Cricket watering-cans
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels: a collection of water-cans for fighting crickets, taken at the huge and often freaky fish-and-cricket market in Shanghai. Link
Today in my ongoing series of photos from my travels: a collection of water-cans for fighting crickets, taken at the huge and often freaky fish-and-cricket market in Shanghai. Link
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How exactly are these water cans supposed to fight crickets?
are there any pictures of the fighting crickets? I'm curious about the conditions under which they train. Do they run up museum steps, or are they at the point that they chase chickens? Enquiring minds want to know!
Enquiring minds must know...why water cans instead of squirt guns? C.D. has a nice eye for composition and color.
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Those look an awful lot like old-fashioned oil cans.
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http://www.insects.org/ced3/chinese_crcul.html
I think the cans are for watering the soil in clay pots they raise the crickets in.
And they do mean "fighting crickets" with fighting being an adjective, not a verb. They fight for glory! (cue Eye of the Tiger)
Is this some kind of performance-enhancing drug for the crickets?
The 'can' part of the watering can look like 20 oz soda bottle caps. So I take it these hang upside down and the crickets come up to the nozzle and get sips of water hamster-style in between rounds at the Terror-Drome?
Oooh, I think Iguanoid has it!!
I was not aware that there were such things as fighting crickets. Jiminy!
Is there a word for when you get totally confused by a boing-boing post? When I read the headline, I had an image of special watering cans for cricket pitches, then I saw the actual picture and I thought it was some widget for tampering with cricket balls, then I began reading the copy, and thought they were for filling with insecticide for keeping down cricket infestations, and then I wondered if there was really such a thing as crickets that fight, but decided that was too silly....
I hope Michael Vick reads bOINGbOING in jail, maybe he could set up a cricket fighting ring with his fellow inmates to while away the time.
> #8 posted by iguanoid , January 8, 2008 7:44 AM
LOL!
perhaps by 'fighting crickets' it is meant 'in the fight against crickets'.
when i was a nipper our lawn was infested with the noisy blighters, so we'd take a bottle of soapy water with a spout not dissimilar to the ones shown, poke it down the cricket's hole in the ground and empty it. the crickets would come crawling out a minute later to escape the flooding and they could easily be caught as they came above ground.