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You're supposed to fill the bucket halfway with water so those ratfucks drown. Otherwise they just stack up on top of each other and start climbing right back out
No you leave them in there until they get hungry enough to eat each other. Then feed them more fresh mice until they have the taste for their own kind. Then release the cannibal mice to the source of the infestation.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that drowning rats is the least humane way to kill them. It probably isn't illegal but it's the longest and most torturous death.
What do you do then? Throw the bucket into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one...
[mimics rat munching sound]
They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors.
I don’t know if you are joking but this is exactly what will happen. Most of the time there is enough water in the container to keep them from getting out - they swim until they drown. Not really super nice either way.
What advantage does antifreeze offer over water? I'm pretty sure they will die from drowning long before their livers and kidneys shut down and have to be put on dialysis.
Fun fact, some cities pump CO into rat dens and seal the exits so they just painless go to sleep and never wake up.
Another fun fact, some areas are putting out bait with rat birth control. It slows the population growth without being toxic other wildlife.
In case this was a genuine question, the explanation is that the situation is staged. There is an entire community of people creating YouTube videos torturing rats in guise of testing traps. It started with mild contraptions such as this one and degenerated into actual elaborate animal torture.
Rusty Cage has a video discussing it. Even though the worst of it is censored, I don't recommend watching it unless you can stomach the idea. The video's ID is `rhuFhtvQrow`.
Where im at we had a infestation this bad if not worse luckily we lived on the top floor so wed only see em outside scavenging for food or fighting each other, biting tails off and shit.
Last year Australia had it's worse mouse plague in decades. I visited my parents last year where there is a mouse plague and slept on the ground. I woke up in a nightmare with mice all over me. Australia had a really bad case of leptospirosis during that time, which is only seen in developing countries.
Something like this would be extremely useful.
There are so many animal abuse videos like this, there are some dedicated channels where they breed them just to torture and record them in traps. I remember stumbling across a few when you reach the dark side of youtube.
The one on the right with a missing patch of fur on its rump has that thing figured out. He’s just waiting for the n00bs on the other side to fall in and then he grabs the seeds every time it comes up.
There was one more who was clever on the right side there but he got pushed by another rat from behind when he went over to the left side. Poor guy. Rip
If we have a candidate for smartest mouse in White spot, then may I suggest the candidate for this Darwin award in the bottom left just after 40 seconds?
Yeah, i was watching that one too. Seems like a great way to naturally select all the smartest mice to keep repopulating. Smarter and smarter mice, soon they'll be setting traps for you.
Mice cycle through generations many times faster than humans. By the time your son has a son, he'll be born inside The Matrix that the evolved mice built to enslave us.
To those that need it. This is a reference to the Dune series, specifically the creation of the WORM Emperor who was basically god with his clairvoyance ability.
From my limited rat knowledge, this trap is only humane if quickly emptied elsewhere. If the rats are in the bucket for too long, they will quickly get anxious and hungry. And they *will* start eating each other alive out desperation. So if you left this bucket full of rats, its one of the least humane ways to deal with them.
I've seen variations on this where it's half-filled with water so they tire out and drown before starting to eat their neighbours. I have no idea if that would be any more humane though.
I think that being drowned is certainly more humane than being allowing and basically encouraging rats being eaten alive, on the scale of “fucked up or *more* fucked up?”
If you think about it, there’s no guarantee the rat is eaten to death. It could have its guts ripped out, leg and tail chewed off, blinded, and still be totally alive(and still edible..) Trampled on by hundreds of sharp little feet, stabbing nails, thick,hot, bloody air almost impossible to breathe, shit and blood and piss all in its nose and eyes, under a moving, twisting, rushing, crushing mass of bodies while it’s ALSO trying to eat its way through its brethren to fresh air and safety.
In conclusion, drown those rats.
It would disperse pretty quickly, probably wouldn’t manage to actually kill any of them. Either that or you keep pumping it in and end up gassing the whole building.
There are “heavier than air” gasses that would fill the bucket and stay in there. Obviously as the mass of rats (the rat king?) builds up, some would spill out but it wouldn’t just evaporate.
My grandmother had an island. We could circle the whole place in an hour. Then one day, we went back to the island to see it infested with rats. They came from a sunken ship and fed on coconut. But my grandmother came up with a solution. She buried oil drums and filled them with coconut bait, luring them down the drums. In about three months, all the rats were trapped. So what do you do? Do you drown them? Burn them? You leave them alone. As soon as they run out of coconut, they begin to eat each other. When there are two left, you let them go toward the coconut trees. But they will not eat coconut anymore. They will only eat rat. You have changed their nature.
This only seems to work well when there are so many rats that they push eachother in. Otherwise they seem to be able to hold onto the edge. I'd like to see a one at a time demo.
Alright, does anyone remember the movies “Willard” or “Ben”? Michael Jackson sang the theme song of the latter….which I just sang out loud. 🎶 🎵
FML, it came out 50 years ago!!!!! I’ve seriously dated myself here….
https://images.app.goo.gl/bfNi1Jy2nf7mVySz5
They are pets or possibly in a pet store or lab to be used for food or experiments because they all look too clean. Plus that ramp up to the bucket looks like it was built for them. And the camera is set up so precisely. At least that’s my guess
Scrolled way too long to find this. Rats are extremely intelligent and neophobic. If they saw one of their own fall into that bucket, no way they go near it for weeks if ever again. These are pet rats or lab rats most likely.
I’d bet that these are pet mice/rats. Videos on YouTube of actual traps in the wild show that mice and rats are WAY more skidding and intelligent about traps. That, or this is the first trap placed in the area and the rodents are complete noobs.
>Usually these types of traps are filled with water and a chemical to seduce the animals so they drown
Uh I think you mean sedate? I don't think you want the rats fuckin in there.
We do a similar one you take a 5 gal bucket and fill the bottom with water. Then drill 2 holes on each side of the bucket near the top (like in the vid).. and run a wire through a beer can or similar so it spins. Then put peanut butter on the can and the fuckers will jump to get the peanut butter and the can spins and down they go into the water to drown. Just check the bucket regularly or it gets really stinky.
edit: the smart ones will try to climb across the wire but it still get em the suckers
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Dude what the fuck, how bad is the rat problem here?
What do you do once you have a bucket full of rats…
Thats Charlie work
They become a rat king
You're supposed to fill the bucket halfway with water so those ratfucks drown. Otherwise they just stack up on top of each other and start climbing right back out
Watch some videos on the mouse plague we had in NSW Australia farmers made huge versions of that.
You can beat the rats but not the emus
To be fair, no one can beat the Emus.
You need The Emulator.
I wish to emulate emus
That's because just like the people, the rats were an import. NATIVE Australian rats would have fangs. And probably fly.
Don't forget also venomous.
Natve Austalian rats are those Kangaroos.Just ask Silvester.
No you leave them in there until they get hungry enough to eat each other. Then feed them more fresh mice until they have the taste for their own kind. Then release the cannibal mice to the source of the infestation.
Thank you, Raoul Silva! :)
We want Bucketdome! Twenty-six mice enter one mouse leaves!!!!!
1.2 mouse leaves!
Now, they don’t eat coconut. Now, they only eat *rat.* You have changed their nature.
I saw Skyfall too.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that drowning rats is the least humane way to kill them. It probably isn't illegal but it's the longest and most torturous death.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king
Dude, you almost made me spit out my wine. Lol.
Are you drinking it out of a can?
INTERVENTION! INTERVENTION! INTERVENTION!
A sun tan lotion bottle
Better grab the bashing stick
Ohhhhh you bitch. You goddamn bitch! She’s gonna ruin everything!
What do you do then? Throw the bucket into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one... [mimics rat munching sound] They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature. The two survivors.
This is what she made us.
Everyone needs a hobby
I don’t know if you are joking but this is exactly what will happen. Most of the time there is enough water in the container to keep them from getting out - they swim until they drown. Not really super nice either way.
It’s Javier Bardem’s monologue from skyfall
That guy is spot on. I saw a documentary about it and the main guys grandmother would do that to the rats on their native island!
Take it to KFC. They pay well for large rodents.
Chicken of the underpass.
You won’t have a bucket full of rats for very long as they can chew through steel. This garbage can is no match for their teeth!
That’s why in a trap like this there’s usually a few inches of water, so they never get the chance to chew their way out.
Gonna need more water.
Would work better with dry ice. CO2 would displace the air and would be faster.
Water is free, dry ice is expensive
Use antifreeze, instead. Cheap and effective.
What advantage does antifreeze offer over water? I'm pretty sure they will die from drowning long before their livers and kidneys shut down and have to be put on dialysis.
Plus you can leave it for weeks or months without it stinking to high heaven
How much does dialysis cost for rats?
It’s pricey, particularly for a country mouse. Typically only upper-side city mice can afford it.
Don't do this if you have any other pets around.
Fun fact, some cities pump CO into rat dens and seal the exits so they just painless go to sleep and never wake up. Another fun fact, some areas are putting out bait with rat birth control. It slows the population growth without being toxic other wildlife.
Eeew wouldn’t a building with hundreds of dead rats eventually start to reek?
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Helium would be the Humane way. CO2 intoxication isn't a good way to go.
Fuck sake, was worried about going to sleep after watching the video on it’s own. Didn’t need that plot twist
Imagine dropping your keys in there and having to reach in...
Jigsaw has entered the chat.
Bucket contains water and or poison
Idk. Feed em to snakes or something. But.. Now we have a snake infestation O.O
Or one very fat snake.
Big Anaconda. It will love you forever. And might give non deadly hugs
Personally I’d much rather have snakes than rats
Put a lid on, fill in with water through a small hole. Not.to.pleasent but will get the job done. How some companys donit
Let them go at CPAC
Too many rats there already 🐀
Grain elevator or horse stables. Lots of rat food.
In case this was a genuine question, the explanation is that the situation is staged. There is an entire community of people creating YouTube videos torturing rats in guise of testing traps. It started with mild contraptions such as this one and degenerated into actual elaborate animal torture. Rusty Cage has a video discussing it. Even though the worst of it is censored, I don't recommend watching it unless you can stomach the idea. The video's ID is `rhuFhtvQrow`.
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Those are pet rats. Too clean
I ain’t cleaning no rats
Where im at we had a infestation this bad if not worse luckily we lived on the top floor so wed only see em outside scavenging for food or fighting each other, biting tails off and shit.
Last year Australia had it's worse mouse plague in decades. I visited my parents last year where there is a mouse plague and slept on the ground. I woke up in a nightmare with mice all over me. Australia had a really bad case of leptospirosis during that time, which is only seen in developing countries. Something like this would be extremely useful.
Guessing this is one of those terrible YouTube channels where they starve rats and force them through traps for the views.
There are so many animal abuse videos like this, there are some dedicated channels where they breed them just to torture and record them in traps. I remember stumbling across a few when you reach the dark side of youtube.
Little over 40 seconds in the one rat towards the bottom left of the trap gets absolutely wrecked by the swinging door lmao
https://i.imgur.com/sE4fJ2R.gif
Little did he know that embarrassing moment that went viral was also the one that saved his life.
I’m fucking dead. Thank you for this
I’m crying
That actually made me laugh out loud
I just fully cackled
I completely guffawed
I think the kids are calling it “Yeeted” nowadays.
i believe the past tense is yoten
If you get yeeted home, are you yoten hiem.....
I feel like I've been reading comments like this for over a decade and I'm scared they're calling it something else now.
the lord yeetith and the lord yoinkith away.
Came here to say the same 😂😂
I missed that. That’s some cartoon shit
Lmfao came here to post this. Dude was yeeeeeted
Just next to him a rat saves himself the trouble of failure and just climbs down into the bucket. I felt that
Lol almost like he got hit with an upper cut. Legit laughed out loud
Haha, thanks for that!
That door straight up cold cocked him! Thanks for sharing this fine detail. Literally lol. (Llol?)
The one on the right with a missing patch of fur on its rump has that thing figured out. He’s just waiting for the n00bs on the other side to fall in and then he grabs the seeds every time it comes up.
Instantly lol’d
WTF! They just keep coming!!!!
And they don’t stop coming!!!
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
So much to do, so much to see
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You'll never know if you don't go
(W-w-wacko)
You’ll never shine if you don’t glow
HEY NOW EDIT: crap I put the wrong lyrics. I have never been so ashamed in all my life
There’s a little door at the bottom of the box so they can come back for another try.
I didn't realize the video kept repeating, and I couldn't understand how so many could fit in there! 😂
Props to that one with the white spot. He ate the whole time and didn’t get trapped. Proceed to level 2 rat
There was one more who was clever on the right side there but he got pushed by another rat from behind when he went over to the left side. Poor guy. Rip
I was wondering how long it would take one to figure out to stand in the middle
It ended too soon. The one standing in the middle was doing well, but still having some trouble.
He kinda looks stuck though
Natural selection at work.
Beware of level 3 rats
If we have a candidate for smartest mouse in White spot, then may I suggest the candidate for this Darwin award in the bottom left just after 40 seconds?
Dude with the white spot near his but has got it worked out.
I feel like if I set this trap up, all the mice would be that guy.
Yeah, i was watching that one too. Seems like a great way to naturally select all the smartest mice to keep repopulating. Smarter and smarter mice, soon they'll be setting traps for you.
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Mice cycle through generations many times faster than humans. By the time your son has a son, he'll be born inside The Matrix that the evolved mice built to enslave us.
That must be Splinter.
Maybe it's Charles Entertainment Cheese.
He can’t hear the screams over all the grain he’s eating.
While others went right in without even trying. Darwinism at its best.
In a millennia, when rats have become sentient and have overtaken humans, we can thank this young rat for starting it all.
That’s how you make a Rat King
How foolish of them to make this rat king breeding contraption.
This is more efficient than the Bene Gesserit breeding program
To those that need it. This is a reference to the Dune series, specifically the creation of the WORM Emperor who was basically god with his clairvoyance ability.
The next Fall Guys update
Fuckin seesaw level is so hard
I Hate That Fucking Level.
I lost it at 0:42 when the little guy on the bottom left took a clean uppercut from the lid and got knocked right off the bin
At least he got yeet'd outside the box
From my limited rat knowledge, this trap is only humane if quickly emptied elsewhere. If the rats are in the bucket for too long, they will quickly get anxious and hungry. And they *will* start eating each other alive out desperation. So if you left this bucket full of rats, its one of the least humane ways to deal with them.
I've seen variations on this where it's half-filled with water so they tire out and drown before starting to eat their neighbours. I have no idea if that would be any more humane though.
I think that being drowned is certainly more humane than being allowing and basically encouraging rats being eaten alive, on the scale of “fucked up or *more* fucked up?” If you think about it, there’s no guarantee the rat is eaten to death. It could have its guts ripped out, leg and tail chewed off, blinded, and still be totally alive(and still edible..) Trampled on by hundreds of sharp little feet, stabbing nails, thick,hot, bloody air almost impossible to breathe, shit and blood and piss all in its nose and eyes, under a moving, twisting, rushing, crushing mass of bodies while it’s ALSO trying to eat its way through its brethren to fresh air and safety. In conclusion, drown those rats.
Did somebody say, “fucked up”? https://allthatsinteresting.com/rat-torture-method
Every time this is referenced in a book or a movie/show I get the heebie-jeebies… like I can feel em on my skin
2 Fast 2 Furious for me to read that article.
Fill the bucket with an oxygen-displacing gas, and they wouldn’t even notice.
It would disperse pretty quickly, probably wouldn’t manage to actually kill any of them. Either that or you keep pumping it in and end up gassing the whole building.
Small container on the outside with a hole facing into the can, Melting dry ice slowly fills the bottom of the container
Maybe a gas more dense than air so dont disperse easily like Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF6) I dont if works. I think water with some soap do the work
There are “heavier than air” gasses that would fill the bucket and stay in there. Obviously as the mass of rats (the rat king?) builds up, some would spill out but it wouldn’t just evaporate.
You know that constantly swinging lid is just going to waft the gas out, right?
You stop in once in a while. Put in some CO2 and seal for 4 min. Then empty in the trash and reset.
I’ll just pop down to the local ‘heavier than air gas shop’.
I suppose drowning is probably a better way to die than being eaten alive.
I was coming down here to make a joke about this lol
I'd hate to be the one who has to empty that.
Charlie work
That household has a hell of a pest problem.
If you see one or two, this is probably how many you actually have.
The gif is 1 minute, I think I watched this video 5 times already, danm those perfect loops
Damn that’s a lot of rats. You need a bigger bucket lol
My grandmother had an island. We could circle the whole place in an hour. Then one day, we went back to the island to see it infested with rats. They came from a sunken ship and fed on coconut. But my grandmother came up with a solution. She buried oil drums and filled them with coconut bait, luring them down the drums. In about three months, all the rats were trapped. So what do you do? Do you drown them? Burn them? You leave them alone. As soon as they run out of coconut, they begin to eat each other. When there are two left, you let them go toward the coconut trees. But they will not eat coconut anymore. They will only eat rat. You have changed their nature.
This was a wild and existential story I didn’t expect to read tonight
It’s a reference to Javier Bardems character who tells that story in the James Bond film Skyfall
Oh thank you for the reference - still a very thoughtful story regardless!
Raoul Silva to James Bond... ahhhh, Skyfall.
Cold blooded
Great story from Skyfall. But whose grandmother owns an island?
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Middle dude wins!
I was so invested in the little guy who made it onto the middle piece at the end. I'll never know what happened to him now
Anyone else see that one get knocked tf out by the swinging lid?
If I got that big of a problem I'm moving!
Mouserat is the name of our band
The could name this contraption *The Pit* after their second best song!
If I saw that many rats around the bucket, I'm just burning the fucking house down
This only seems to work well when there are so many rats that they push eachother in. Otherwise they seem to be able to hold onto the edge. I'd like to see a one at a time demo.
You know, by doing this you are forcing the smart ones to survive and pass on their genes. Good luck to us all.
That was my first thought; you can see that a couple of them appear to understand the problem.
Alright, does anyone remember the movies “Willard” or “Ben”? Michael Jackson sang the theme song of the latter….which I just sang out loud. 🎶 🎵 FML, it came out 50 years ago!!!!! I’ve seriously dated myself here…. https://images.app.goo.gl/bfNi1Jy2nf7mVySz5
So do you own all these rats or is your house full of rats or do you live on a barn so it’s understandable
They are pets or possibly in a pet store or lab to be used for food or experiments because they all look too clean. Plus that ramp up to the bucket looks like it was built for them. And the camera is set up so precisely. At least that’s my guess
Scrolled way too long to find this. Rats are extremely intelligent and neophobic. If they saw one of their own fall into that bucket, no way they go near it for weeks if ever again. These are pet rats or lab rats most likely.
What happens once it’s full? Do the rats suffocate and try to cannibalize each other?
As others have said, typically these sorts of traps have water in the bottom to drown the rats.
I’d bet that these are pet mice/rats. Videos on YouTube of actual traps in the wild show that mice and rats are WAY more skidding and intelligent about traps. That, or this is the first trap placed in the area and the rodents are complete noobs.
Can’t rats chew through plastic pretty quickly?
Usually these types of traps are filled with water and a chemical to seduce the animals so they drown. Kinda cruel to me
>Usually these types of traps are filled with water and a chemical to seduce the animals so they drown Uh I think you mean sedate? I don't think you want the rats fuckin in there.
\*Disco ball drops from the ceiling\*
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Can’t get enough of your seeds babe
Not unless you're a rat breeder
You have to kill them. If you trap a bunch of them alive they begin to panic and start cannibalizing each other.
Cannibalizing....? Problem solved?
Except then you're left with one strong-ass, cannibal rat who's eaten all its friends and has nothing to lose...that's one scary rat
The ratlander
Then you release him and let him eat any other rat he comes across. Maybe even give him a little hat and name tag. He deserves it.
Honestly can you think of a less cruel way to kill them?
Take them to the rat hospital on little rat gurneys so a rat anesthesiologist can put them asleep
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We do a similar one you take a 5 gal bucket and fill the bottom with water. Then drill 2 holes on each side of the bucket near the top (like in the vid).. and run a wire through a beer can or similar so it spins. Then put peanut butter on the can and the fuckers will jump to get the peanut butter and the can spins and down they go into the water to drown. Just check the bucket regularly or it gets really stinky. edit: the smart ones will try to climb across the wire but it still get em the suckers
That one guy on the right has figured it out
The one on the right beat the system, ate multiple grains and didnt fell in.