mousetrap
March 1st, 2006 by Lawrence David
this really is a better mousetrap. the idea is that you balance a toilet paper roll on the end of a table and place a bit of food at the unsupported end. when the mouse goes for the food, the toilet paper roll will give way and fall into a bucket you’ve placed beneath the table’s edge. what a clever solution. [via boing-boing]
this may not be effective. if you recall, freshman year at penn a mouse jumped out of a tall garbage can in hemashi’s room and landed on her lap while she was sitting in bed. you may want to cap the bucket to avoid an mouse gymnastic escape tricks.
I suppose it might depend on how slick the inside of the bucket is… I caught a mouse in a tall shopping (paper) bag once and it somehow managed to crawl up the sides and balance itself on the edge of the bag… and then jumped out.
Then there’s the question of what you do with the mouse after you’ve caught it…