Tylenol Packed Mice Help Control Snake Population

In this story, The brown tree snake has become a problem in the pacific island of Guam. The island has become over populated  with these snakes. They have wiped out the island's native population of forest birds. They have been getting tangled up in electrical wires and causing power outages throughout the island, creating an expensive repair bill. The island has several different traps for the snakes but they have been failing to control the snake population so the U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun to drop Tylenol-packed mice  from an airplane to try and control the snakes. Supposedly, Tylenol is deadly to the snakes.



Wow! Who knew that Tylenol could be so deadly. I like Tylenol. It eases all my pain! It's kind of sicknening that they are stuffing dead mice with Tylenol and then throwing them out a plane into the tree tops of the forest. Although, that would defanitely be a good way to get a snake to want to eat the poisonious Tylenol-stuffed rodents. On the other hand, it's kind of cool to think that something so simple as Tylenol can control a hazardous population of snakes. Everybody uses Tylenol! Its not hard to get! If you don't use Tylenol then you probably use Ibuprofen or some other sort of pain reliever. And yet, thats all it's going to take to solve the snake problem in Guam! I hope the guy who is in charge of dumping the mice out of the plane gets a pair of gloves to wear. Rodents carry diseases. yucky! I don't like snakes either. If, I were a resident in Guam I would probably want the government to control the population to. Not to mention, they have been racking up a big bill in their villages. I'll have to look up what a brown tree snake is. I have no idea if the snake is poisonous or not. Does anyone know?