Squirrel!
My Uncles are good guys, odd and crass, but all around decent men. The very first time I met them, I walked into their house as they're sitting on the computer declaring "fake, fake, fake, real, fake, real...." This happened routinely at their place, half the time they'd be looking at Indian artifacts and half the time it would be boobs.

What makes them eccentric though, is their war with the squirrels. They have a neat little garden patch in the back yard and every time they turned their back, the squirrels would devour their tomatoes. So, in an attempt to permanently solve the problem, they decided to eliminate the squirrels. They went about this by sprinkling bird food over a grassy patch of yard. Then they dragged the hose over and let it run so that their grass was now a lovely mud puddle. Finally, they ran an extension cord from the kitchen plug out into the yard and plugged it into the ground - smack in the middle of the mud puddle. I've never seen them actually harm a squirrel, but I can't count how many times they've knocked over a beer or twelve running from the living room to plug in the extension cord because someone yelled "squirrel!"
(CaffeineFiend, Sat 1 Nov 2008, 6:07, Reply)