[attrition] Don't kill bugs

[lyger]

So, earlier this week, I spied a wolf spider crawling on the wall under the 
west window in the dining room.  Being, well, me, I grabbed it in my bare hand 
to show the wife before "disposing" (read: smooshing) it.

Took it over to her, opened my hand, and it jumped onto the couch next to her. 
This made her jump.  That made me jump.  I grabbed it again to take it to the 
terlet (read: potential "target practice").  Within a second, I felt a small 
but sharp pain on my right index finger.

"OW"
"Did it bite you?"
"YES IT BIT ME"

I took Mister Pidey into the bathroom and, admittedly a bit pissed off, threw 
him into the terlet.  Well, not really... apparently, I missed the terlet and 
Mister Pidey hit the floor and disappeared.  Like, vanished. I looked and could 
not find him on the floor, in the terlet, or anywhere else.  Gone. 
Disappointed, I spent the next ten minutes smooshing my finger to get Pidey 
venom out of it, which actually did make my finger feel better.

Tonight, we were infested by Asian beetles (again), which look like ladybugs, 
but they're a tad more aggressive.  They bite too.  I saw one crawl in through 
the west window in the dining room, so I grabbed it to show to the wife. 
This time, instead of showing her, I said "follow me", meaning I was 
taking it to the bathroom terlet for "disposal" (read: malicious "target 
practice").  Once again, I threw it into the terlet... we heard a sound as 
it hit.  Both of us heard it, no mass psychosis here.  We looked...

It was gone.

Not in the terlet, not on the floor.  We shook out the rugs.  We looked in the 
sink.  We looked on the ceiling.  It was... gone.

Thusly, we have deemed that our second guest bathroom is an alternate universe 
where things may enter but never be seen nor heard from again. This concerns us 
since Taki and Fuzz (our cats) peek in there occasionaly, but we notice 
they never actually GO in there.  R cats R smrt.  They know.  Oh, they 
know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66IEW-X0N7U

Amen.