DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
Crews place more traps, each with a live mouse, at Hickam airfield to help safeguard Hawaii form any brown tree snakes. This is a trap attached to a fence. The mouse can be seen inside. A snake will enter at either end through the hole in a funnel and be trapped (in a separate small container so it can’t get at the mouse). Food and water will be changed ever other day in the trap. The concern are flights arriving from Guam, that may have brown tree snakes inside.
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There’s something downright creepy about the stainless-steel traps being deployed at Hickam, a point of entry to Hawaii for the destructive brown tree snakes that stow away on cargo planes.
A live mouse is placed tantalizingly in one part of the trap to lure the snake, which slithers in for a tasty meal only to find the rodent is kept away in a separate part. Meanwhile, the poor mouse frets about being some snake’s lunch, only to find its life is spared. Presumably, it lives to lure again, in another trap. A bit mean, maybe, but if it works … good riddance, snake. Eeeww.
Living in Kakaako can be expensive, or impossible
Just to put things in perspective: The sale of a $22 million penthouse at Park Lane broke records, but only in Hawaii. Truth be told, the ultra-posh condo with a spectacular Ala Moana oceanfront view doesn’t even crack the Top 10 list of world’s priciest pads. Of course, we’ll admit that it’s a pretty stunning price tag. The place has an unobstructed ocean vista (albeit a view fronting a public beach), and a ton of elite touches.
And, just for contrast: A short distance away, homeless encampments, also with oceanfront views, have forced the closure of Kakaako Waterfront Park. How’s that for perspective?