As God is my witness, I believed mice could fly

[Bricker]

Or: there are too many motherfuckin’ snakes on this motherfuckin’ island.

Or come up with your own headline.

[johnpost]

here i come to save the day

[CalMeacham]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week began dropping the expired rodents packed with 80 mg of the generic equivalent of Tylenol on the forests of Naval Base Guam.

Since scientists discovered that the household pain reliever was deadly to the brown tree snakes, they’ve been trying to figure out how to get it to where many of the serpents live in the canopies of the island’s forests, according to a report in Stars & Stripes. The Tylenol-loaded mice are attached to two pieces of cardboard joined by paper streamers that snake exterminators hope will catch on tree branches, providing deadly snacks for snakes at those heights, according to the Stripes report.

Snake1: Ouch! That mouse landed on my head. Now I’ve got a headache!

Snake 2: Eat a mouse. They’re full of pain relievers!

[lieu]

Hmmm… they can’t really shout out the normal warning when dropping stuff from above.

Does the cardboard make it buffered asprin?

When the choppers are approaching the island, do they play Ben over the loudspeakers?

[StGermain]

Rx - “Take two mice and call me in the morning.”

StG

[Aji_de_Gallina]

@Bricker

Or: there are too many motherfuckin’ snakes on this motherfuckin’ island.

Or come up with your own headline.

I knew the snakes were a problem, but if it got to this point where drug-filled dead mice thrown from airplanes, it’s the armageddon.
The radio transmitters give it a sci-fi feels.

REVENGE: Kamikaze mice apply post-mortem whoopping. “You had it comin’”

[Wile_E]

Murine will get that out!

[Ludovic]

@Aji_de_Gallina

I knew the snakes were a problem, but if it got to this point where drug-filled dead mice thrown from airplanes, it’s the armageddon.

As opposed to dropping them from automobiles, which would make it carmageddon…thanks, tip the waitress.

[CalMeacham]

The last time they tried something like this, it was a disaster. The U.S. Navy tried the idea of dropping bats with incendiary bombs tied to them on Japan. Most of the bats, refrigerated to kept them dormant, never woke up and splatted into the ground:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=154284

[tdn]

@CalMeacham

Snake1: Ouch! That mouse landed on my head. Now I’ve got a headache!

Snake 2: Eat a mouse. They’re full of pain relievers!

Snake1: Die, fledermaus!

[running_coach]

Serious question: What would induce a snake to eat a dead mouse strapped to a piece of cardboard?

Wouldn’t the mouse need to be alive to be regarded as prey? And wouldn’t the cardboard interfere with ingestion?

[Little_Nemo]

Twenty snakes per acre and they’re worried about it? Brazil’s Ilha de Queimada Grande has an average snake density of five snakes per square meter. And they’re venomous.

[Dag_Otto]

@runner pat

Serious question: What would induce a snake to eat a dead mouse strapped to a piece of cardboard?

We’re logistics, we just deliver the mice.

Marketing is in charge of whatever is printed on the cardboard in order to sell the product. You’ll have to ask them, they’re two doors down.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Little_Nemo

Twenty snakes per acre and they’re worried about it? Brazil’s Ilha de Queimada Grande has an average snake density of five snakes per square meter. And they’re venomous.

::Makes note to never go to Brazil’s Ilha de Queimada Grande.::

[Morgenstern]

Why was I thinking of Marley23’s user title when I read the article?

[Darth_Panda]

This just in:

Tylenol futures soar on the wings of mice…

[smithsb]

I’ve had dead mice sandwiched between two pieces of cardboard before. I never went back to those restaurants again.

[Bosstone]

@runner pat

Wouldn’t the mouse need to be alive to be regarded as prey?

I don’t know the particulars of wild snakes, but the corn snake I’m currently caring for will more than happily devour thawed frozen (dead) mice.

[lieu]

@runner pat

Serious question: What would induce a snake to eat a dead mouse strapped to a piece of cardboard?

Aw c’mon… who could resist?

[running_coach]

@Bosstone

@runner pat

Wouldn’t the mouse need to be alive to be regarded as prey?

I don’t know the particulars of wild snakes, but the corn snake I’m currently caring for will more than happily devour thawed frozen (dead) mice.

Thanks, do you have to wiggle 'em or do the snakes just go for it?

ETA lieu