Varmints, Revisited
Well, I saw more signs of our classroom varmint today. Fortunately, the sighting did not involve blood. Just some - droppings.
Seeing this reminded me of a story I heard from Jason last week after I told my Mouse Blood story. This story also involves varmints, but on a much bigger scale. It seems that a farmer somewhere in California was having quite the ground squirrel infestation at his place. Tiring of this, he decided to try a new method. This method involved filling the tunnels in the ground with propane and then throwing a match down one of the holes.
It turns out that this method was indeed quite effective. All ground squirrels were effectively eliminated - including the flaming one that shot out of one of the holes onto the adjacent field - starting a fire that eventually burned several acres of land.
