Once, I discovered the perfect flyswat. It just so happened that after a long battle to get a fly to leave peacefully, the closest thing to hand was an empty plastic clothes basket. You know the kind, with lots of holes through all the sides.
In frustration I grabbed the basket and swatted the fly. It made an amazing “swoosh” sound, like swinging a pipe in Streets of Rage. I can only imagine the blind panic as the fly executed its usual escape manoeuvre, only to find that the object it attempted to dodge was less of a rolled-up newspaper, and instead the swat equivalent of a star destroyer.
Finally, a strike back for team human…
Opens window
Fly stays
30 of his cousins come in
So… You have chosen genocide
I do the Gandalf move with moths, and every time it makes me feel like a wizard. But not one of the ungrateful bastards has ever sent an Eagle to rescue me.
Not even on Mondays? Those moths are swine!
you could remove half the walls on your house and that fly still wouldn’t find its way out
I know because I tried it!
Lol thats literally what I say to the flies. But my death/hit ratio is probably 0.3.
When they fly away they first fly up and backwards. So if you come at them from this angle you’ll hit them a lot more often.
Source: something rotted in my bin.
Tip: smack it with an open hand. It reduces air resistance, thus more hand speed, and reduces the pressure of the pocket of air between your hand and the surface that would push the fly out.
This man smashes flies
Is it not an option to leave the window open and give the fly some time?
Yes, if you want more insects in your house.
