail Ants!

[BabaBooey]

I would mention the inanimate carbon rod if I weren't against hijacking this thread.

[AngelicGemma]

Originally posted by BabaBooey
I would mention the inanimate carbon rod if I weren't against hijacking this thread.

but of course you would never do that.

[Jenaroph]

The Empire of the Ants

[JohnBckWLD]

Originally posted by BabaBooey
I would mention the inanimate carbon rod if I weren't against hijacking this thread.

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It's An Evil Planet, It's A Bug Planet!
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