Kill the Crickets

[The Successful Dropout]

Okay...let me start off by saying that I used to like crickets. I don't like killing hardly any insects besides spiders, moths, mosqitos, and flies. I would hate to step on something or squish something crunchy too...which would be a cricket. So I had one in my room earlier today and it was making a noise in the corner, so I tried to catch it to let it outside, like I've done b4 in the past. I'm sure the poor guy was just lost, so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. So after he decided to play hide and seek for a while, while also making that annoying ass noise, I started to get irritated. Irritated turned to pissed off, and pissed off turned to I'm gonna kill this son of a bitch, and I'm going to kill this son of a bitch led to me grabbing my bb gun and shooting the shit out of it. Poor little cricket pieces were everywhere. I swear, I hate these things now. I hear 'em in the laundy room all of the time (the laundry room is connected to my room in the basement). So now...I have this one bastard cricket who I can't find, I believe hes behind the panelling behind my tv set. It's driving me insane and I now have the biggest headache, a loaded bb gun, and an anger that could give me the strength to bend a weight-lifting bar into a pretzel. Recommendations? I know I can insect-bomb the place, but pratically everything in my room has something that is valuable and would need to be covered up...and I imagine that would leave many hiding/survival areas for crickets and other insects. Are there cricket traps or whatever like they have for ants and roaches? I'm going crazy!

[Jaket]

idk... but once u find hit, fuck him up bad... but dont kill him, then leave him outside with like, 1 eye and 1 leg so he can tell his beds to stay the fuck out

[Moxio]

Maybe this could help. Scroll down a bit.

http://www.critterridders.com/crickets.htm

[AdamInPlaidum]

Isn't there some sort of device that plugs into the wall, emitting a sound that drives them away?

[The Successful Dropout]

ive done that b4 with other bugs, but i think their mouths must of been in the legs that i ripped off....cuz their friends and family sure as hell didnt hear anything that i told em him to tell them....

now the cricket has managed to be parallel to my ear behind the panelling....he KNOWS what im thinking!!!

[Admiral Ackbar]

At least it's not squrrels. I had one dig through our wall and crawl intio my bed one night.

[The Successful Dropout]

Maybe this could help. Scroll down a bit.

http://www.critterridders.com/crickets.htm

ah ha...so the male is the one making the sound, rubbing his damn wings together...we'll see what sound he makes when i find him and rip out his little wings and replace them with toothpicks

[Admiral Ackbar]

Well, if you chemically castrate him, he'll have no urge to rub his legs together. That's a humane was to go...

[SneakyPenguin]

At least it's not squrrels. I had one dig through our wall and crawl intio my bed one night.

I had a squirrel live in my grill over winter once.

[The Successful Dropout]

At least it's not squrrels. I had one dig through our wall and crawl intio my bed one night.

we had one in the basement about 3 yrs ago and one in the addict last year....scared the shit outta me...

[Admiral Ackbar]

I had a buddy who had a racoon for a pet called coon.

I don't kinow why that just came to me...

[The Successful Dropout]

ok...after tearing down a poster behind my tv, near the cricket sound...i saw a little spider hiding behind the poster, apparantly he knew something was up and didn't want any kind of trouble...so i told the cricket to come out quietly or the spider gets it...he chirped one more time and i grabbed a can of black spray paint and kindly painted the spider onto my wall....the cricket has surprisingly shut up ever since....

[smalien1]

There was a family of mice living in my grill because we hadn't used it for a while and to get rid of them wee turned it on and let them cook

[The Successful Dropout]

nevermind...i just scared him a little....the sounds coming from farther away...so he ran off, but hes still in my room...pussy cricket

[Moxio]

nevermind...i just scared him a little....the sounds coming from farther away...so he ran off, but hes still in my room...pussy cricket

GodDAMN that must be annoying. I can imagine your pain. Why not go the extra mile and cover up your goods and get the house sprayed?

[sblymnlcrymnl]

There was a family of mice living in my grill because we hadn't used it for a while and to get rid of them wee turned it on and let them cook

:twisted:

[Ikohn4ever]

I had a cicada(sp) outside my bedroom window and it kept me up all night with its chirpin. I got so pissed and when I finally went to sleep and jackhammer woke me up at 6 from the construction across the street.

[x0thedeadzone0x]

I get crickets in my house occasionally and it pisses me off. They're normally downstairs so when my computer was on the second floor I could hear them even with the door shut. There was one little fucker hiding and I could hear him through a floor and like 3 doors in the house. Thank god my computer is up in my room now or else they'd be driving me insane... good luck with that cricket

[The Successful Dropout]

I get crickets in my house occasionally and it pisses me off. They're normally downstairs so when my computer was on the second floor I could hear them even with the door shut. There was one little shaq-fuer hiding and I could hear him through a floor and like 3 doors in the house. Thank god my computer is up in my room now or else they'd be driving me insane... good luck with that cricket

thx, imma need it...i haven't heard from him in a while and i know hes just sitting there waiting for me to try to go to sleep....having the tv on and the volume up high didn't even come close to drowning his annoying ass chirping out...

[peteloaf]

Don't know if any og you guys are supersticious, but it's bad luck to kill a cricket inside your house.

Anyway, I'll take a few crickets anyday over my roommates zoo. If anybody ever tells you that a Quaker parrot or a lovebird is a quiet animal, punch them in the face. Every Saturday night I'm out till about 5:00am (I'm in a Rocky Horror cast after all) and every Sunday morning at 6:00am the birds start. Grumble, Grumble...

[Spacepest]

The only service my four housecats are good at and can provide reliably is cricket removal.

My cats love crickets. The snack on them constantly. And if they don't eat them, they always rip a leg off them. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing a one legged cricket that can't hop OR chirp. :D No cricket is safe in my house, and I live in an area that is overrun with crickets. And I mean ALOT of crickets.

I haven't heard a cricket in months. But the ones that I have seen have either been legless, or have had a cat chasing it. And a cricket being chased by a hungry kitty it cant stop to rub its legs together to chirp. :D

I'm not superstitous about crickets being murdered in my house. I also have a black cat too, so if there was anything really unlucky then it would be a black cat who kills crickets. XD

[The Successful Dropout]

yeah...my cats love em too...the problem is that they're behind the panelling in my basement....believe me, whitey (one of my cats) was going crazy and staring at the wall every time the noises were made...she just couldn't get to em...

[x0thedeadzone0x]

I get crickets in my house occasionally and it pisses me off. They're normally downstairs so when my computer was on the second floor I could hear them even with the door shut. There was one little shaq-fuer hiding and I could hear him through a floor and like 3 doors in the house. Thank god my computer is up in my room now or else they'd be driving me insane... good luck with that cricket

thx, imma need it...i haven't heard from him in a while and i know hes just sitting there waiting for me to try to go to sleep....having the tv on and the volume up high didn't even come close to drowning his annoying ass chirping out...

Yeah, I could hear the cricket even with my music blasting in my ears on my headphones. It pissed me off to no end. Luckily mine wasn't hidden in the wall, the fucker was just hiding behind the stairs... I found him soon after when I couldn't take it anymore... sorry you can't get to your cricket, is there loose paneling :twisted: or iono, but I'm sure someone from the exterminator company could probably help... if it gets that bad...

[The Successful Dropout]

almost a year later and the cocksucking bitches are back...i now have the worst fucking headache in the world

[The Successful Dropout]

just went on a 20 minute killing spree with my bb gun and a broom-stick...killed about 30-40 crickets that were right outside my basement door....i dont anticipate hearing too many more crickets tonight....i was thinking about lighting my whole backyard on fire, but then i came to my senses

[Dead of Knight]

When I was like 6, a cricket ended up sitting on my eyeglasses, on the inner lens... while I was wearing them. It wasn't a problem getting it to leave though.

[Ikohn4ever]

wow this thread is so old I was surprised I posted in it, and u are a cold blooded cricket killer, they are just tryin to get laid let em be

[The Successful Dropout]

wow this thread is so old I was surprised I posted in it, and u are a cold blooded cricket killer, they are just tryin to get laid let em be

and im just trying to sleep, i have to get up in less than an hour for work....fuck them....im so pissed...after all of that killing, they don't even care...they're just making their damn noises

[The Successful Dropout]

wow this thread is so old I was surprised I posted in it, and u are a cold blooded cricket killer, they are just tryin to get laid let em be

oh yeah...and as much as i hate hurting slugs because they're stupid and pointless to begin with, i saw like 10-15 of 'em on the back of my house...in the midst of all of my cricket killing, i shot about 5 holes through one of them...then i grabbed the salt and poored that all over him to teach him a lesson...i then rolled a softball over him with my foot, i dunno what the softball was doing back there, i guess my dog claimed it as his toy....these goddamn insects bring out the animal in me...i really hate killing insects (except spiders and moths), but i just can't take the noise

[integralsmatic]

try having to stay at your cousins house who owns a bearded dragon. 4 dozen crikets to feed the sucker...it sounded like a nasty bug orchestra...

[The Successful Dropout]

try having to stay at your cousins house who owns a bearded dragon. 4 dozen crikets to feed the sucker...it sounded like a nasty bug orchestra...

try letting me borrow that bearded dragon so it can go to work on these fucks :lol: