My grandfather actually used the shop-vac. On a bat.
This was the end of a long train of techniques only my grandfather would consider.
First he left windows and doors open and hoped.
Then, he built a chute out of cardboard from where the bat was on the ceiling to the door, yards away, and played loud music at it.
The bat did not mind loud music, but it was averse to cardboard chutes.
After several other attempts, he tried the shop-vac. With the crevice tool. He thought that the crevice tool was narrow enough that the bat would be -stuck- to the end by the suction (apparently suffering nothing more than a whole-body-hicky). Bats, however, are slight creatures. It went FOOMPFF! into the shop-vac.
He took it outside and up-ended the vac, and out staggered a confused but apparently unharmed back.
For our next episode, my father and the squirrel vendetta!
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My grandfather actually used the shop-vac. On a bat.
This was the end of a long train of techniques only my grandfather would consider.
First he left windows and doors open and hoped.
Then, he built a chute out of cardboard from where the bat was on the ceiling to the door, yards away, and played loud music at it.
The bat did not mind loud music, but it was averse to cardboard chutes.
After several other attempts, he tried the shop-vac. With the crevice tool. He thought that the crevice tool was narrow enough that the bat would be -stuck- to the end by the suction (apparently suffering nothing more than a whole-body-hicky). Bats, however, are slight creatures. It went FOOMPFF! into the shop-vac.
He took it outside and up-ended the vac, and out staggered a confused but apparently unharmed back.
For our next episode, my father and the squirrel vendetta!