October 9, 2025

That's So Ray-Ben

Glue Traps

Hello Team! Today I have a thought experiment for you all. Imagine this:

You are awoken in the middle of the night. A soft thump echoes through your house, stirring you from your slumber. Half awake and barely lucid you stumble from your bed ready to confront whatever intruder or demon has roused you. Somewhere between adrenaline and lucid dreaming, you know you can do what needs to be done to protect yourself and your loved ones (if you have loved ones).

You creep down the hallway, eyes half open, hands balled into tight fists. One foot in front of the other, you slowly move forward. Suddenly, and without warning, you step onto something soft. Soft, sticky, cold.

Presumably this is not the floor you are familiar with in your home.

As you move to recoil, your foot stays still. It's stuck! Stuck in some sort of trap!

But not just any trap. This is a 8x10 human glue trap (think mouse glue trap, but human sized). The stench floods your brain as you finally wake up enough to realize your predicament.

Looking around, you see nothing that can aid you. No friends, no family. You have been caught by the human glue trap.

What do you do?

As for myself, I learned today that I would likely get caught and die. This revelation came at great personal cost and has made me rethink my aversion to mice entirely. I have attached an image of me stuck in a glue trap to help illustrate this point.

Thanks, Ben

Ben in a glue trap

- Ben