An idea I can get behind

[vaskidmark]

especially if you do it just after dark when it's sure to be most inhabited.

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2013/12/fire-ant_colony_molten_aluminu.html

Fire ants are pretty cool creatures -- I mean, aside from the fact they crawl all up your leg and give no warning of their presence until the team leader sends out the signal to rain down simultaneous, Sodom and Gomorrah-style fire and brimstone on your pink, exposed skin.

That kind of sucks, but ants actually do some good. For instance, they clean up the mess left behind when you accidentally run over an opossum, turning to energy the scraps the buzzards leave behind, and they also help aerate your soil.

And those little suckers have quite the work ethic.

Still, there are few things more fun than exacting a little revenge by spraying them with a slow-acting toxin, and giving them a taste of their own medicine.

Or better yet, you can do what these guys have discovered and pour molten aluminum into their colony. Watch the video. You will be stunned with the result.

stay safe.

[AJ Dual]

How much aluminum would it take to make a cast of Washington D.C.?

[BlueStarLizzard]

How much aluminum would it take to make a cast of Washington D.C.?

A whole lot.

But it would be worth it.

[Bigjake]

How much aluminum would it take to make a cast of Washington D.C.?

Have to wait until after the holidays,  the... er... ants are mostly gone now. 

[Gowen]

Looking at the cast and thinking that the Washington bureaucracy is much larger and more complex.  It's going to a whole lot of aluminum.

[bedlamite]

[Azrael256]

That has to be plastic, right?  It kinda looks shiny, but nobody would sell a metal one, right?

[Tallpine]

That has to be plastic, right?  It kinda looks shiny, but nobody would sell a metal one, right?

What could go worng 

[lupinus]

That has to be plastic, right?  It kinda looks shiny, but nobody would sell a metal one, right?

Is that an actual question, or an expressed disbelief?

[Jim147]

Is that an actual question, or an expressed disbelief?

Yes, yes it is. 

jim

[Azrael256]

Is that an actual question, or an expressed disbelief?

Well...

I could imagine some idiot falling for a brushed nickel finish model, so kinda both.

[bedlamite]

How did that get in this thread? That's not where I put it.

[Boomhauer]

Posted that on facebook last night. I want to do in a yellowjacket nest with that method. Oh, and the comments around the web about how horrible it is to kill ants for fun...those are some real *expletive deleted*ing stupid p******...

[Lee]

That is über cool. Just knowing that a whole colony of fire ants were harmed in the process makes it so much cooler. I think I still have scars from my days in Florida.

[Perd Hapley]

Oh, and the comments around the web about how horrible it is to kill ants for fun...those are some real *expletive deleted* stupid p******...

The artwork was the one that the ant colony had built. It is pure disrespect for nature and massacre what the "artist" did, and just shameful.

Elsewhere in the comments, the most stupid-awesome interpretation of Proverbs 30.25

[Jamisjockey]

Posted that on facebook last night. I want to do in a yellowjacket nest with that method. Oh, and the comments around the web about how horrible it is to kill ants for fun...those are some real *expletive deleted* stupid p******...

Probably from people who've never stood in a fire ant nest.  Only two things I hate about the south.
Fire ants.
Skeeters.

[Tallpine]

Probably from people who've never stood in a fire ant nest.  Only two things I hate about the south.
Fire ants.
Skeeters.

The trouble with the South is that it's full of Southerners.
 
  

[lupinus]

The trouble with the South is that it's full of Southerners.
 
  

Trouble with the North is it's full of damn yankees 

[Ben]

America for Americans!

[Tallpine]

America for Americans!

I reckon I'm about as American as anybody from Tennessee 

[vaskidmark]

If your ancestors were not griping about land values going down when the Vikings/Egyptians/Romans/Columbus/Spanish/Pilgrims/English/French/ad nauseum first showed up, you aint American.  At best you are United States-ian.

stay safe.

[Tallpine]

It's all been going downhill since those Asians snuck across the land bridge to Alaska 

[BlueStarLizzard]

If your ancestors were not griping about land values going down when the Vikings/Egyptians/Romans/Columbus/Spanish/Pilgrims/English/French/ad nauseum first showed up, you aint American.  At best you are United States-ian.

stay safe.

Several of my ancestors showed up before it was the United States. Some of their kids helped make it the United States, but that was later.

I prefer the term "all american mutt".

[Tallpine]

Several of my ancestors showed up before it was the United States. Some of their kids helped make it the United States, but that was later.

I prefer the term "all american mutt".

Great...grandfather on my mom's side was born in Ulster around 1750, and somehow made it to America in time to serve in the Colonial Army.

On my dad's side, I can't get any further back than "western South Carolina in the late 1700s".  It was still pretty wild and wooly then and there, and to make it worse there are a bunch of "Pines" and I can't figure out which ones I came from.  I suspect he/they came from Perthshire/Angus/Aberdeenshire 

[Boomhauer]

So can we get back to the discussion of bringing horrible screaming death metal to much hated bugs?