Post by: onions! on March 27, 2007, 09:34:56 AM
Mouse taunts man, makes off with his dentures
Captured rodent escapes from Maine resident, then takes prosthetic teeth
Updated: 3:30 p.m. ET March 24, 2007
WATERVILLE, Maine - Never underestimate a mouses determination.
Theres a mouse in Bill Exners house that he says he has captured three times. Each time, the mouse escaped, and the last time the rodent made off with his lower dentures.
Exner, 68, said he and his wife Shirley scoured his bedroom after the dentures disappeared from his night stand.
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We moved the bed, moved the dressers and the night stand and tore the closet apart, he said. I said, I knew that little stinker stole my teeth I just knew it.
They found a small opening in a wall where they suspected the mouse was coming and going, and their daughters fiance, Eric Holt, stepped in to help.
He brought a crowbar and hammer and he sawed off a section of wood and pulled up the molding and everything, Exner said. It was quite a job.
They retrieved the dentures, and Holt suggested his future father-in-law boil them in peroxide and whatever else he could find for to disinfect it.
The mouse apparently isnt done. It frequently comes out and stares at Exner, his wife said.
Hes taunting him I swear hes taunting him, Shirley Exner said.
Post by: charby on March 27, 2007, 09:45:33 AM
Post by: cosine on March 27, 2007, 10:09:52 AM
Post by: MechAg94 on March 27, 2007, 10:25:22 AM
Post by: Sindawe on March 27, 2007, 10:32:52 AM
Post by: Stickjockey on March 27, 2007, 10:35:06 AM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on March 27, 2007, 11:24:19 AM
Post by: JimMarch on March 27, 2007, 12:49:56 PM
One day I had one of these overgrown mousies on my lap, petting it, and on a whim I gently tweaked it's whiskers. It looked up at me, ran up my chest and pulled on my mustache.
Swear to God, it's not impossible it IS taunting him.
Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 27, 2007, 01:00:20 PM
There's no way he's going to fix this denture-stealing mouse problem by creating cavities in the walls. Forget the fiance. He's merely a bridge to getting someone with wisdom on retainer who will adhere to a plan with some solid roots and brace themself for a real mouse extraction.
Post by: crt360 on March 27, 2007, 01:47:25 PM
Post by: Brad Johnson on March 27, 2007, 01:52:25 PM
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"Now go away! Or I shall taunt you, a squeakond time!"
Gives the quote "Your father was a hamster.." a whole new meaning.
Brad
Post by: Desertdog on March 27, 2007, 02:42:03 PM
Post by: Matthew Carberry on March 27, 2007, 04:56:14 PM
A few years ago we had a couple of cute little mice running around the house. I made a trip to Wal Mart to obtain a few mouse traps. After a few weeks of feeding the little critters cheese and peanut butter, I finally got the traps to trip while they were eating. No more mice problems.
The more they eat, the fatter and slower they get.
I rub the peanut butter into cotton balls and wind them on the trigger, made the buggers tug harder to get it.
I also polish the points of contact to remove burrs and reduce lock time, but I have some gunsmith tools and WAYYYYY too much time on my hands.
Post by: charby on March 27, 2007, 05:57:59 PM
-Charby
Post by: mustanger98 on March 27, 2007, 06:06:45 PM
Post by: Antibubba on March 27, 2007, 08:28:20 PM
Post by: glockfan.45 on March 27, 2007, 08:35:01 PM
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Maybe the mouse mistook them for his own rodentures.
Boooo!
Post by: Boomhauer on March 28, 2007, 04:19:51 AM
Mustanger98, that article was a hoax. The guy lied. He didn't want to admit what an idiot he was for burning down his house when he was not supposed to be burning anyway.
Post by: MechAg94 on March 28, 2007, 05:29:58 AM
Post by: mfree on March 28, 2007, 07:10:19 AM
Eventually I made a little cardboard platform that attached to the trigger plate, as well as adjusting the "sear", etc.
Got three, rapid-fire. Since then the food, and other "treats" left out, haven't been touched.