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Do you ever capture the fly in your home with a cup to the wall, and then slip a piece of paper underneath the cup and carry the captured fly in your cup outside to release?
Do you think that that was a wordy sentence, and that you can improve upon it?
If you said “Yes” to the first question, even though the fly barely touched your cup, and you washed it afterward, would you feel comfortable drinking out of it in the future?
Thank you
Use a plastic cup
I have a special folder on my desk that I use solely for killing flies.
Today I got one stuck in my keyboard.
I do that to spiders, but flies don’t deserve to live. I use a fly swat.
“I have a special folder on my desk that I use solely for killing flies.
Today I got one stuck in my keyboard.”
the fly or the folder?
770: “Use a plastic cup”
That’s what I do. And I use two of them, not a cup and a paper.
I wouldn’t dream of using a regular cup – that’s creepy – kind of like Joseph’s toilet apples, but not as bad.If my only option was a drinking glass, I’d just kill the fly.
The fly. I had to use tweezers to get it out
Meno -that’s creepy!
LB – not in the air – on the floor or wall.
actually, I’m not sure if I ever caught a fly, but I probably have. I was thinking more of spiders and mice. I put one cup over it, and then slowly lift it while putting the other cup over the first cup.
I remember a funny incident from when I was in high school. I caught a mouse that way, and I wanted to take it out to the fields right away, but the secretary made me wait till after davening, so I left it on my desk (in the cups). Some of the girls in my class freaked out when they came into the room and saw it. It was really funny!
I don’t know why they were so freaked out – it was safely contained in the cups. And it’s not like it was a scary animal like a dog.
I once caught a lizard that way. Trapped him under a plastic container. I dragged it across the floor that way, but then realized that he might get out (in the wrong direction) when lifting it over the threshold of the back door. So I slid a piece of hard plastic- (like a heavy plastic tablecloth) underneath, and secured it over the container with tape. Then turned it upside down, still covered with the plastic. Once outside, I untaped the plastic and dumped him out over the porch wall. I was real proud of how brave I was. I think I just washed out that container really well with hot water and lots of anti-bacterial soap.
The other day a fly landed on top of my co-worker’s coffee cup, so he took off the lid and threw it out. I told him that the same thing has probably happened a hundred times while he wasn’t looking.
Same as eating in any restaurant. You just have avoid thinking about it.
hellooooah such Hashgacha that this actual morning i spotted a mosquito scurrying about my room , i took a “Aspen” brand tissue( why i don’t use Kleenex in my house is for another time) and i merrily walked over to the mosquito and his lifer was over just like that. BDE.
Just a few minutes ago I caught a thief like that.
He was crawling across my dining room floor – I quickly grabbed two negel vasser cups and trapped him in them.
I’m not sure if I should leave him or let him out in the forest behind my house.
Either way, the cup with the yerushalayim design is a little bigger than the regular one so it’s mamash doing three quarters of the job.Pikuach nefesh?
No, LB, unless there’s a particular person with a severe allergy, mosquito bites are not a sakana. They’re not even considered tzaar to allow a d’rabonon to be violated, and certainly not a d’Oraisa, so you couldn’t trap or kill it on Shabbos or Yom Tov (which would probably be an issur d’rabonon because people don’t use the dead mosquitoes).
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