August 14, 2003
bleh
worked till 6 patching/cleaning lusers through msblast. (various home systems) went home, saw a small pile of detritus on the floor. (no dead smell) sweeped up small pile of detritus, grabbed dustbroom + sweepy holder dealy. noticed little pile of detritus was wriggling.
... with maggots.
maggots were falling from my ceiling through the cracks in the wood paneling form the dead thing int he attic tha ti cant get to because the accessible attic doesnt connect to the 4inch high place above the kitchen. the kitchen, which was receiving this wonderful deluge of baby maggots.
i duct taped off ceiling and plastic dropped cloth off heater vent (to prevent maggot flies from coming into house) cleaned up. landlord was 0 help.
got a call to patch another user through msblast. spent 1.5hrs on that. whilst wandering around talking on phone (btw 1.5hrs was needed due to microsoft + symantec being inaccesible (whether power outtage or the worm hitting early)) noticed that the only food i really have was the nice plum tart steph made me.
so i wander over and look at it. i only had one slice the other day and it was awesome.
today it was noticeably more wriggly.
the saran wrap wasnt on completely well and it was sitting on the kitchen table below the slot where the maggots were falling. so my tart was maggoted. bleh. im going to go shower the real and imaginary maggots from my hair and try to scrounge some dinner before i pass out.
reminds me of that old gwar song. MAGGOTS ARE FALLING LIKE RAIN
Okay, so maggots are gross, but doable. My dog used to almost-kill things all the time, big things too, that would then crawl as far up under the deck as they could before they would die. We would see the dog all munched up, and then like clock work, three days later the back garden would start to stink. The dead things were always so far up there they was no way to get at them without being creative.
Go up to the atic, the part you can get to, with a long stick, something L shaped if you can manage that, and then use the stick to probe the 4 inch part you cant get to. When you his something, then use the L part at the end to pull it towards you, so you can get rig of it. Make sure you have a trash bag handy, and I would wear a thick mask of some sort, because once you disturb whatever it is thats dead up there, watch out. Oh, and wear gloves. If you don't go up there and get it its just going to get worse. And that smell, it'll come and go for weeks. Hell, take a saw to the cieling if you have to. Those flys (if you let it go that long) can carry whatever disease the nasty little thing died from, and at least you can see the maggots on that tart, flys just visit, and you'd be none the wiser.
Have fun!
"Maggots, P3. You're eating maggots."
it's either rip boards form the ceiling or take a sicrular saw and just kind of willy nilly bust a hole through the side of the house. the attic i can get to doesnt connect to the smaller part. i pulled back my carpet last night before i went to bed and noticed all the maggots that had fallen during the day had wiggled under the carpet. its hard to sleep or do anything when you have phantom maggots wiggling on you.
ewwww...I was going to come visit you this weekend but now I think not
Yeah, I think I would go with the saw. Less mess, and maggots in the house, cause man, thats nasty. Nasty nasty nasty. You should get some toads, great big ones, to patrol the inside of your house. Just station them under where the maggots fall, in some sort of toad pen.
And give your landlord a nice big piece of that tart!
Goodness gracious! I can tell you this: if I were in your shoes (and I would be wearing shoes all the time, with the maggot-phobia I have) I would get a fly bomb, set it in the house, and high-tail it out of there for a day (or however long) before checking in on the maggots. Meanwhile, take photographic evidence. Of everything. Well, except the tart, if you plan on feeding it to your LandLord
I had squirrels running in and out of the eves of my bathroom. I was throwing moth balls into the hole, they were throwing them back out! I didn't want any animals to be trapped in there when we repaired the hole. It happened anyway. Now I have maggots falling from my bathroom ceiling. I paid a man to come and tell me "Just wait and they will eat what's in there, then go away." Is this true? I'm still picking maggots up off the floor.
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