The things you buy online .......

[El Presidente]

Change of seasons so down came the tomatoes and out came the soil improver as I planted out my seedlings in the garden for summer. Chillies, cucumbers, capsicum, spring onions, leeks and a variety of lettuce and spinach.  There is something strangely satisfying about spending time in the garden. 

Then the possum came at night  and ate my seedlings. 

 

If there is something strangely satisfying about gardening........it is equally so the day you know you have a new enemy. 

 

Step one.......get credit card and off to the internet. 

 

Preferred option 1. 

Di vetoed it and North Korea would only take bank transfer. 

 

Option 2: 

Di vetoed it as she said i wasn't "safe" around fire. 

I now know the possum is smart. I was more concerned about him taking control of the flame thrower. 

 

Option three. 

 

Import a Possum repeller from the USA

 

I am pretty sure this is what the Cuban Govt is using in Havana.

It has settings for everything from Armadillos to Zebra.  It works on a high pitched sound frequency that  humans can't hear activated by a motion sensor which also activates a white strobe light. 

I set it up and had to try it.  Once nightfall came I snuck out and approached the vege garden. 

The sensor worked a treat and picked me up straight away. It was at that point that things went wrong. Not picked up by human ears my arse!

The high pitched sound frequency brought me to my knees. The bright white strobe light had me thinking I was back at a late 80's Rave. 

The possum stands no chance. 

 

let us know the weird and quirky that you have  purchased online 

 

 

[Gandolf565]

Bahahaha! That was great!

Quirky? Hmmm... I've bought so much useless crap online its hard to choose. Every one of them seemed like a good idea at the time, but in practical use, not so much.

I've since learned to do a LOT more research before I purchase things online. Most generally I try to find one to play with before I plunk down the pesos.

 

Allen

[shaffer22]

Off to go check my Amazon purchase history...

[gweilgi]

Bought a can of dehydrated water for my SO once (she has a PhD in Chemistry).

And there are several novelty cigar cutters in a drawer that I made the mistake of wasting my money on ....

Oh, and I did plonk down 39.99 Euros on a hip joint on Ebay which I brought into hospital for my mother and her surgeon to ask why her replacement surgery cost thousands .... they were not amused. 

 

[chris12381]

We've used an LRAD at our airport for bird scaring and abatement. Pretty effective. Cost / benefit ratio is way out of whack compared to regular non leathal shotgun cracker shells. Sure was fun to use though!

https://www.lradx.com/lrad_products/lrad-450xl/

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[PigFish]

29 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Change of seasons so down came the tomatoes and out came the soil improver as I planted out my seedlings in the garden for summer. Chillies, cucumbers, capsicum, spring onions, leeks and a variety of lettuce and spinach.  There is something strangely satisfying about spending time in the garden. 

Then the possum came at night  and ate my seedlings. 

 

If there is something strangely satisfying about gardening........it is equally so the day you know you have a new enemy. 

 

Step one.......get credit card and off to the internet. 

 

Preferred option 1. 

Di vetoed it and North Korea would only take bank transfer. 

 

Option 2: 

Di vetoed it as she said i wasn't "safe" around fire. 

I now know the possum is smart. I was more concerned about him taking control of the flame thrower. 

 

Option three. 

 

Import a Possum repeller from the USA

 

I am pretty sure this is what the Cuban Govt is using in Havana.

It has settings for everything from Armadillos to Zebra.  It works on a high pitched sound frequency that  humans can't hear activated by a motion sensor which also activates a white strobe light. 

I set it up and had to try it.  Once nightfall came I snuck out and approached the vege garden. 

The sensor worked a treat and picked me up straight away. It was at that point that things went wrong. Not picked up by human ears my arse!

The high pitched sound frequency brought me to my knees. The bright white strobe light had me thinking I was back at a late 80's Rave. 

The possum stands no chance. 

 

let us know the weird and quirky that you have  purchased online 

 

 

... it is one thing to know that I am laughing at you... It is another to know that the possums will be laughing at you too, when you put that thing out!

First off, noting is made in the USA anymore! That was the first thing you notice about internet fraud...! -LOL

In the possum world this means 'garden ahead, get behind the noise and light and then eat...'

-Piggy

[Fuzz]

You sure you heard that thing, Rob? Maybe it was just tinnitus.

[cigcars]

     Gee, Rob too bad I can't let you keep Capt. Crazy (aka Dr. Destructo) my Jack Russell in your yard for a little minute...he's killed three possums in our back yard over a two month period. As for those electric vibrating wave machines or whatever they're called, one of my old co-workers told us about a guy who got one of those smaller ones in the States, for small rodent control...and he'd forgotten all about his pet hamster in the cage. He installed/plugged it in over night, and when he checked on his pet hamster - it was dead. Not being able to get away and all...said its innards were all broiled away!  But as far as reckless purchases online - I only get varieties of instant coffees, looking for potent wake up power...and had to give away about $70 worth to less discriminating palates because they just didn't do the job. I've also apparently wasted money on those cigar pokers that you stick through the length of plugged cigars...and they just didn't cure any smoking inability of any plugged cigars I'd ended up with - no matter how many times I ran the poker through!  That - and a few orders of "habanos" from some mail order vendors in prior years that turned out to be "questionable".

[BellevilleMXZ]

 Now you know how US diplomats felt!!

[Drguano]

My wife's daughter (we do not share any genetic material) lives in London.One day she thought that she'd found the deal of the century online, an antique wooden hutch to house all her crockery and glassware. She hired a van and a couple of lads to take her across town to collect it and return home. After an hour's drive, she found the seller's house and the hutch turned out to be barely large enough to hold a pair of shoes. Did I mention that we are not related? 

[El Presidente]

46 minutes ago, Drguano said:

My wife's daughter (we do not share any genetic material) lives in London.One day she thought that she'd found the deal of the century online, an antique wooden hutch to house all her crockery and glassware. She hired a van and a couple of lads to take her across town to collect it and return home. After an hour's drive, she found the seller's house and the hutch turned out to be barely large enough to hold a pair of shoes. Did I mention that we are not related? 

[cfc1016]

Every once in a while I look through my amazon purchase history. It's really baffling how little time it takes me to forget not to do that.