A device that drives squirrels nuts

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A device that drives squirrels nuts

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A device that drives squirrels nuts via Book of Joe

Bill pondered the ways humans have chosen to deal with squirrels — poisoning, shooting, trapping — and decided no one had tried to annoy them into submission. That is Bill Earl’s great contribution to pest control: He’s the first man to think of ticking squirrels off.
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“I thought of the old disco lights,” he said. Bill contacted his friend Mike DeGinto, who works at an electrical and lighting supply shop in Pennsylvania. And thus was born the Evictor, a high-intensity strobe light that flashes 92 times a minute. Bill and Mike say if you install enough in your attic to illuminate every last dark corner the squirrels will, um, high-tail it.

“The reason they leave is it’s so very annoying,” Bill said. “It’s very, very annoying. The squirrels can’t get past that. They decide it’s a bad place to raise their young.”

It’s like living in a cheesy ’70s nightclub — a perpetual cheesy ’70s nightclub, Studio 54 with a cocaine-addled DJ who refuses to stop the checkerboard dance floor from pulsating.

8 thoughts on “A device that drives squirrels nuts

  1. yachris says:

    Of the Twirl-a-Squirrel:

  2. adam says:

    Cool idea, but if they’ve found a place to escape from cheesy ’70s nostalgia I want to move in with the squirrels.

  3. william a larsen says:

    squirls are cool.people who hate animals are not.this kind of john mc cain ideology is what will kill our country,or may have already done it.put your creativty to better use.make somthing productive.bill

  4. Brad says:

    slap some wire mesh on that hole leading into your attic.

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