In French DIY supermarkets they sell a wonderful mole destruction kit. It consists of a spike, containing a battery and a trigger switch, operated by a long, adjustable plunger arm.
The kit also contains a number of small explosive charges, that look like little red plastic bangers, with electrically operated detonators.
To use the device, one inserts one of the charges a foot or so inside the tunnel at a mole hill. The spiked detonator is then pushed into the soil and arranged so that the plunger switch rod is poking into the hole a few inches. The detonator wires from the charge are then connected and the unit armed, by flicking the safety switch on.
Some time later, Mr Mole, whilst taking his nightly constitutional, crawls along his burrow, over the charge, to get a breath of fresh night air. His nose sniffs around, contacts the plunger switch and the charge blows his bl**dy a*se off...................
Only in France could such a patently dangerous, but no doubt hugely entertaining, form of mole destruction be on open sale.
VP