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"Wasp on a String"

Wooooo, it took me about 10 odd attempts but I finally did it!

[URL]http://www.phi11ip.com/ran/wasp.jpg[/URL] for a picture.

[URL]http://www.phi11ip.com/ran/wasp.wmv[/URL] for the motion picture.

Now tell me that isn't impressive?

I let it fly round in circles for a few minutes then I tied a small newspaper aeroplane to the end of the string and released it, the camera decided to be stubborn however so I didn't get anything of that.

It was quite amusing though, all I saw was a small piece of newspaper flying out of the garden and into the wilderness.

I don't care if it's cruel. The string will fall off as it was only tied on losely, and the wasp will learn to stay away from the 'bee bush.'

One was on a flower in the garden, so niftly using a bottle and its lid, I closed on it, catching it in said bottle.

Problem was that the bottle still had water in and, hence the Wasp was kind of crippled.

Probably why it froze so stupidly.

mattributé wrote:
> I think I tied it too tight..

Ouch...

phi11ip wrote:
> I tried to super glue the string to one of them, it didn't work very
> well...

I tried catching one, it didn't work very well...

OMG U KILD D WASP M8

I tried to super glue the string to one of them, it didn't work very well...

I tried it, but wasp died (after showing signs of life).

I think I tied it too tight..

You what?!?!

You're accusing me of faking that?

The cheek of it.

[URL]http://www.phi11ip.com/ran/wasp.wmv[/URL]

It's a fake.

A well placed camera angle, a piece of string, and a wasp, and the ILLUSION is created on film that the wasp is actually tied to the string.

If we had, say, a side view that showed us the string actually around the wasp, I'd believe it.

And what's with the wasp's huge moustache. Is it fwainch? I mean, French? Damn french, always leaving a piece of their asses in us.


But what you gotta admit IS cruel, is witnessing a mouse in one of my armed traps, with just it's right back leg caught, still living and trying to escape the confines of the trap spring. After a short moment to take in that I had to do something, I released it out of sight, so my dogs couldn't get it and also to give it time to tell it's mates NEVER to go in my shed.

Little b@stards.

I've done this before, but doing it again with the paper airplane inclusion sounds like something I ought to try.

Haha, cool.