There was a cricket chirping in our maintenance shop that everybody complained about. I didn't bother me at all but when I seen it I had to stomp it, thought I done good, ya know for the gang... now I find out everybody says I'm doomed w/ bad luck. A lotta googles say likewise. Am I really berkeleyed? 
Could have scooped him up a flicked him outside. Just sayin'. And the guys who complained about it, but say your screwed despite solving their problem are shiny happy people. 
Well, I'm not one to believe in that stuff but...
I vacuumed one up last week at work, Saturday my Volvo comitted hari-kari and Monday my wife got thrown off her horse.
Next time I'll just herd it outside.
... and then I find more lore that when wasps build a nest near your house... like the nest right near my front porch steps that's good luck.... but Dad killed 'em all yesterday
...and that full moon Saturday... much, much averse to my sign
Think I'll lock myself inside for a few weeks 
I used to drive a Plymouth Cricket. I killed it too, when a drunk guy in a van ran head on into me at about 15 mph. That's all I got.
Yeah, you're not supposed to kill 'em. You're supposed to carve ornate houses for them and keep them as pets. Sheesh! 
1988RedT2 wrote: Yeah, you're not supposed to kill 'em. You're supposed to carve ornate houses for them and keep them as pets. Sheesh!
Right. That would drive me effing insane... Fortunately, the little bastards have kept to the garage this year. It's a bitch when they find a way into my basement and keep me awake all night...
Now if I toast and eat the crickets, does that mean I'm fill with good luck, or bad luck?
I would've picked him up and tossed him outside. That said, I probably killed a dozen with the mower this weekend. Killin it at work this week, got invited to run Chumpcar at Road Atl last night, and got laid this morning.
poopshovel wrote: I would've picked him up and tossed him outside. That said, I probably killed a dozen with the mower this weekend. Killin it at work this week, got invited to run Chumpcar at Road Atl last night, and got laid this morning.
Wow! You're on a roll! 
Not the same as a cricket invasion, but fall is here. When my wife opened the front door yesterday morning mouse shot in between her legs. Little berkeleyer was looking for a winter home. Lucky for it the cat was asleep, so the 11 year old tracked it down and caught it. She (inevitably) wanted to keep it as a pet, but it was released away from the house. I still only give it a 50/50 survival chance as our female cat tends to leave 1-2 headless carcasses a day on the front door step.
I have cats for that sort of thing, and they are really good at their job. I find cricket legs and other assorted insect parts on the floor all the time.
Any insect that survives the cats gets scooped up and put outside, because they deserve it. Except palmetto bugs.
berkeley palmetto bugs.
Luck is only real as a concept to describe how often random or uncontrollable events work for or against your favor. Squishing crickets won't affect it.
Boy oh boy our lil leopard gecko must have the worstest luck in all critterdom.
If killing crickets brought bad luck, they'd never work as fishing bait.
GameboyRMH wrote: Luck is only real as a concept to describe how often random or uncontrollable events work for or against your favor. Squishing crickets won't affect it.
Ahh the beacon of seriousness in an ocean of sarcasm.
poopshovel wrote: ... and got laid this morning.
So the curse is true. You were berkeleyed.
I let the cats get them.
I've recently learned that if I kill the crickets then the scorpions go away.
Without a food source the scorpions go elsewhere or starve.
Killing crickets has become a mission for me. 1) their incessant chirping will drive you batty and 2) I HATE SCORPIONS!
N Sperlo wrote: I let the cats get them.
You obviously have useful cats. My g/f's cats never catch anything... a chipmunk got into the renovation area a few months ago. The cats just looked at it, uninterested, and walked away... apparently they're fed too much...
Just the other day I was thinking about all the noisy crickets we normally get in our garage and basement towards the end of August.
This year we had a drought in Chicago-land and we had no crickets........I did NOT get berkeleyed this morning unless you can reference something my employer did to me.
fasted58 wrote: Am I really berkeleyed?
Yes. I have to deal with a zombie cricket. It's pretty noisy.
I love it when one of our 4 cats catches a bug of some nature. At some point, all 4 join in on the fun that is killing a bug.
Brett_Murphy wrote: Except palmetto bugs.
You guys have funny names for roaches.
We live in a 125 year old farmhouse built by a one armed russian immigrant. It has more holes than a French whore, so this time of year, crickets are a way of life. I don't even hear them anymore, and I've still probably killed 50.
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