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Topic: The Trapper & the Thief
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csmithers
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posted August 18, 2008 06:42 PM
Background:
My boss has a small garden at the back of one of the buildings where I work. The woodchucks and rabbits ravage the garden each year. I am tasked with trapping and disposing of said animals.
We have a small live trap that I use to collect these nuisance animals.
I have trapped 11 racoons and 4 woodchucks thus far that I know of.
We recently had a young kid from IN start working with us. I was told by another guy that the kid was coming in early and releasing animals before I could get there and remove them.
Bluntly I told the kid to stop. In the nicest way possible I asked him to not touch the trap again. Trapping and removing them was my "job" and I didn't take kindly to him making me look like an incompetent boob.
I approached him one morning after arriving and seeing that the cage was filled with dirt, a sure sign the cage was recently inhabited, and asked him where the catch had gone. He looked at me with a blank stare and denied knowledge of anything. He didn't know it but I was helping him out and giving him a chance to fess up and admit he was releasing the animals. I was trying to be lenient and understanding. I figured he had some type of emotional issues and was dealing with them in his own way.
Leniency and understanding soon turned to utter disgust. A week ago I caged a small woodchuck. "Disney" as I like to refer to him was out cutting some branches near the garden. As I prepped the patient for euthansia, iodine swabs and all, I realized I had forgotten something. Knowing Disney's penchant for "catch and release" I looked over my shoulder as I rounded the corner of the building. Just as I disappeared I could see him drop his implements and head for the cage. With his eyes on the prize I guess he didn't see me turn and start heading back toward him briskly.
From the time it took me to walk back to the scene, he had carried the cage up to an abandoned parking lot and had his finger on the top latch. In true feminine fashion he didn't have the balls to hold the latch and lift the door for the lovable little fuzzball.
Our encounter was not pleasant, needless to say. He mumbled something about "he's a real killer" and some other After School Special type BS.
I told him about trapping laws and something about the birds and bees and that two woodchucks will easily turn into seven and so on. I think I said at least six of the Seven Words to him in our exchange. To be certain, there was no Pixar ending on this particular day...
Don't F with a man's trap. Even if it is one of those girly little live traps!
[ August 18, 2008, 06:44 PM: Message edited by: smithers ]
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Tim Behle
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posted August 19, 2008 05:16 AM
I'm thinking that you need to chew his a$$ out a few more times. You will know you are starting to sink into his thick skull, ones he starts crapping himself at the mere sight of a trap.
If you find an empty trap again, have the local Game Warden come give him a little talk.
There's not too many things that I hate worse than a trap thief.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted August 19, 2008 10:49 AM
Better yet, you talk like you were asked to do this by the employer, so sic the boss on him and tell him that if he does that again, he'll be issued a ticket and won't be able to pay it because he won't have a damned job anymore. I, too, loathe trap thieves. ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
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csmithers
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posted August 19, 2008 04:17 PM
Cdog, I did sic the boss on him. The boss was "dumbfounded" as he put it. He and Disney are on eggshells.
Tim, I want him to pee when he sees me. I think it sank in somewhat because I have gotten two since our chat that he didn't release, one today.
I am sure a memorial service is in the works for them.
I had big plans for a huge cage with the smaller cage in it to trap Disney as he released the captured.
If I were using foot holds he would soon learn that there is only one way out of a trap.
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