Again with the neighbors....
So again with complaining neighbors, one of them was going on about my garbage getting on peoples lawns. I agree, thats a valid complaint but I put my garbage in the CAN so sorry buddy, bark up another tree. I ignored him until I noticed he was right, squirrels had chewed a hole through my garbage can and were littering garbage about the neighborhood. I had the city bring a replacement lid, twice and within a week they had chewed through again and my garbage had become everyone's business. The third call for a new lid was ignored and the squirrels lived in a garbage paradise as they mocked me while I walked to my car in the mornings.
My neighbor across the alley (one of the good ones) politely suggested I put my trash can in the garage until trash day. Although I respect his opinion, uhhhh....NO!
Not only will my absent mind forget trash day I do a lot of projects in there and the last thing I want is the stench of baby diapers and rotted pizza while I'm trying to build something...like a high powered sling shot to murder squirrels with for instance!
The solution seemed simple enough, design a bunch of cruel jagged metal traps that would kill all of them and thus rid me of my problem. My wife informed me this is not cool, and may even cause an untimely divorce so on to plan B...THE SQUIRREL BUSTER! Not mearly as fun but seemed to do the trick.
Basically just a 1/4 inch thick chunk of aluminum cnc cut, welded and attached to the top of my garbage can lid with 3 times the amount of bolts it would ever need so no amount of squirrel power will penetrate my precious garbage Take that vermin...MY GARBAGE!!! MINE!!!
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