A group of Irish students have succeeded in making one of the most over-elaborate but pain-free mouse traps ever seen.
The video above was sent in to us late on Friday night by Meath man Sean Gaffney, who along with his NUI Maynooth housemates is responsible for one of the most innovative and over elaborate mouse-traps ever seen. Best of all, it works, and not a single mouse was harmed in the process.
So how did these brilliant minds go about inventing such a genius contraption? Shorn of actual money to buy an effective mouse trap and obviously sensitive about the wellbeing of the rodent that had made their house his home, the lads cobbled together various boxes of foodstuffs they had in their house and assembled a makeshift pyramid.
On top of the pyramid stood a fully used toilet-roll cylinder, which contained a small piece of cheese for the mouse to feast on. As soon as he entered the cylinder, however, the mouse was to fall into the bin below, a drop which was softened by the various rubbish already contained within.
To ensure that they wouldn’t be revealed as phonies, the lads filmed the preparations at night and returned the following morning to discover that their elaborate device proved to be a rip-roaring success. Then with the ultimate Hollywood feelgood ending, they subsequently set the mouse free outside without as much as a scratch from the whole ordeal.
If you don’t believe them, check it out for yourself in the video above, although we must warn easily offended readers that the camera work is a tad shaky, there is some partial nudity and a hell of a lot of swearing.
Having conquered the world of makeshift mousetraps, Sean, Robbie and Chris are now set to focus their attention on how to safely detain and subsequently release big Bengali tigers. We await the visual results of that experiment with baited breath.
