There's a xenomorph in your rented accommodation

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If the basement turns out to be "Domain by James Herbert" then sure give the Landlord a call, but at least try and deal with it yourself first you bunch of millennial pussies.

yeah id be embarrassed to call up the landlord for such a trivial matter.

Option 3. It's the only way to be sure.

Rex Kramer wrote:Option 3. It's the only way to be sure.

I'd deal with it myself personally, nothing overly tricky about it but do make sure to get decent alien traps, some of the cheaper/lighter ones sometimes don't get a clean kill. Bait wise peanut butter works quite well.

Suppose you could always let your landlord know you think you may have an alien and that you're planning on putting a couple of traps down.

I think down here it's environmental health department. At least that's where we were fobbed off to when it was a dead petrified rat with a thick layer of droppings everywhere in the shed.

I'm assuming you're married but get the missus to dress up like Janeway in the Voyager episode Macrocosm and go postal on the problem.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Macrocosm_(episode)

I'd post an image but they all seem to have addresses about a million miles long :fp:

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It was a strawberry floating terrible episode by the way :shifty:

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Get a humane trap if it's just a single alien, the spring loaded ones don't always kill the alien, leaving a mangled, still squealing horror show to deal with.

i found a poisoned rat in our sports ground once. it was alive but lying stomach down with its little legs stretched out, still breathing.
i took it outside to decapitate it with a spade. unfortunately they ground was soft and my first attempt squashed it but it was still breathing. i had to be a lot more brutal to kill it off completely.
not my finest moment :fp:

Domesticate it.

I think the right thing to do is to ask the landlord to provide traps. But I personally would find that interaction difficult, so actually I would be likely to just deal with it myself.

I look forward to getting a double dose of "banter" from GRcade's illustrious comedians for both renting and having poor social skills, a hilarious combination.

Ironhide wrote:Get a humane trap if it's just a single mouse, the spring loaded ones don't always kill the mouse, leaving a mangled, still squealing horror show to deal with.

Yeah some traps are too light and have weak springs, hence not getting clean kills. The way we found best was to get a couple of decent traps (Rentokil ones I think) and glue them to an old piece of wood, this way the traps aren't going to move when they go off, since we've done it this way we've had no horror shows to deal with thankfully.

I'd also say it's only in rare circumstances where it'll just be the one alien, my parents thought that when we saw a alien and we had caught a few aliens within the first few days of the traps being set.

Call the Avengers

How low are your expectations of service that you would feel embarrassed to call the landlord to take care of their own property?

It's like going out to a proper sit down restaurant and going in the back to get your own water in your own glass that you brought from home (don't want to bother the waiter with every little thing now do we?!), and then washing your dishes because you wouldn't want them to think you're incapable!

Rightey wrote:How low are your expectations of service that you would feel embarrassed to call the landlord to take care of their own property?

It's like going out to a proper sit down restaurant and going in the back to get your own water in your own glass that you brought from home (don't want to bother the waiter with every little thing now do we?!), and then washing your dishes because you wouldn't want them to think you're incapable!

This, they own the house you are paying to live there, that is what they are for. Maybe for an alien I would try an alien trap or to catch it, one alien happens but if I thought it was more than "an alien has gotten in" then yeah I would call the land lord to sort it.

It's a perk of renting that you get to do that.

I think part of the issue is that in the UK renting is seen as a bad thing by some and only to be done if you can't afford to buy, when in reality it should be like the difference between buying and leasing a car. Yeah you can buy it for less but if something breaks it's all on you as the owner, but if you lease you have the garage there to sort it because it isn't yours you pay extra for that service. Renting should be the same it is a poor thing or worse than buying it is a different approach.

If it’s just one alien then I’d probably buy some traps and hope I could catch the strawberry floater. If it’s an infestation though, I’d expect the landlord to pay for an exterminator.

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Karl wrote:I think the right thing to do is to ask the landlord to provide traps. But I personally would find that interaction difficult, so actually I would be likely to just deal with it myself.

I look forward to getting a double dose of "banter" from GRcade's illustrious comedians for both renting and having poor social skills, a hilarious combination.

Reported to landlords for trolling.

I'd still what I did in the exact situation I had years ago - bought a humane trap and some peanut butter. I think I had them all gone in a week, caught 4 or 5 and took them to a local field to let them go.

Presuming the landlord drops the traps off are you then expecting them to check the traps every day? Empty any catches?

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