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** Kris depicts catching a rabbit with a propped-up top hat and a carrot as a rite of passage for magicians in [http://explosm.net/comics/1274 #1274]. |
** Kris depicts catching a rabbit with a propped-up top hat and a carrot as a rite of passage for magicians in [http://explosm.net/comics/1274 #1274]. |
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** Inverted in [http://explosm.net/comics/2696 #2696] by Rob. A box-and-stick trap is set over a slice of pie on a plate. "Hey! [[Kids Prefer Boxes|Free box]]!" and then he slips on the pie and impales himself on the stick. |
** Inverted in [http://explosm.net/comics/2696 #2696] by Rob. A box-and-stick trap is set over a slice of pie on a plate. "Hey! [[Kids Prefer Boxes|Free box]]!" and then he slips on the pie and impales himself on the stick. |
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** In [http://explosm.net/comics/4450/ #4450] by Rob, a worm serves as bait to catch an "early bird" to cook and eat. |
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== Web Original == |
== Web Original == |
Revision as of 12:36, 29 October 2016
A deadfall trap is a type of trap used by a Hunter Trapper.
It consists of a heavy rock or log with one side propped up with a stick, with food or other bait underneath, used to trap and crush small animals.
A cord is tied to the stick so that the rock or log falls when the animal takes the bait or when the trapper pulls the cord.
A box-and-stick trap is a hollow variant of the deadfall trap used for live trapping, where a cage replaces the crushing weight.
As with the Bear Trap or Mouse Trap, sometimes this works, but sometimes it catches the wrong thing.
Examples of Box-and-Stick Trap include:
Webcomics
- A couple in Cyanide & Happiness:
- Kris depicts catching a rabbit with a propped-up top hat and a carrot as a rite of passage for magicians in #1274.
- Inverted in #2696 by Rob. A box-and-stick trap is set over a slice of pie on a plate. "Hey! Free box!" and then he slips on the pie and impales himself on the stick.
- In #4450 by Rob, a worm serves as bait to catch an "early bird" to cook and eat.
Web Original
- #13 of Cracked.com's Photoplasty 18 Things You Never Noticed in Famous Pictures (Part 2) takes Kevin Carter's Pulitzer-winning photo of a vulture stalking a crouching Sudanese child and adds a ray of hope by having the child bait a vulture into a box-and-stick trap with an ACME brand cage. A kid's gotta eat somehow.
- Easy Money by Glenn Jones (#9 here) - a trap for tooth fairies.
Western Animation
- In Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies:
- Elmer Fudd has used a box-and-stick trap on occasion to try to catch Bugs Bunny. In A Wild Hare, Elmer ends up catching a skunk instead. In Hare Remover, Bugs sees Elmer's trap for the first time, remembering that Bugs's grandfather had described them before, and plays along by getting trapped.
- Wile E. Coyote has tried (and failed) to use deadfall traps to catch the Road Runner.
Other
- Naolito's "Ghost Trap" T-shirt depicts a cardboard Pac-Man as bait under a Ghostbusters ghost trap.
Real Life
- Wikipedia describes figure-four and Paiute deadfall traps.
- A dog breeder sells pyramid-shaped box-and-stick rabbit traps.
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