Re: [CH] Toxic Capsaicin?
Akiva Kotler (akiva@barak-online.net)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 02:05:53 +0300
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From: danceswithcarp <dcombs@bloomington.in.us>
To: Akiva Kotler <akiva@barak-online.net>; Scott W. Schreiber
<scottws@stratos.net>
Cc: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: [CH] Toxic Capsaicin?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Akiva Kotler <akiva@barak-online.net>
> > Sounds like the best thing that Carp can do to get rid of his groundhog
is
> > to let him eat heartily in the pepper patch. I am positive that our co
> > chile-head comrades will soon provide us with the kind of scientific
> studies
> > that we like.
>
>
> This thing is growing. Today, Levi-son and I were digging potatoes and
> found a whole new Groundhawg residence in the potato patch.
> We can't get our hands on a trap and I tried dropping $2 smoke grenades
in
> the hole in the tomato patch: I was standing there on the edge of that
hole
> with a Remington Viper .22 in my hands with three full 10 round clips in
my
> pocket plus the one in the rifle ready to go full rock'n'roll on the
> creechur when he came scampering out but instead, nothing. And then,
about
> 10 minutes later I look up and purple smoke is coming out of an old metal
> shed maybe 40 feet away and uphill from where I dropped the grenades in.
I
> couldn't believe it; it's like I'm trying to garden in a prairie dog
village
> but the prairie dogs weigh 25 pounds and eat everything but chiles and
those
> they wallow down. After we found the new hole today we checked out the
> old hole. The Goundhawg had pushed out the smoke bomb casings and had
> shoveled out the stained soil.
>
> I think the time has come to put that other half bottle DIS into a
5-gallon
> bucket of water and douse the entry points.
>
> It may be cruel, but it will make me feel better.
>
>
>
> carp
Groundhogs do not like Ruby Swiss Chard.
Akiva