we had a mouse in our house..

[alsenior]

screw you people and your fancy weaponry. i'm lobbing old scsi hard drives at them. swift easy and deals with 2 problems at once

[MadduckUK]

5.25" ones i hope

[alsenior]

no 3.5 but they still weigh a good 1/2 kilo and have lots of blunt edges

[Zak33]

for anyone needing to humanely kill something little:

put it in carrier bag, put small holes in bag to allow gas to escape, put it over running cars exhaust pipe.
leave for 5 minutes, at tick over. use rubber band to hold it on to stop you getting smelly of exhaust fumes.

i do this when im wiith someone sqeamish.

[megah0]

There are 3 legal humane ways to kill a rodent (in a research institute anyway)

Grip the blighter by the tail and smack its head off a nearby surface, instant death. The wrist flick takes a little practice.

Grip it by the body, place a dowelling rod behind the skull and pull apart quickly, again instant.

Place into a sealed container and pump oxygen and carbon dioxide into it, they just go to sleep without panic, without oxygen they will panic and try and jump out of the container.

[Bluecube]

Or you could do as my Mum once did and toast it. Dumb mouse ran into the toaster so my Mum just whacked it down... She didn't tell me until a couple of days and several slices of toast later...!

[Brucelles]

I quite like the carrier bag method. It sounds pretty decent. I used to have to kill chickens when I had a summer job on a chicken farm, and the trick is to hold them by the head and crack them like a whip.