Squirrels and other varmints
I know squirrels are moles, but this thread reminded me of a sweet little old lady who lived near friends of mine down here in Jersey. The woman used to catch squirrels in one of those Have-A-Heart traps because she couldn't stand the darned things. Our friends thought she then got in her car and took them to the park or some such place and let them go. Turns out that she used to put the trap right behind her car and turn on the engine, thus asphyxiating them! It's terrible, but we still had to laugh. So much for the sweet little old lady image!
And then there is the mother of my college roommate. She was big into gardening. Lived just west of Boston. She had windows replaced in her saltbox house. Between the double-hung windows, she put in these tiny narrow ones. They were gun turrets. When a "varmint" would wander into her garden, she would open a turret and fire away. When she got one, she would draw its picture on the huge chalkboard she leaned against her old cooking fireplace in the kitchen and then "X' it out. Again, demented, but funny!
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