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Hawkmoon
A few years back I was on holiday in Oz (visiting brother who had emigrated there).
We were sitting in his lounge and the lights began coming on dim and flickering (switch off but sound of arcing) - he said they’d been doing that occasionally for a few days.
I said it’s probably a duff switch but I’d have a look at the wires behind just in case - so switched power off and unscrewed/pulled back the switch to find the back box FULL of ants (dozens), not the sissy little black ants you get here but inch long, orange scary bassstards all crawling over each other.
It took my brain about 1 second to process what I was seeing and like a big girl I yelled and jumped back about 6ft into the room (bro thought I’d had a belt off the switch lol).
The ants then began running from the switch in all directions across the white wall (like a scene out of a horror film) - We had to round them up with dustpans and chuck them outside.
After all this I checked the switch and across the back (bridging the 2 terminals) was a mass of congealed and burnt ant remains - once cleaned and buffed up switch worked fine - no more probs.
[FONT="]Probably my scariest creepy crawly moment :whatchutalkingabout[/FONT]
We were sitting in his lounge and the lights began coming on dim and flickering (switch off but sound of arcing) - he said they’d been doing that occasionally for a few days.
I said it’s probably a duff switch but I’d have a look at the wires behind just in case - so switched power off and unscrewed/pulled back the switch to find the back box FULL of ants (dozens), not the sissy little black ants you get here but inch long, orange scary bassstards all crawling over each other.
It took my brain about 1 second to process what I was seeing and like a big girl I yelled and jumped back about 6ft into the room (bro thought I’d had a belt off the switch lol).
The ants then began running from the switch in all directions across the white wall (like a scene out of a horror film) - We had to round them up with dustpans and chuck them outside.
After all this I checked the switch and across the back (bridging the 2 terminals) was a mass of congealed and burnt ant remains - once cleaned and buffed up switch worked fine - no more probs.
[FONT="]Probably my scariest creepy crawly moment :whatchutalkingabout[/FONT]
