May 3, 2009
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The Life or Death of a Slug
A slug has made its way into my home.
I have captured him. I can let him out of the house. Or I can pour salt on him causing him to die a painful death.
The life of the slug is in your hands.
Should the slug live or die?
Comments (186)
Don’t be cruel…take him outside!
I will make it my pet.
Let it go.
Or else God has a salt shaker with your name on it, Dan!!!
Pick it up with a tissue and let it outside. If you pour salt on it, you’ll still end up having to pick it up and get rid of it when it dies.
die. they’re slimy. and you saved it from being eaten, so technically you are doing it a good deed.
@BehindPinkSunglasses - <—- yeah, what she said.
If I was 6 years younger id say kill him.
@alltimelow22 - When a baby is aborted, he is being saved from death by old age. Technically, fetus-murder is a good thing.
Live.
I just think you should salt it. I don’t care a bit if you do it inside or outside, I just think you should salt it. I don’t have any problems with them, I just think that salting it would be fun.
@CelestialTeapot - i can’t tell, are you being sarcastic?
Eat it
SALT THAT FUCKER
Yuck. Slugs. I’d say kill it cuz they make me get all wiggly.
This sounds like the SAW movies….just toss em outside
omg that is disgusting!!! i HATE slugs… i seriously think i have a phobia. scratch that…i do have a phobia. i recommend salt. LOTS of it.
Watching a slug bubble is awesome. The kids should have front row seats.
@alltimelow22 - I was satirically mimicing your argument. No, I wasn’t serious.
Don’t be a dick. Take it outside.
Eh, it’s just a slug. Take it outside and THEN salt it. No mess for you to clean up that way.
GROSSS!!! KILL IT KILL IT!!!!
@CelestialTeapot - lol. mkay then. well all the same. kill the stupid slug. its a SLUG. eh.
I’ve never seen a slug salted, so I might do it out of curiousity, but let it outside.
How did a slug get into your home? Window must’ve been open for a LOOOOONG time. Just take it outside.
cook it for dinner. yummy yummy.
life.
If you salt it, it will stick to your floor like GLUE. It’s more of a mess than it’s worth. Trust me. My dad salted a legion of slugs on our deck once and even rain wouldn’t wash them completely away for months! Put it outside for its good and your own!
P.S. Even if you kill it you’ll have to wipe it up somehow, more messily. Might as well let it live.
Update us on its fate!
Let it DIE.
Aww, just let it out! Hah
If you salt it, will you youtube it?
My fiance loves slugs for some reason. And he’d be terribly sad if I told him that you poured salt on one and killed it. Please take it outside!
Why not make a maze out of salt and put his own destiny in his hands???? If he makes it, take him outside.
eat it XD
live! make it a home and give it meat!
all those steroids and stuff with make it grow be faithful to you so you can take over the world!
Make it eat all the city!
or just leave it there. as long as it lives
place him outside!
KILL IT – let see it shrivel up and dry up
none of us have a life, do we? this is just so sad…
@Xcholo4u - GREAT idea. Do that one Dan.
If you decide to kill it, can you make sure you film it and put it up?
let it roam freeeeeee
and get it self killed by all the world has to offer
=)
Let her go, for heavens sake Dan!!!
SALT!!
@Xcholo4u – That’s a great and guilt-free idea!
otherwise…
FREE THE SLUG!
let it live.
Walk around the house with it hanging out of your nose and see if you can impress your wife and kids as much as you do the rest of us here on xanga.
What a question?
I hope you let him/her live.
I think I salted a slug once, when I was really, really young, because they grossed me out. Spare the poor guy.
keep it alive!!! don’t kill him!
Live. :/
salt & pepper & nom nom nom it down.
of cause ” live “!!
LEAVE SLUGGY ALONE!!
Let him live.
Live! Live! Live!
the CTY chant comes to mind ["live live live live live die die die die..." punctuated by exclamation points all the way through..]
let the slug live..
@LightningRichy - Not necessarily. It could have just been open at just the right time…
LIVE!
have you ever salted a slug before? it’s awful to watch and takes a loooong time.
i say let him live, but if you must kill him, then step on him.
I think the slug would let you live, you should return the favor.
let the poor thing live.
i love slug and snail! they are cute! bring it to the most beautiful garden and place it under the biggest plant
Oh for Christ’s sake let the poor thing live. You really aren’t that sadistic are you?
LIVE!!!
Eww, throw it out.
thats so cruel
Eww, why does the slug look so plump and juicy? Yuck, yuck, yuck!
I like the maze idea. It made me laugh for like….2 whole minutes. So make a maze out of salt….leading outside.
if not……hhmmm….well, you are the dad and the husband, so……kill him. Take him outside and kill him to save yourself from a dirty slimy house. Or flush him in the toilet.
Im a girl….so even if when I have daughters ima call my husband to do it…and if hes not around…I hope I have a tomboy daughter to help me Bc I wont be able to do it.
As a human, a Buddhist, Im NOT going to judge you on what you do. =) (see how loving Buddhists are? =P )
Throw it in your compost pile.
If I weren’t a business professional, I’d be an Entomologist. Let him go. Please.
live please
No salting…. please……
Just take it out. It just went the wrong way.
Prove to me that it would be painful. Its a slug, who says they feel pain?
Salt it. Then put a salt barrier around the perimeter of your home so his friends don’t come seeking revenge.
LIVE!!!
Are you having a bad day, Dan? This doesn’t seem like you. The Buddhist in me obviously says set him free. I don’t even kill spiders in my home – they get put outside, too. I don’t see any reason to be the cause of death for something else that’s just trying to survive like the rest of us. Of course we exterminate to keep bugs out, but I can’t bring myself to just step on a spider or salt a slug or something. But that’s just me – Paul is squeamish when it comes to spiders and stuff so he just squishes them.
The recommendation for gardners is to kill them. If you want them to make you soil rich, great. If you wish to have dead plants, then set him free. If you just think it’s cool to see him bubble up and melt to death then salt him.
Personally, I’d salt him.
Eat him. Bake at 450 F. for about 15 minutes, add lemon juice and garlic butter.
Enjoy.
Steve
please tell me you let it go
Salt em…
The only slug that ever found its way into our house died a painful and salty death so Hubby and I could show Little One what happens when you pour salt on a slug. I say…have a science lesson with your daughter!
Salt is natural…that makes it good…right?
Take the slug outside… please?
HAHA, no one yells first anymore.
@Krissy_Cole - Just wondering, because I notice it very often on Xanga, but are married women required to call their husbands “hubby”?
let it live!
what the hell is so fun about watching an animal die? people are sick.
if God existed, this would probably be how he felt just before a typhoon struck and killed thousands of people.
<3
I don’t know, where was it you found this slug in your house?
@odiado - haha. I have always called him that. Even in real life. If it makes you feel better about that trend, he calls me Nagula or Nagulese (depending on whether or not he feels that I am behaving like a monster or a Roman.) Maybe I will start calling him Spouse. I wonder if that would throw four years worth of readers for a loop…I think you inspired me to rename my husband on Xanga! Suggestions?
it would live if I found it first, however, if Allie white paws finds it first, said slug would wish for salt.
Take him outside and salt him, so you don’t make a mess in the house. Duh.
I feel like déja vu – that movie about kid killing people online, and the more ppl watches it the faster they die.
Let the poor thing go Dan.
@Dare2BDiferentt - evil, so evil
Live because you don’t want somebody to end your life for no apparent reason.
LOL… salt. Totally weird.
Let him live
@tigerdauphin - I think you would squish it before you’d touch something slimey and take it outside.
And what if he loves salty foods? That could be why he was in the house.
@Dare2BDiferentt - lol I encountered lots of slug and all I do is use a stick or piece of paper to pick it up. But now after reading @MySecretLoveAffair - about how slugs ruin your garden… maybe I’ll salt him after all. Or set him upon my neighbor’s garden
i kid i kid
Let him outside. He’s not doing anything wrong other than being disgusting.
@tigerdauphin - You’re so evil. I’m never ever talking to you again. Evar.
I get slugs a lot the porch of my barn. I salt them.
I hate slugs. Whenever they found their way into our old house in KS we’d pour salt on them and watch them die.
I vote for salt.
Ewww, gross!
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Let it live.
LIIIIIIIIIVE!
Let it live!
Die.. hot water and salt..
LET IT GO!!!!
Let it live, or else God’s gonna payback to you. We don’t want slug flu in the future kthnxbye.
Let it live.
There should not be a question. Let it go. One day your life will be in another creature’s hands and I hope it will remember what you did for this slug.
My twisted morbid mind is telling me to put salt on that damn slug.
Put him outside. There’s no reason to hurt him.
live. be nice.
Let him see life!
let it live!
Well this is fucked up.
Let it live.
Live. What harm can a slug do, unless you have a garden? No diseases, no venomous bites, no loud yapping.
Let it live
oh please, let it go.
im a little too late, i suppose. hope you just let it outside.
@Xcholo4u - agreed!
Pour a can of beer in a small dish. Slugs love beer and he will slither into it and drown himself. If i were a slug, i’d rather die drunk than get salt poured on me
Poor snail! Let him outside!
LIVE!!! Let it live!!!
Salt it outside.
Pleaaaase
Sorry Sluggo, but it’s time to meet your maker.
Blehck..
Do what you want just don’t step on it..
Salt it.
Let him live!
um… I would let it outside, and then pour salt on it. Just because I figure it would turn into a mess =
Bring it over here. I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a slug in real life.
drown it in beer.
I’d make him my pet.
@LightningRichy - lol
Don’t kill it Dan. Just let it go.
Let him live, he’s cute!!!
Live.
@Krissy_Cole - Long-term lover or male counterpart!
LMAO you want to SALT IT?
Karma, man. Karma.
so icky!
i say use salt and set up a path that leads him straight outside
if he glides into the salt.. that’s not reeaally your fault, you’re just trying to lead him outside =p
please let us know what you do in the end ^__^
Salt it.
hahaha wow this is toooo funny
live
this is kind of scary though, that the life of a living creature is relying on the say so of a bunch of internet idiots? have some class… and respect…
Salt it. A true science lesson!!!
I guess my instant reaction would be to kill it. I know, terrible.
Not with salt though; I’d probably step on it or something.
make a video i wanna see a slug shrink
Uh… I’d kill him. Yuck.
@NightCometh - Hahaha. Best comment ever.
please, please, please tell me you didn’t really consider salting it.
Lol, butthead.
Let it live, duh.
eat it.
Take it outside. Karma will come around and, one day, someone will take you outside, too.
Live!!! He never hurt anyone!
LET THE SLUG GO!
LIVE!
LIVE.
i’ll be amused if this isn’t about a real slug, but refers to something else. tricky!
free it
Salt that bitch
let your cat and him battle it out, tape it, put it on youtube
but no seriously, let him live
This is obviously a publicity stunt to generate traffic.
Let him live. Even if slugs are soulless, and there is no true morality or afterlife, and karma’s just one big fallacy, let him live because there’s no legitimate reason not to.
& then the next time life decides to salt you, think back to this and revel in your true smallness. If you ever find yourself as vulnerable and endangered as that star-crossed little slug, dare to hope that maybe the greater hand in your fate will decide to put the saltshaker down because you, too, once showed such mercy.
Okay, so I am an omnivore… but still. I’m rooting for the little guy. =)
Don’t kill it!
Let him live! ):
fry pan with some evoo?
Put the slug right next to a bowl of fresh beer, and let it choose its fate – it would either drown in the beer happily or walk away soberly.
I’m guessing by now the poor thing has met whatever you decided to make its fate. I hope you weren’t cruel. What did it ever do to you to deserve to die in agony?
awww. save it!
Let it live, or kill it quickly.
@BehindPinkSunglasses - Dan can always just do the dirty deed outside the house and leave the slug to die.
.. after pouring salt and other nasty bubly (and hopefully acidic shit all over it.)
try spicy toothpaste.
or um, coca-cola.
Let him live!!!
@Mikain - Regardless, he still has to pick it up and bring it outside.
I’ve made my point.
I don’t think the slug wants to be there either. Just let it go.
it’s not the slug’s fault he’s a slug. just take him back outside.
@gentlydreaming - not to get all philosophical about a slug…. but this made me happy. cause i hope he lives (lived?) too. (:
Ech. DIE. Or squish it.
Now, now. Why would you do such a thing? Its so terribly cruel, and then you might want to graduate to bigger things afterwards.
Let it live. What purpose would you have for killing it? It won’t hurt you and probably can’t.
Let it out~
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors”
LIVE!!!!
it’s innocent..BUT GROSS!! eh…just let it out,far away form your house!
haha die bitch, die.
justt kidding. let it gooo.
you can kill a slug by pouring salt on it?
really?
i’ve never heard of that (at least not that i’ve remember hearing that is)… why is it so though?
I usually get someone else do the job. But, just in case of Karma let him go.
Salt that sucker
I doubt it’s conscious, but why destroy it?
how cruel lol