First time I ever saw anything as ridiculous as this... Murica!
https://youtu.be/oM09ZgY2qPM

Whoever came up with that was a genius or an idiot. Or maybe both.

Unique but the narrator is right it's probably not legal today.

Well. It's probably more humane than some of those other traps. Sadly I had to finish off two rats that a spring trap failed to with my pellet gun a couple of years back.

And a burglar alarm, too? I hope your teenager doesn't sneak out at night and try to sneak back inside.

So many fails with that design by modern standards that I just found the entire concept too funny to keep to myself.

That rat has never met me.

Uh oh... the design of that trap looks like it could be made with a hand saw or Dremel tool an old coat hanger and wire cutters.

Don’t do it Klown! -Think of the children!!!

Bisbee wrote: Tue Feb 05, 2019 3:37 am Uh oh... the design of that trap looks like it could be made with a hand saw or Dremel tool an old coat hanger and wire cutters.

Don’t do it Klown! -Think of the children!!!

More correctly, I HAVE done and thought about it. Behold, my MSU guillotine.

Is that a guillotine... for rats! Or children?!?

Bisbee wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:56 am Is that a guillotine... for rats! Or children?!?

I guess it depends on the research model, doesn't it?

I remember reading a story as a kid in, I think it was a hunting magazine, about a guy who was trying to set a bear booby-trap using a revolver and panicked when the bear charged and managed to shoot himself in the stomach a couple of times with his own booby-trap. The bear had dinner.

Yeah, I think this may be one of the stupidest patents, ever, and I expect it's illegal in all 50 states.

Bisbee wrote: Wed Feb 06, 2019 3:56 am Is that a guillotine... for rats! Or children?!?

There may be other uses as well.