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Maryland home suffers over $1m in damage after cunning coal-based pest control plan backfires
A homeowner in Maryland tried to fight a snake infestation with coal, only to burn their own house down, causing more than $1m in damage. Nobody was injured.
Montgomery county fire and rescue officials notified the public about the blaze right after it happened on 23 November, describing a conflagration that left a large two-three-story single family house with heavy fire throughout structure and roof collapse.
About 75 firefighters responded. Conditions were dark and cold around -4C (25F) as they battled the flames.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/04/homeowner-snake-infestation-burns-down-own-house-maryland
Hekate
(90,834 posts)Oh yes, they are
malaise
(269,187 posts)Penny wise, pound foolish!
taxi
(1,896 posts)don't move very fast when it's cold and to call back when it warms up.
iemanja
(53,072 posts)if I had a snake infestation. That's my worst nightmare.
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)yagotme
(2,919 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)I used to find garter snake skins on the cellar floor from time to time. I figured they were doing me a service, eating bugs and mice.
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)We found snake skins in the attic and occasionally a live snake in the house. We would catch them and release them in the barn where they kept rodents in check.
My dad believed that the black snakes kept poisonous snakes away. I don't know if that's true, but we never saw any poisonous snakes around our place.
jmowreader
(50,566 posts)...that someone who could afford a million-dollar house could also afford an exterminator.
The WORST part of this is tomorrow morning's call to the insurance company: "You did WHAT? No, that's not a covered loss."