Bug murder: are you guilty?

Have you ever done any of the following to bugs?

Burnt bugs with a magnifying glass. 3
Put salt on slugs or snails. 10
Pour gas or other irritating liquid down an ant hill. 1
"Freeze" bugs with hairspray. 8
Catch bug, put in toilet, watch it try to swim, then flush. 12
Make bugs fight to the death. 2
Pull legs,wings or other body parts off and leave for dead. 6
More than 1 of the above. 43
All of the above. 16
All of the above and more. (COMMENT!!) 10
Other (Add a comment) 20
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Comments ( 67 )
  • pixie_dust

    I HATE flies, bcuz u know they're feces everywhere, and then they come and land on your food!! despicable creatures!! I usually about living creaturebut flies are just horrid.

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  • I try to make it as quick as possible and I feel bad if I didn't kill them in the first swat. As a kid, I would save grasshoppers and dragonflies from my swimming pool. If they looked only freshly drowned, I'd put them on the deck, on their back, and press their tiny thorax gently, as if to give them CPR. They would sometimes reanimate, but I doubt it was from my "CPR" and more probably I had frightened them into action.

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  • IINtobeaninjasquirrel?

    i ate a spider when I was 4 :3

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    • Pika-girl

      Ew! I only ate a spider...WEB!
      Taste like kiwis...

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  • Angel_in_a_Glass_Dress

    magnifying glass and various chemicals to kill them - especially flies. flies don't like perfume or spray deodorant :) and sometimes a burial at the toilet if they won't die easily

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  • Audacia

    I laughed at this one''Catch bug, put in toilet, watch it try to swim, then flush''

    Except, I'll probably throw it down their then have a piss on it. Then flush ;) haha i try to be nice sometimes, I only do that with the really big ass spiders which look freaky.

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  • Doodlebrain

    I sucked one up with a hoover today. It all happened so fast... :(

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    • Jerid

      it's not your fault, don't be sad, he is in bug heaven now!

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  • zchristian

    I have smacked flies and spiders most other bugs i have just stomped on becourse i didnt see them...

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  • FocoUS

    Make it swim in the toilet and take off body parts

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  • kiki91

    it's funny because i will kill flies and not feel a thing, but when i accidentally step on a roley poley, :(

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    • Pika-girl

      Yeah....Wowey powey! No-ho-ho! Why djou die-hie-hie! Come back! ;.(..

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  • I literally put a fly in the toilet then took a sh** on it.

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  • hiyer1

    I used to do this kind of thing when I was younger... but looking at that list now quite frankly made me cringe.

    I never kill bugs, if I find them in my house I take them outside.

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  • mateo

    i used to put a bunch of different bugs in a little bug Colosseum and have bug battle royals

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  • WolfenCub

    instead of burning them with a magnifying glass i just use my lighter. and instead of doing that to snails or slugs i do it to leeches.

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  • I took a knife and would cut them in million pieces. I think that's the worse thing I've done to bugs.

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    • NothingxCrazy

      Haha! I've never heard of that before. Were they big bugs or small?

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      • It started with grass hoppers. Moved to beatles but I hated those cause of the big "crunch" they would do. So I went to worms and I cut them in 10 pieces and it still kept moving. I was like, fuck it all and I stoped doing it, haha. (Of course I didn't say fuck it all at the age of 10 but you know what I mean)

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        • NothingxCrazy

          I cut a worm before but it was only to use it for fishing.. does that make me a bad person? :(
          Haha. At least you were only 10. If you were a teenager I'd think there was something wrong with you. :P

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          • Nah, it doesn't make you a bad person. I probably am though. The fish I blinded with a fishing hook probably agrees. There is something wrong with me, I just can't seem to pin point what it is <.<

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  • Just spraying cockroaches with enough bug spray for it to swim in.

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  • I am definitely guilty of the snail/slug thing. I pour a circle of salt around them and watch as they get confused and try to 'run' over it. Then a smile creeps across my face as they slowly stop and dissolve.

    I'm sorry but I have a phobia for those types of creepy crawlies...

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    • What does the salt do?

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      • The salt basically causes them to disappear, literally. They kind of dissolve away. I've never done it myself since I hate killing insects, though I hate insects as a whole so it's a bit contradictory XD

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        • Pika-girl

          Wow! Im interested! :O

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        • Wow! How do people know that? lol

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          • zchristian

            I find it evil...

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  • Leothelinxx

    I used a syringe and filled a snail with glue and watched it dry out.

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  • Southwestphilly

    No, I'm not a bug murder, as I was taught compassion. I hate slugs and would like to salt them, but I just quickly move on without hurting them. I believe in Karma.

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  • salt doesn't make snails dissolve away i've tried it
    it didn't work it just slows them down and then kills them is all it does

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  • i put fire-crackers down bee holes and lite them
    sometimes i get stung on the neck and arms.

    and i poor bleach soap &amp; ammonia down mole hills
    make a hole in the hill and poor it in to run
    them off and hold your noise so you don't breath
    it in.

    and i let wolf-spiders fight with house-spiders
    in a jar the wolf-spider always wins.

    and i have put roaches in the microwave when we use to have roaches but we don't anymore.

    i put worms in light sockets and turn it on
    it stinks like hell tho.

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    • Pika-girl

      Your horrible! Too much! At least I killed 2 while you killed- gosh! Now I feel sorry.

      Oh yeah! Reminder! People who live in Hayward, bed bugs are going around this October and November, so...I don't know, just try to avoid getting bitten.

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      • and these poor people that i know do have bed bugs
        right now at this time.

        i do have to say don't try the worm in the light socket because it does stink bad.

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        • Pika-girl

          Ok! I'm trying to search for other ways.

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          • thats good

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            • Pika-girl

              Dang! It's taking me a while to find other ways! An' now... I am very itchy!

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      • chewy

        Will you be my friend?

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        • Pika-girl

          Yes! I'd love to!! ^\\\^ Oh, I'm sorry...I was new here, so you're my first friend and I'm too excited!

          ^¬^

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  • Pika-girl

    Just last night I saw a moth got my mom's slipper and said, "DIE!" Then, I slammed the slipper on it.

    Instead of putting bugs in the toilet, I put them in my pool... 'cause it's bigger! :D

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  • 777electric

    No, because unlike every human on the earth I don't have a complete disregard for life and think that anyone who kills insects on purpose should be killed themselves.

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  • baryaqueen

    Interesting topic really, but I think the poll choices are quite useless. :\ I thought it'd have black &amp; white choices such as "yes or no", there's just too much specification. Again, still interesting though.

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  • lilblueguy

    LOL you guys ever threw a bug into a spiders web?

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    • Pika-girl

      Yeah! A lil' ladybug. I think it was rude for that "lady" bug...

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    • Bubbles-for-life

      i did! when i was 4 i said to myself ″hmmm if i give the spider an ant it will eat the ant not me :]″

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  • I don't kill bugs anymore apart from enormous spiders and mosquitoes. When I was a kid I used to catch bluebottle flies and pull their wings and legs off. Horrific really. Nowadays I just brush bugs away.

    Actually maybe a year ago I sprayed hairspray on a wasp. It was in the bathroom and I was in the bath. It was too retarded to actually fly out of the window and naturally I didn't really want to help it incase it stung me. As I sprayed hairspray on it, it's wings gradually froze up and the buzz went from high pitched to as low as a bumble bees and then finally it fell out the window. I didn't feel guilty about that one.

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  • Michael137

    I once tried to teach non-aquatic bugs to swim when I was young, it was very unsuccessful. I can't think of a time when I've deliberately harmed a bug or other animal, this makes me feel rather happy :)

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    • Pika-girl

      Ladybugs would go in our backyard. I would dunk them in the pool and they're still alive! They just can't fly...

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  • KokoroComplex

    Books I rarely use- and only for bugs that are in my room. I slam the books on them >_<

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  • tarheelman1992

    I trap flies in between my window and the screen so they can breathe but they cant eat. So they just starve to death.

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  • Aurora93

    Why is there no "no I'm not evil" option?

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  • catywompus

    I like bugs and insects. The only ones I despise and kill are the ones that want blood. Espesially skeeters! They make me sick

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  • abhishek_t87

    Except making them fight to do that... Tell me a technique i would like to try this one....

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    • You need to find 2 bug species that don't get along, many types of ants will typically fight many other insects. Put them in a jar together and the fight ensues.

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      • a red & black velvet-wasp and a queen-ant try it if you can find one

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        • Pika-girl

          ☆˛☆ I got sharp eyes!

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          • thats good to have

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            • Leothelinxx

              Keep this text going til you can't read it!

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      • Pika-girl

        Well...I remember in fourth grade, we read a story called the Three Strong Women. We played outside and found 2 thorn bugs. We put 1 on top of the other and had A Sumo Buggy Match. It was cute 'cause we had our own crowd!

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  • fightagainstheyouth

    I find harming any creature to be absolutely horrible! Their life has the same amount of value as your own. What somebody decided to squish you, just because they could? It's so wrong.

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    • Leothelinxx

      bugs only have a life span of 3 days and they also can't feel pain.

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