I just invented a good way to kill ticks on dirty boots/shoes

[stormkroe]

Have you tried spin-kicking them? Works for me, and since they're already on your boots you can't hardly miss.

 

[sportage]

Going by the replies, I guess there goes that million dollar idea.
Hope it wasn't trademarked.

I seldom have to deal with ticks, but for a specific tick especially one on flesh, a dab of that NEW SKIN liquid bandage does the trick.
Dead tick. Peal off. Poor little sucker.

 

[Rakehellion]

1. For some reason i've always killed ticks with fire. Using a regular bic lighter, i just pretty much burn the tick until it pops and dies.

But its head is still stuck under your skin.

 

[Capt Caveman]

this made me think of two things.


1. For some reason i've always killed ticks with fire. Using a regular bic lighter, i just pretty much burn the tick until it pops and dies.

2. I wonder if Karma is real. I bet ticks come back as something awesome, top of the creation list, whatever that may be, an eagle, or i guess human... at least that we know of. But it seems like ticks just get the most ridiculously overdone deaths of anything out there, usually involving heat/and or fire....

I hope you do this after you've properly removed it from your body. If it's still engorged, you'll just make it regurgitate back into you.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That would only really work on a hot sunny day though. I would just use a blow torch. A blow torch works on any day!

 

[zanejohnson]

I hope you do this after you've properly removed it from your body. If it's still engorged, you'll just make it regurgitate back into you.

yes, after the tick has been removed, and any offending body parts removed....

find a flat surface, or use tweezers, and roast that sob. this is usually after pulling them off of animals, usually not ticks i find on myself.. though i have found ticks on myself.

 

[NoTine42]

That would only really work on a hot sunny day though. I would just use a blow torch. A blow torch works on any day!

Genius, just dress in Nomex like a race car driver, and have a friend clean off the ticks with a blow torch!

 

[MongGrel]

But its head is still stuck under your skin.

Pretty much this.

An old time thing was to paint the tail end of the tick sticking out with nail polish, the sucker can't breath then and will pull it's head out.

The head will still be embedded in you if you roast them.

Seems the CDC disagrees though, haven't had a tick in a long time myself.

http://www.cdc.gov/ticks/removing_a_tick.html

Digging around for those mouth parts later will be great fun also though

 

[Leyawiin]

I don't know about other places, but I only had two in my life while living in the Sierra Nevada and that was because we let our cats roam around outside and then come in the house.

 

[Scarpozzi]

You can also get some charcoal lighter fluid and spray your clothes with them liberally. Throw them in a trashcan and light them on fire. You see, the heat will kill the ticks. To be safe, you should shower afterward...

 

[DrPizza]

I've been places like that. Have to duct tape the tops of my boots, and tape holes to keep ticks out. One place was so bad, anything you dropped on the ground would have several ticks walking on it in less than a minute. I fuckin' hate ticks...

At one point, I was planning on heading out to the downstate area of NY for bow hunting. There were a few places on Long Island where my buddies were able to hunt. Tons of deer, because the area is filled with idiots who, "they keep eating all my plants, do something!" "Oh, but don't kill them, maybe you can give them birth control pills so they don't reproduce." And, as a result, all of my friends have encountered tons of ticks in the brush where they hunt, and tons of ticks on those deer. With a much higher likelihood of Lyme's disease in that area, screw that. I'll stick to hunting western & central NY.