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My wife and 4 and 2 yr old girls were playing in our basement. It's unfinished but we have a playschool slide, toys, soccer net etc down there as our play area. Mrs yells 'Theres a chipmunk in the window well!'
I go down there and sure enough. We have one window well that is uncovered (it broke this year and I haven't fixed it yet) and the little guy fell down there. So I go grab a 2x4 and put it in the window well and we all huddle down in front of the window to watch him climb out. It's then that we notice he isn't moving real fast. Turns out there is a bees nest under the corner of the metal side of the well and they are attacking the poor guy.
I go outside with a bucket and string and a piece of peanut butter bread in the bucket hoping he'll crawl in and I can hoist him out. But he's not interested. On top of it every time he moves the bees go after him.
At this point I figure to hell with this. He's done. I'm not going in there and he can't climb out. But as those of you with kids know, this isn't going to fly with the girls. So I tell everyone to go upstairs. I grab a big can of wasp killer from the garage and go back to the window. Because the chipmunk had stopped running around the bees had gone back into their hive. So I wrap my arm in a towel, open the window and blast the #### out of the corner where the hive is. They all try to fly out and I'm picking them off mid air. Hand to slam the window shut a couple times to let them settle, then point and shoot the few still alive.
Now with the bee threat neutralized, I've gotta get Alvin (yes he's been named) out of the well. So I grab the same towel, reach in, and grab him. I wrap him up and take him through the window. As I close the window he wriggles out of the towel and lands on the floor and scurries under the little plastic play kitchen in the corner.
So I drive to home depot and get a Havahart trap. Bait with peanut butter bread and dried cranberries (wife thinks he would like those).
Waiting till after dinner to see if he takes the bait.
FML
I go down there and sure enough. We have one window well that is uncovered (it broke this year and I haven't fixed it yet) and the little guy fell down there. So I go grab a 2x4 and put it in the window well and we all huddle down in front of the window to watch him climb out. It's then that we notice he isn't moving real fast. Turns out there is a bees nest under the corner of the metal side of the well and they are attacking the poor guy.
I go outside with a bucket and string and a piece of peanut butter bread in the bucket hoping he'll crawl in and I can hoist him out. But he's not interested. On top of it every time he moves the bees go after him.
At this point I figure to hell with this. He's done. I'm not going in there and he can't climb out. But as those of you with kids know, this isn't going to fly with the girls. So I tell everyone to go upstairs. I grab a big can of wasp killer from the garage and go back to the window. Because the chipmunk had stopped running around the bees had gone back into their hive. So I wrap my arm in a towel, open the window and blast the #### out of the corner where the hive is. They all try to fly out and I'm picking them off mid air. Hand to slam the window shut a couple times to let them settle, then point and shoot the few still alive.
Now with the bee threat neutralized, I've gotta get Alvin (yes he's been named) out of the well. So I grab the same towel, reach in, and grab him. I wrap him up and take him through the window. As I close the window he wriggles out of the towel and lands on the floor and scurries under the little plastic play kitchen in the corner.
So I drive to home depot and get a Havahart trap. Bait with peanut butter bread and dried cranberries (wife thinks he would like those).
Waiting till after dinner to see if he takes the bait.
FML
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