I just shot a fly in half with a rubber band, and I felt I needed to tell someone. Then I thought to myself "SELF!! I'd bet all my friends on the Magic Café would LOVE to hear about killing flies" And here we are now.

Mind you, it was not in the air at the time, but it had in fact landed on the top of my doorframe, so I took the opportunity to rubberband it's *** and now it's in fly heaven. (Mind you again, I didn't use a fancy "Brites" band, those are for magic. I used a cheap Rite Aid band).

A while ago at a retreat for the Youth Orchestra, there happened to be a lot of flies (and I happened to have lots 'o' rubber bands) so my standpartner and took no mercy on any fly that strayed to close to our music.

The two most memorable however, were:

When my friend used a broken Q-tip inside a tube which had been sitting around, as a blowgun, and shot a fly in half that was sitting on my window.

And

One time when a fly was buzzing around my room which was so annoying to me I swiped at it with a pair of nunchakus and I actually hit it, sending it soaring across the room. It died upon impact when it smashed into the mirror. The same thing happened at school once except I used my hat instead of nunchukus.


Basically, flies are gross, loud, and annoying, and they deserve what's coming to them.

Anyone else have similar experiences?

Grabbed one with my bare hands. Pulled his wings off. Tied a string of dental floss around his head. Kept him for a pet for a while. Fed him to the fish in the fishtank.

I once broke a dragonfly in half with a BB gun at 20 feet. It was more of an explosion. Ha! Ha!

You ***s!

Just wait until god appears with his rubberbands.

It's not as if I hunt them down, they come to me and keep flying in my ear. As far as I'm concerned, any fly who gets in my face is a fly with a death wish.

I've caught 5 flies in my home in the last 24 hours. Really slow witted, lethargic, flies, I might add. It was no contest. I assume their wits are addled from the cold temperatures outside (it's below freezing at night, these days, in these parts).

Anyway, since I rarely find flys in my home, this is rather odd.

Now, I _did_ kill 3 or 4 spiders in my basement last week while I was cleaning up.

Maybe I upset the ecological balance in my home?

Maybe a window was just left open...

I shot a bumblebee in half with a bb gun once. Just opened my office window and -plink- 2 non-functional half bees.

Also saw my jerk of a jr. high band director get choked up one time when a fly flew into his mouth while directing. Don't know if he took the opportunity to bite it in half, though.

A fly flew into my mouth once. It actually got caught between my lips right as I was closing my mouth. I spit it out and a moment later realized what had just happened. Maybe that's where all my fly aggression comes from...

Jordini,
it seems to me that flies are very attractet to you, specially to your face.
Maybe you should think about washing it (and your ears), I've heard flies get attracted by smell a lot.

Those are normal flies. The flies that come near my face are not right in the head. They're suicidal, and I try to help them fulfil their wishes as best I can.

Euthanasia is illegal !
Except in Holland, I think.

Rather than killing them ,why not spray starch at them,and let them just GLIDE out of the window,he he

Well, nobody has discovered any of the bodies, (flushed out to sea) or the glove I buried in my backyard, so as far as I'm concerned, I have nothing to worry about.

We'll see ..... we'll see !

:bat:

I turn the air conditioning on, flight gets wiggly n slow, catch them, pour alcohol n burn the @#$@#$@#$

Here is one I rearended with a Penske moving truck a few years back.

http://static.flickr.com/33/56273325_db00dbf48c_o.jpg

I just remembered that one once flew into a halogen lamp and BBQ'd itself to death. I just remember this huge fly bothering me, then it was close to the lamp, and I heard a loud "SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss" and then there was a putrid smell.

Lowphat - you just reminded me of the worst I've seen.


I used to work in a circuit board laminate factory. We made the stuff that gets printed and etched for circuit boards. We had flies like crazy because they were attracted to the ink we used. You couldn't swat them or else you'd get a great big permanent ink splotch everywhere. One day I received a return from a customer. Apparently a fly, engorged with ink, got sandwiched in a stack of panels before they were shrinkwrapped. Well, that splotch would be bad enough, but Mama fly was carrying some fertilized eggs and they hatched and ate most of dead Mama and then the lovin' little maggots ventured out as far as they could go before they died themselves. Quite a delightful piece of work. I kept it in my office to show visitors...

That was by far the best post yet in this thread, thank you very sincerely. I would have loved to viewed such an item.

While not a fly but a flying animal...my brother and I were shooting a wrist rocket at a few starlings sitting on the wires about 20 yards from his 2nd floor balcony. (I was about 15 or so at the time) any way after about 100 shots with 1/4 inch ball bearings one hit....poof.... my first magic trick....the disappearing starling. I felt bad for a while then got over it....


Jeff