That's a great prank, you should try it. I went to school near Austin, Texas and every year there is a HUGE spike in the in the number of crickets on campus, and the surounding area. I'm talking BILLIONS of crickets, you can't walk without steping on them, and they leap/fly on you at night under the streetlights. I lived in a "Quiet" dorm, and there wasn't supposed to be any loud music or yelling, but the floor below us had some guys that played LOUD country music, and were always raising hell in the hallways which echoed up to our floor. The RAs wouldn't do anything about it, and we were always banging on the floor, and complaining. So, in the middle of the night, my buddies and I scooped up a 5 gal bucket of live crickets, and turned them loose in the hallway of that floor then chased/swept them under the 1" gap at the bottom of the doors. Talk about noise! They got behind the furniture, in the closets, in beds, etc... and chirped all the time! It took several days before all the crickets were either removed or dead. It backfired on us though, because some got up onto our floor, and under our door too, and they jerks downstairs just cranked the music even more to drown out the noise of the chirping. Still, it was pretty dam funny.
I'm glad I didn't have to pay $17 / thousand though, I would have been broke. Hmmm... I wonder where these crickets are from? Could it be central Texas? Maybe somebody at my old dorm decided to go into business for himself
