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  • You must equip your mouse with a brain-dead companion and a book entitled "So, you're going to try to take over the world?"

  • Give it to a animal shop, and demand it to be fed to a snake.

  • @nohero23 Or, take it to a pet shop and demand your money back because the salesman told you that it was a parrot. Stick to that story despite all arguments for reason. Even if they don't take the mouse, you'll have some wonderful material for a comedy sketch.

    The only risk is that you might end up with a parrot.

  • ..... i wunder how that mouse is now?

  • 2:10-2:25 is genius

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  • Hammer and mop...

  • @DisturbedRetards brilliant. shop vac?

  • You can get it, stuff it in a box, and then send by mail it to this direction.

    1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20502

  • David, drop a BAFTA on it

  • i had a mouse for ages that irritated me no end, used a glue trap and put it down by the bin one evening and an hour later it was there squealing - i thought i would have trouble killing one but it had been so annoying me i found it surprisingly easy to do.

  • That's what Hyde Park is for. It's much closer and looks enough like countryside for mouse transplant purposes. Just take it out to a suitable lush portion and elease it there. Just don't release it near Speaker's corner, that would not be nice. 

  • I hid, squealing, behind my lesbian housemate who smashed the mouse with one of my dress shoes, worked pretty well actually.

    PS. I am a man, allegedly.

  • get a cage.

  • Kill it by dropping one of your BAFTAs on it?

  • @Kitlun79 Damn! I was going to type that. :)

  • Look, does the mouse pay tax? room and board? tv license? If not, consider calling up your accountant and have them pour through your finances with your lawyer.

    Determine how much the mouse owes you in back-fees. If the mouse refuses to pay up, I'm sure the courts would find judgement in your favour-and a bailiff might come around to evict the bastard. Too much trouble? Have a friend or family member visit with their cat-he could stay until the mouse is found, cat goes home, no more mouse. XD

  • I had a pet rat that I was fed up with, the pet shop didn't want it back so I "kindly" released it in the countryside. But since it was a bright white rat, I guess it was dead before morning, caught by some owl...

  • @poppylv21 Tyrant...

  • @poppylv21 wow wow. that is so cruel. Poor rat. mad me sad 

  • Hammer!!!

  • Now see what you do is as follows: capture the mouse in a non-lethal trap, Find that one guy... you know the one with the thing who you really don't like all that much but are friends with anyway, Get him to invite you over, Release the mouse in his house and now it's his problem.

  • NO ONE ELSE LIKE THIS!!! theres 666 likes and its cool so please dont.

  • You can get these plug in things that make a noise inaudiable to humans but deters mice.

  • Release the House Hippo! They will battle to the death.

  • Catch it in a live trap, then transport it to your nearest enemy's home; the mouse still gets food, and your enemy inherits your problem.

  • I know I'm probably a few years late, but I guess you could always kill it with your BAFTA.

  • You chop-guzzling lever-shot hypocrite.

  • My girlfriend would love to have your mouse, unfortunatly we live about 2 hours away, which will make the trip a little longer than your 3 hour round trip

  • @Omni315 a two hour trip will take longer than a three hour trip?o.o

  • @sKRAPtheRIpPER 3 Hour round trip or 2 hours either way :P

  • Capture it then put it in a larger cage.

    Congratulations, you now have a pet mouse. Sell it if you don't want it.

  • 4 iron

  • Poison. They eat it, go back behind the wainscoting to their nest and die there.

    I caught a mouse in my flat last year (and I will boast about this one: it was with my bare hands). It was about 3am, too late to take it to a park, so i poked some holes in the lid of a large jar and put it in there. It was dead the next morning.

  • @Nickonar Since Carbon-dioxide is heavier than air it settled at the bottom of the jar. Since mice are not known for their outstanding hight, it doesn't take much for the CO2 to replace the air at breathing hight for the mouse. It suffocated. You could have put it in a zip-lock bag and placed that bag in a tub full of water. The effect would be the same, but you could have had an underwater mouse for a short period of time.

  • Get a snake. At least they aren't furry

  • the mouse owns you now. there's only 2 viable solutions. the first is to remove all the food from your house for a month. the second is to burn everything and start again. you strike me as the burn everything type.

  • @popeyroach You, Sir, made me LOL.

  • He's using his soapbox to kill his mouse.

  • The advantage of a live trap is that if you handle it properly, you never have come into contact with the mouse. Mice have fleas. Fleas from a dead mouse are looking for a new host.

    Bait the trap with just a dab of peanut butter. Once the mouse is captured, carry the trap with the live mouse inside it a block or more away from your home and release it.

    In an urban setting, that's all the distance from your home you need to give it ample opportunity to find someone else to mooch off of.

  • write it a stern letter

  • i just love that everyone is giving serious consideration to what to do with, what is most likely, an imaginary mouse:)

  • sell it on ebay

  • There are parks in London, release the mouse there. It can gorge on rubbish and nest in a sleeping tramp's beard(and conveniently keep it clean of crumbs and other debris, except for poo).

  • I live in the countryside, mice are small enough to stamp on, if it comes to rats and bigger then pitchforks, golf clubs, air rifles and dogs are used :) I love my job!

  • Trap the mouse, don't drive three hours away, but three blocks away, and release it. Just pick a place with lots of either stray cats or easy access to garbage. Either way, I don't think he will return to your place any time soon.

  • the problem is a small fury creature, get a python let it lose in the house it will eat the mouse then send the python to a zoo.

  • I heard peppermint works.

  • I once killed a mouse with the hammer when I was a kid, I think I was around 7 years old, I don't know what the fuck was wrong with me.

  • @777Atheist Ben watching cartoons by the sound of it.

  • Mmmm.....bombay mix and wasabi peas.....

  • In your position I'd have asked Bill Bailey to catch it in his owl costume. :)

  • nonlethal trap + rodent water distribution system + sedatives + gloves + open window + slingshot = problem solved.

    You're welcome.

  • catch the mouse live and try and send it to australia, they will not let it in, but make sure it finds a nice home

  • @thatsmesothere no we won't let it in, but it's not the fault of our inexplicably conservative, yet nominally "forward-thinking", government, because it jumped the "queue". it won't be put in a nice home, it will be deposited just south of a war zone, or in a mouldy detention centre where it will be deprived of proper human rights and not allowed to attend its dead parents' funerals. and if we do let it in, it will be subject to a crippling pressure to conform.

  • @loveliestwilde AAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHA . i think youre forgetting that its a mouse and not a human. we have so many laws to protect animals, just none to protect humans. Love how you think. i laughed so hard when i read your reply, so true.

  • As an American, all I can suggest is attempting to get it to convert to Islam, putting it into an electric chair, and executing it, while mumbling something about immigrants and gods work being done.

  • i catch and freeze them....

  • @darthesgoobis123 you sick fuck

  • @laterzkaterz its less cruel than snapping there head in half and its like han solo in empire strikes back they don't feel any pain I freeze them and put them in the bins so the garbage truck takes them to the tip and who knows they might survive.

  • @darthesgoobis123

    Yeah... hate to break it to you, but I don't think any of them would survive

  • @darthesgoobis123 It's really not. Neck snapping is insta-death. In a freezer, they die slowly and in AGONY from hypothermia. Their extremeties freeze before they die, which is also real effin painful (ask anyone who has gotten severe frostbite and required amputation afterwards)

    I actually keep dead mice in my freezer, for my snake, but they are killed humanely with C02 gas(like a lot of the chickens we eat). NEVER kill something by freezing, it's incredibly cruel.

  • @laterzkaterz its nice, they just go to sleep. like an old man dying in his bed, after his wife has died a week before and he is slowly dying due to a broken heart. like that. completely nice.

  • My dad lives in the countryside. He catches the mice in humane traps and keeps them in a holding pen until there are two. Then he walks a mile or so through the fields to an old shed. He releases them there, and puts a stash of peanuts in a specially designed box with a hole in it that will allow in mice, but nothing any larger. He goes up a few times a week to top up the nuts, in the hopes that the mice will think they get a better deal in the shed than in the house.

  • @tuemahs What a lovely person! I do something similar :]

  • @BrightOnimicon That's reassuring! I didn't have room to say that he sets his alarm for 4 in the morning to get up and check the humane trap so any mouse isn't stuck in there too long. If there is a mouse it goes into the holding pen and he resets the trap. If he doesn't catch another one he just releases the first mouse back into the house and tries again to get two or more to go up to the mouse colony! I'm not convinced, personally, that the method works.

  • @tuemahs Wow, he is just the nicest person ever ^^ Good to see that not everyone would prefer to mutilate and kill the mouse :] And from my experience that method is very effective, I got rid of all the mice in my home in about four days.

  • Catch mouse in soundproof box. Seal box completely. Bury box. Quantum physics dictates that the mouse will not only be dead due to suffocation but also STILL ALIVE, thus sparing you the ethical problems associated with extermination.

  • @johnnydarke You forgot the radioactive isotope and vial of poison! Now the mouse is just dead!

  • @johnnydarke as Richard Feynman famously said "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." In your case, I'm afraid he's right.

  • @lovingthegaylien I think it was meant as humour.

  • I will quote QI and merely say: Kestrels.

  • Dude, look. It's too late to decide you're too manly to have a cat. And that whole hay-horse-whatever issue is gone as long as you don't decide you're too manly to have a cat. Give it a hug, let it eat your mice and insects, and enjoy its company.

  • Catch mouse alive, then sell it on eBay as the famous David Mitchell Mouse.

  • Catch mouse alive, put in jam jar, put in bin. Let Fate decide if it gets out alive.

  • Catch mouse alive, tie to rocket, take vigorous notes at launch and scream "Science!"

  • Catch the mouse and put it in the cupboard and forget about it. 

  • Had to murder a mouse once, did it with a hammer. Not doing that again.

  • Is this not really simple? Drill a hole(large enough for a mouse trap) through into your next-door neighbour's house. Slide the mouse trap through and then once the mouse is caught, close up the hole and deny ever having made such a thing.

  • hey thats guy from the Apple Ad . He is windows in this Ad :D

  • lol!

  • Hit it with a freeze pop.

  • I agree with everything he just said. But I still have a live mouse in a plastic box next to me which I'm still unsure what to do about!

  • ok first thing you will need is a long piece of tubing.....Preferably made of plastic, then once you have caught the mouse you will need to insert the tube into your Anu....oh wait that's for gerbils.... never mind.

  • 1. Catch the mouse alive 2. Sell it to a pet shop 3. No phase 3 4. Profit

  • kill it

  • catch the mouse and visit an older relative for tea and leave it there they wont notice mice are to quick and leave little evidence that older folk won't notice

  • David, what on earth was this about? I couldn't follow it all and I'm not even drunk.

  • I too had this problem, the mouse/mice were rather cute and were quite happy to come out on my landing whilst I was watching tv. We tried a humane trap, but we forget about it and months later when a smell emerged in the kitchen we realised the trap had caught a mouse only the poor thing starved to death. So then came real traps and I shot one with my air pistol. It solved the problem.

  • I'm not DATING the mouse! LOL

  • I feel bad for thinking put it in someone's window XD. Don't do that!

  • Catch it using a non-fatal trap and then set it free several blocks away in a street.

    Also paint a hat on it or something before you release it and imagine the whacky adventures he will have.

  • call pest control.

  • I want a house horse. :(

  • Mice are smarter then Humans and Dolphins. You're buggered.

  • 1. catch it alive

    2. put in in your neighbor's house

    3. pour sugar into their carpet(s).

    4. sound utterly shocked when they complain about a mouse and weird crunching sounds they hear whenever their foot hits the carpet.

  • What happened to the mouse?

  • u already mentioned the solution, get somebody else to kill it, everybody already knows ur a pussy, cant get any worse....

  • Use the universial off-switch on the mouse, also known as a hammer.

  • (laughing)

    Oh man, I really like listening to you.

  • Move out.

  • He should drop a BAFTA on it.

  • Haha " the calorific content of a couple of grapes". Made me laugh in my office, as people awkwardly looked on at me...

  • Dear David, marry me and I'll see to it that your mouse 'meets with a little accident' (if that isn't needlessly ambiguous of course...) mwahaha

  • @ThoraxTheAvnger Look man I have a right of opinion and I think hes boring. You r not even making any f*n sense with ur ridiculous comment so y dont u start making some sense. David mitchell aint funny anymore.

  • Take it to Robert Webb's house. Let him worry about it.

  • boring! not funny and not interesting.

  • @Mashedpotatoe1000 You're boring, not interesting, and not funny.

  • Catch mouse. Tie it to candle for 3 days. Force him to watch your efforts of building a tiny house. Add tiny food in the tiny kitchen. Let him loose and watch him enjoy the comforts of his new home. Raid his home. Poo in his lounge. See how he likes it.

  • @LEFTJEFFA love it!

  • @LEFTJEFFA Why can't I light the candle

  • @LEFTJEFFA thanks for that, made me laugh

  • Catch it. Feed it to a pet snake.

  • Tell a friend of yours who has a cat "There's a mouse in my flat. Would you mind terribly bringing your cat over some evening to take care of it?"

  • Drug their onions.

  • Just bring someone else in to kill the mouse for you. You baby ;)

  • My cat brought a mouse back from one of her nighttime forays. My mum lost her marbles at the sight of it.

  • At least it's only a mouse. I had a rat in my apartment. I have a cat, but the rat scurried someplace where my cat couldn't go, which is probably for the best. My cat might have gotten injured in a fight with the rat, which would have been awful, or if he'd killed the rat I'd have to have dealt with the bloody corpse. I can't even stand to deal with a dead bug (my cat brought me a "gift" of a dead waterbug one night). I'd like a humane, cheap way to catch a rat without harming her/him.

  • @YY4Me133 get some cheese, now get a box, put the cheese in the box, wait for the rat to get in the box, close the box on the rat, tape it up, throw it out, there it's not harmed, it's out of your house, and when it dies you'll be none the wiser

  • @YY4Me133 Small quantity of chloroform on some conveniently forgotten food stuff? Place in bag, take elsewhere, maybe near some bins, when it wakes up it's got a nibble. Either that or just brave the storm and kill the thing, with a novelty plastic mallet...

  • @YY4Me133 My dad used the domed cover of a cake-plate to great effect once in catching a rat. I can't remember how things went on from there....

  • I've been contemplating this same problem for a month, which has given the mice time to reproduce, so now I have baby mice running around in my kitchen, which I want to kill even less because they are simply adorable. I might try to drug them. Sleeping mice are easier to catch and set free. In short: I've decided to treat this as many do politics: what happens outside of my house is not my responsibility.

  • the best thing to do is drown it in a bucket

  • Thumbs up for the eye bite?

  • Catch it in a humane trap, and let it go close to a home of someone you hate<3

  • Catapult. It might survive landing, and if it doesn't, you can tell yourself that it may have.

  • Show said mouse entire collection of Hyperdrive and then crouch down and go on incessantly about how wonderful Nick Frost really is. Problem solved.

  • Be a man.

  • Borrow a cat from a friend or neighbor. When the mouse is caught, return the cat.

  • Do what they did to Korea split it down the middle then spend the rest of your days knowing that the flames of battle could start up again at any moment.

  • Insert tube into your anus, introduce mouse into said tube, enjoy!

  • i love how all the comments read as if david had written them :L as far as the mouse is concerned - 2 years on it's probably dead

  • @whoskateswins after it's bred. now you have many, many more...

  • Wainscotting... sounds like a little Dorset village, doesn't it? Wainscotting.

  • This is one of my faves :-)

  • burn your house down. no more house for your mouse.

  • You could accidentally move a cupboard over the mouse as I once did. The guilt of killing the mouse is slightly diminished. Then you could put it in a plastic bag and put it in the bin and say a few words about how you didn't mean to kill it and that it is sad that humans and rodents couldn't develop a similar kind of symbiotic relationship that make so many other animals our willing or incognisant slaves.

  • Trap it in one of those box trap things where it doesn't die, then release it in a restaurant that has terrible service and under cooks your food, the mouse gets some nice food and you get a nice bit of revenge. Everybody wins (except the restaurant but we don't care about them).

  • Borrow a friend's cat for a week or so.

  • @RoryM92 how are vegetarians hypocrites?

  • @johnyprestige

    Short version? Because they don't eat rocks. They eat plants, which are also alive, which makes them killers as much as anyone else.

    It's a nice idea, but a flawed one that can only exist in fables or with modern science. You may think you're being healthy and obeying nature, but the fact is, you're denying a section of your natural diet so you can pretend your hands never got dirty in the process of feeding yourself. But everything eats something else. And that's life.

  • @AdamaGeist Plants don't have consciousness . I can empathize for an animal because they experience incredible pain and fear being killed; Whereas a cucumber......I don't think I'm obeying anything but my own moral obligations. Don't think you know other people and other peoples intentions, because you don't and you just end up making yourself sound like a dick.

  • @johnyprestige

    I'll refrain from the obvious rejoinder, and move on to the rest, which is.. Yes, plants do notice when they're being harvested. They do show signs of reacting to physical threats and danger, as best they can. If they feel pain or not is hard to say, as they generally move too slowly to witness. But they do feel something.

    As I said, the difference between you and I isn't morality as such, but facing facts. Life feeds on life. I don't pretend I'm not culpable, and you?

  • @johnyprestige Consciousness my friend. That is where the morality lies. Not whether or not the plants react to stimuli. Life feeds on energy, in many forms. Look, i don't want to argue with you; I'm certainly not going to change my opinion, and I'm pretty sure that you're not either so shall we just not talk to each other. I've been through this argument too many times.

  • @RoryM92 Obviously, because we aren't hypocrites.

  • @kofieye

    see that's the beauty of a true hypocrite, they don't realize they are one. Vegetarianism is a cute idea, but unfortunately it is wrong. Not in that 1940's Germany kill all the Jews sort of way but rather in the way that we are meant to eat meat. You can deny that fact all you want but you will still have your canines firmly attached. If we were meant to eat nothing but vegetables all day long we wouldn't have teeth designed to tear flesh.

  • @z3r0t0l3r4ns Ah the beauty of the anti-vegetarian... Always trying to criticize a section of people who have made an extremely intelligent and compassionate decision which harms no one. Face it there is no real way to criticize a person being a vegetarian whereas there are countless ways to argue against a person eating a burger made from the carcass of an animal which had no way to defend itself.

  • @ElDiabloMuerte Well, extremely intelligent can be discussed far and wide... but I'd concede it's a compassionate choice and that it harms no one (as long as they get all the nutrients they need). I got no problem with vegetarians, except the preachy ones who try to guilt-trip you into thinking in their fashion. The cows we use for various produce live comfortable lives: they are fed at regular intervals, milked and cared for and they never have to deal with the stress of feeling hunted.

  • @Bunji2k6 The intelligence matter doesn't need to be discussed far and wide, it's glaringly obvious that it is a smart decision to make... For example, is it not intelligent to make a decision which helps to reduce the size of an industry which is the No. 1 (according to the UN, not crazy vegan hippies) contributor to global warming? Is it not intelligent to make a decision which yields huge benefits to personal health?

  • @ElDiabloMuerte Oh, I know that the whole food-industry (and transportation of food) around the globe contributes to the warming to a large degree. I just like meat a lot. A more approachable goal for everyone would be to have a vegetarian day in their week or something. That would cut down on a lot of the consumption. Ideally, we'd go back to only getting our wares from local producers, which would also automatically limit population-growth beyond what is sustainable. Everyone wins! :D

  • @ElDiabloMuerte Carrot juice is murder!

  • @kofieye

    Yes, you are. My god, you are. You don't think of it as such, but that's because you don't actually seem to think of the things you eat as alive, in that they don't move about and make noises. But the simple fact is, they are. In many cases, what you're eating is alive AS you eat it, and doesn't die till you start digesting it. It's a very nice playground fantasy to think otherwise, but you and I both know that apple you eat could have been a tree that lived for five hundred years.

  • i found a mouse before, set a trap piece o cheese. came back it was crushed on the trap. i picked it up at the trap base mouse atop it.. stuck it in the bin emptied the bin.. took me a minute less than this video.

  • There's a moose loose aboot his hoose!

    I haven't even thought of that in years. Cheers Davo.

  • Humane trap + someone else's letterbox = many lolz BUT possible legal complications?

  • I set up sticky traps and caught my mouse. Once they get stuck there's no getting unstuck. I just dropped a brick on his head outside. That did the trick!

  • Shove it Page Rage

  • Craigslist ad for a snake owner.

    Snakes love mice!

  • My house horse craps in the cupboard too.

  • he reminds me of my grandad.

  • Move.

  • I'm American, so my first answer is a .22. Then again, I'm American and can aim. Your quarters will look much better without .22 rounds sprayed all over the place.

    Maybe you should train a hawk? It lives in a cage and, every now and then, you just let it out to hunt.

  • @Raventoll May I direct you towards the american friendly fire numbers in recent wars, and this is by people supposedly trained in the art of marksmanship and handling of said shooty items.

    Yours Sincerely

    The British

  • @xfrolickerx To be fair, you'll only be able to criticize our marksmanship if we miss. And we do seem to be shooting what we're aiming at. Whether or not that's you has nothing to do with our marksmanship.

  • You leather-clad, chop-munching hypocrite. At least us vegetarians have proper grounds to be ethical objectors to mouse-murder. You my friend have no such excuse and ought to man up.