Rubbish Christmas Presents Volume 6

This one is for Gill.

What do you send to someone who has everything?

rentokil radar mouse trapMouse RADAR – The World’s Smartest Mousetrap

“The cleanest, kindest, smartest mousetrap yet.

Problems with mice? Let RADAR take care of them. RADAR stands for Rodent Activated Detection And Riddance — which describes exactly what it does. We identify rodent runs, then simply lay mouse pest control RADAR boxes along them. When a mouse enters the box pressure sensitive pads detect their presence and close the doors. A measured dose of carbon dioxide is released — killing the rodent quickly and humanely, with no toxins going into the environment.

There’s no danger of contamination from pesticides or from the corpse because it is completely isolated — and the clever little device can even send an electronic alert or email to notify operatives of the capture.” From those lovely people at Rentokil

Bet they haven’t got one of those! Who on earth wants an email enabled mouse trap. Do the little blighters have time to type out their last wills and testaments? Do they get to phone a friend?

I don’t think this would be a rubbish Christmas present, but it would certainly be a very strange one.


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Comments

14 responses to “Rubbish Christmas Presents Volume 6”

  1. that’s for the ppl who have everything including mice, but presumably not a cat?

  2. last year my nana bought my mum sonic mouse repellents for christmas – i kid you not.

  3. Handy for repelling Sonic Mouse, the evil twin brother of Danger Mouse.

  4. Sonic’s a hedgehog, don’t you know nuffin????

  5. LOL! I’m rodent-phobic (though my sister isn’t, so yup, she’d have absolutely no use for this ;)) and I tried one of those sonic mouse-repellants years ago when they were first available. The mice didn’t mind it at all, it was me who couldn’t stand it! Maybe I need to get my DNA checked or something…

  6. Gill, it is a mouse trap which sends email, how could your sister possibly not NEED one?

  7. Surely it want’s a webcam, so you can watch the rodents demise on the web?

  8. How about if it took a still photo and blogged it by email?

  9. I got the giggles about this in bed so badly last night that i couldn’t get to sleep!

  10. :rofl:, they’re contagious. I’m giggling too now!

  11. Nice. Thanks for sharing.

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