Heads Will Roll

Unlike the Yeah Yeah Yeahs song, heads were not rolling on the floor...more like in the sink...and I really don't think the mice danced until they were dead...

Let me explain.

It all started when I headed into the lab for research.  Not only is the hallway leading into my lab creepy because you can't see who's coming, but it is also a spider den.  When you enter their den, these spiders aren't messing around.  They are huge and always looming above your head, threatening to drop should you take too long to pass through.  Not to mention they always build their webs right in front of the entrance to the actual lab.

Luckily for me, the boys in the physics lab connected to mine can be bribed, with treats, to take care of the spiders for me.  The usual method for taking care of the spiders is to capture them in a cup and then put them down the sink.  (it would definitely be nicer if we released them, but I can't really make demands since I'm not taking care of them myself)

On this day they had collected a cup full of spiders and went to the sink to dump them out.  Unfortunately there was something blocking the drain, two things actually...DEAD MICE!  (INCLUDING ONE HEADLESS MOUSE AND THE OTHER WITH A RUPTURED STOMACH!!!!!)

At first it seemed like some kind of threat or something.  It was like the mice had been put there as a warning.  Then I thought about it...CLEARLY IT WAS THE STUPID BABY THAT WAS HAUNTING ME!  IT WAS EVIL AND HAD RIPPED THE HEAD OFF THE MOUSE LIKE SOME KIDS DO WITH BARBIE DOLLS


For days this is what I thought had happened.  I was definitely on edge.

The truth is a lot less exciting, but still just as gruesome.  Over the weekend they sprayed the building with mouse poison.  The poison is slow-acting and just makes the mice really thirsty at first.  The logic behind it is the mice will run outside to get water and die out there.

Unfortunately they didn't take into consideration sinks.  The mice just ran right into the sink and got trapped.  So you may still be wondering what happened to the one's head.  Well mice are apparently cannibalistic when starving...I'll let you fill in the blanks.