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Post by floplexter on Aug 15, 2014 8:09:40 GMT
You know it makes sense....
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Post by Moo on Aug 26, 2014 16:01:22 GMT
Will it be a pet shop?
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 4, 2014 11:55:12 GMT
So, we noticed about a month ago that the electricity pole at the end of our driveway had a sodding huge wasps nest on it. We called the electricity company and a van came out at almost midnight. Two blokes got out and shone a torch at the nest for about five minutes, then got back into their truck and left.
Yesterday we called the electricity company again and pointed out the nest was still there and that it's almost directly over where my kid waits for her schoolbus... If the nest falls, or the wasps get aggressive while my girl's out there, that would be bad, m'kay?
So today the truck reappears - a cherry picker truck, which I thought was bold. Except they raised the cherry picker up with no one in it until it was level with the nest. Then they got back in the truck and drove it forward until it bumped into the nest. Then they backed up and hit the thing again, harder this time, breaking it off the pole, where it fell and smashed on the sidewalk below, releasing an absolutely shit storm cloud of angry wasps. The truck drove off slowly with the cherry picker lowering and disappeared around the corner.
The black cloud of angry bugs slowly dissipated over the course of about 90 minutes, but lots of wasps are still crawling around the new exposed transformer thingy the nest had been attached to.
The sidewalk now has four or five smashed pieces of nest - some of them really cool looking - and an absolute carpet of death made from what turned out to be white faced (not the) hornets.
The top part of the nest is laying face up on my lawn, covered in spherical white hornet eggs and looks like a miniature set made for the basement denouement of Aliens.
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Post by Moo on Sept 4, 2014 13:05:22 GMT
I'm hoping for pictures, but don't think I'll get any. I also hope for a strongly worded email/phone call to the company in question.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 4, 2014 13:17:44 GMT
I have some pictures of the smashed bits of nest on my phone. I went out to get a picture of the death carpet this morning, but it turns out quite a lot survived the night and are all over the nest site, so I'm staying the fook away from there.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 4, 2014 15:42:29 GMT
Here's the egg cap : Actual nest was about the size of a beach ball...
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Post by elth on Sept 6, 2014 4:30:26 GMT
That is some creepy ass shit.
How hard is it to call an exterminator? Lzy bostord utility company.
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Post by floplexter on Sept 6, 2014 21:56:02 GMT
I just watched War of The Worlds. Flashback.
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Post by coffers on Sept 7, 2014 18:17:46 GMT
Nasty things wasps when they swarm, that is not the way to deal with a nest.
The Council will do it here, poison a nest that is for around £37.
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Post by floplexter on Sept 8, 2014 15:16:11 GMT
Should imagine that would be plus expenses to sort Slut's hornets out.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 8, 2014 18:49:00 GMT
You can also get an exterminator out here for about $50. It was on the electric company's pole, on public land, so it was up to them to deal with it and I guess when they googled "wasps nest + fucks given =<0" the "I'm feeling lucky!" result was "drive a truck into it."
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Post by coffers on Sept 8, 2014 19:05:19 GMT
As it's Merica, couldn't you have found someone who had been stung by wasps to pretend it happened there, then they could have sued the arse off the power company.?
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Post by Moo on Sept 9, 2014 8:53:38 GMT
I'm on my way.
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Post by floplexter on Sept 9, 2014 9:57:12 GMT
Gargle with vinegar to reduce the swelling. A hit!
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Post by floplexter on Sept 17, 2014 19:15:10 GMT
See you on the other side, Englander pigdogs!!!
(Referendum for Geordies next on the agenda, BoYo...)
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Post by elth on Sept 18, 2014 10:28:42 GMT
Got a big bucks weekend on, so I will definitely be feeling sorry for myself on Sunday.
Good luck with lifting the yoke of English oppression, Pops.
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Post by Moo on Sept 18, 2014 10:29:04 GMT
I know which way I'll be voting before Cameron, Clegg and Milliband come to Newcastle to square up against Jimmy Nail, Sting and Cheryl Cole in a debate over if we should let the people of Blyth manage their own taxes in the bookies. I know you haven't mentioned anything about this whole thing, Pops, we've never really done politics in the many incarnations of Pantfish, but I think I know which side of the fence you're on. I look forward to seeing a change in your IP address.
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Post by floplexter on Sept 19, 2014 5:02:44 GMT
Bah, fecking woosses.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 19, 2014 5:07:48 GMT
Argyll and Bute voted 58% och aye the no - strongly in favour of keeping Pops' English accent. So well done there.
Personally, I'd have like to have seen the whole thing decided by a fight between Salmon and Cameron.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Sept 19, 2014 12:23:48 GMT
Good old CNN. Getting things wrong in as many ways as possible.
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Post by floplexter on Sept 19, 2014 21:55:10 GMT
Too many rich farmers in this neck of the woods, sponging off the Tory subsidies. I had two votes (one of the lassies from work who is on holiday made me her proxy), but they didn't quite swing it.
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Post by Mr Bismarck's Electric Donkey on Oct 1, 2015 13:05:40 GMT
Sunday I was fairly sure I could hear someone in the distance murdering a cat, so I went out to find out what was up.
Yep.
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Post by floplexter on Oct 1, 2015 13:07:16 GMT
Sound I guess will help, so maybe a home watcher. I can imagine....oh, how I can imagine.
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Post by coffers on Sept 29, 2017 7:13:51 GMT
Tomorrow night the joys of baby sitting, though two 10 year olds and a 5 year old can hardly be called babies. Fixing up the knackered dovecot. Nothing else planned really.
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Post by Moo on Sept 29, 2017 9:29:01 GMT
I was thinking of going to see Blackburn United v Haddington Athletic tomorrow, but don't know if I can be arsed, due to my increasingly inappropriate hangover.
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