Roombas Supposedly Effective At Exterminating Ants

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 4 of April , 2008 at 4:03 am

I have no idea whether or not this is true, but it’s just plausible enough to be believable. And it’s funny. From a post on How To Get Rid Of Stuff:

A local exterminator came over to my house a few weeks ago after finding an investigation. He gave me a small robotic vaccum cleaner called the roomba for a week. It had a scheduler and a base charge unit that it automatically went to when the battery got low. The roomba dispatched to the room like 20 times a day. Mostly while I was at work. As worker ants came out behind the wall, the roomba rolled over them and swept them up. So every once in a while it would go off its charger, run for half an hour, and nuke 100+ ants coming out of the wall per session. After about 3 days, running unattended thoughout the day and night, it killed off all the foragers, leaving the queen to starve to death. It was a merciless killing machine. It also cleaned my floors.

Just imagine yourself in the six three pairs of shoes of these poor little ants, with a gigantic robot chasing you down, trying to exterminate you and your entire family. Yeah, sometimes I have dreams like that… It is, after all, only a matter of time.

VIA [ RSN ]

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