Pest Control Tank - "You Can't Fix Stupid" Contest Winner!
Posted by Andrew Greess on Jul 31, 2019
The results are in!
Our contest to caption this photo of a dopey pest control tech stuck in a pest control tank.
Click photo to read short article.
The contest was a huge success. We received hundreds of entries. It was difficult to select the best caption.
Instead of 1 winner I chose 3.
Here are the winners:
Clever Category:
“…but that was my favorite pen…”
- Priscilla Brooke Wilson
Sarcastic Category:
And runner up in this year’s Darwin Awards Service Category is…
- Douglas Seemann
Most committed Category (5 entries):
1. Things I wouldn't do for a Klondike bar
2. Silly Larry takes off his shoes and then goes in head first
3. "Dedication, how to get your employees to do whatever it takes to save a nickel" AKA I dropped a nickel in the tank
4. the next time you forget to bring coffee and donuts......
5. life lesson, never assume "the tank said Clearwater, I just assumed"
- Pete Dickerson
For a list of all the submitted captions, please scroll down.
On a related note, for tips on how to clean out your pest control equipment tank, please check out our prior blog post here: https://www.qspray.com/blog/clean-it-out-to-prevent-problems/
Here are the submissions. Thanks to all who played along. I hope it was fun.
Pest Control Expert finally gest the alpha male rat and needs the Clearwater FD to assist him
- Steven Wolfe
Chasing Pests
- -Carey Chaplic
PMP Portapotty gone wrong
- -Vladamir Milosavljevic
On this episode of “Tanked”
- -Ryan S
“…but that was my favorite pen…”
- Priscilla Brooke Wilson
The lengths we go to seal a mouse hole
- -Steve Gibbens
Head over heals for pest control
- -Bryan Nichols
Talk of putting your nose into inspections
- -Raja Mahendran
Pest inspection gone wrong
- -Michael Cancel
Worker gets “tanked” on the job
- -Eric Van Holten
Dedication “if it bugs you it bugs me” will go over and beyond to fix your pest problem.
- -Dakota Dotson
The firefighter at the feet is saying “can someone please get me my breathing apparatus!”
- -Jim England
Trying to Mix Pesticide with Water, PMP becomes AGITATED and Stuck
- -Scott Adams
I found the B&G tip
- -Carlos Vargas
Wait, I almost have my pen
Neil Ritokoski
Man claims giant cockroach pushes him into his own tank of pesticides
- -Steven Wolfe
Pest Control employee really gets into his work
- -Robert Weimer
Clearwater FD saves yet another Pest control man from drowning in his own tank of pesticides
- -Steven Wolfe
Water Baby
- Kieran Lambert
Man leaps headfirst into his work!
- Bruce Jersey
Tanks for the Memories
- Bill Carolan
Tanks Away
- Jim Harmon
Tanks A lot
- Timothy Smith
New version of personal bug repellent in the early stages of testing and application, may need to head back to the drawing board...
- David Collins
PCO must have been tanked! He thought he was in Clearwater
- Tom Koenigs
Extreme Heat Warning: Exterminator goes for dip in tank sprayer to avoid record setting heat
- Clay Francis
1. Things I wouldn't do for a Klondike bar
2. Silly Larry takes off his shoes and then goes in head first
3. "Dedication, how to get your employees to do whatever it takes to save a nickel" AKA I dropped a nickel in the tank
4. the next time you forget to bring coffee and donuts......
5. life lesson, never assume "the tank said Clearwater, I just assumed"
- Pete Dickerson
I saw a spider
- Ben Williams
The last thing I heard: I have tacos down here
- John Michael Flores
Hey Siri, Call 911
- Cody Sandhoff
Go to any lengths to get your bugs
- David Huff
We go to extreme depths to serve you
- Daniel Nabors
1. I found his other half
2. Always jump in feet first sir
- AJ Avots
PCO hides in tank to avoid extra work, gets stuck inside
- Michael Prater
PCO gets tanked early in the day saving a spider
- Steve Totten
My favorite sunglasses dropped in the tank
- Anthony Pizzuto
Losing a tank is an expensive lesson
- Don Termite
And runner up in this year’s Darwin Awards Service Category is…
- Douglas Seemann
I was just trying to retrieve my phone, no texting while mixing
- Phil Sloderbeck
I was at the wrong place at the wrong time
- Dave Reyburn
And this is the brilliant person servicing your home for $45
- Lisa Myers-Botts
Doing a dip in the big top
- Randy Bishop
I’m going to get the inside of this tank clean even if it kills me
- Perry DuBose
Nope, no bugs in here
- Chris Cummings
Local pest control worker eats one too many hamburgers on lunch and gets stuck in the spray tank
- Justin Sipple
1. Help, and I promise this won’t happen again
2. Welp, no gators or snakes in here!
- Brian Spicer
Dave really got into his work in pest control
- Anita Pineda Schwartz
You just can’t fix stupid
- Edward F Schwartz
Karma – using bifenthrin instead of the termidor as promised for the termite treatment
- Tim McMillen
When you try to hide from the PPE police
- Justin Atwell
1. Hidden dangers of triple rinsing!
2. The final rinse!
- Jerry Stockton
Ha ha, he is so ticklish!
- James Richard Stewart
Bobbing for bedbugs!!!!
- Craig Bloom
He really has his head in the game
Agitator doing its job
- Robert McCurry’s
Local Man Promoted To “Challenging Crawl/Attic” Specialist
He really goes into his job head first, wow
Pest controller confesses to how he doesn't take bugs home with him
Maybe the vat of death wasn't the best place to hide from the cops
"not my fault I'm not going to make it to work Monday boss. It was your bright idea to have me clean the truck"
Failed at his Crack & Crevice training
Local pest man finds new cure for hand foot and mouth disease
- Tyler Nelson
Local "Pest Pro" dives in as heat wave strikes
- Eddie Peuker
Severe bedbug infestation has local pest pro diving in tank to escape infestation, becomes lodged in tank
- Stephen DeMeule
Meanwhile in the World of Economics, "Pest Pros Find an Extra 5% Profit by Siphoning Chemical Out the Bottom of Their Tanks”, off set they are really Head over Heels about this idea
- Travis Aggson
Looking for love in all the wrong places...
- Michael James Burks
Pest Control Worker’s Got More In The Tank
- Jeff Davenport
PC tech gets stuck trying to save a spider.
- Steve Totten
When it's so hot during your route, you'll do anything to cool off.
- Kasey Smith
I never realized I could just shat in my tank!
- Bryant Santsaver
Thus PCO really dives into his work
Well, that’s one way to treat yourself for ticks...
- Tony Carrell
When your using the “good stuff” you have to get every last drop
- Ronnie Eroh
Spray tech won’t help wife clean house, but will scrub the crap outta his tank, then gets stuck! Wife said, Instant Karma!
- James McSpedon Jr.
He was born a bug guy: First time ever capturing the birth of an exterminator!
- Brent Towle
Medical evaluations are underway as a local Pest control Technician claims “He was forced into tank by bugs”
- Jacob O'Neal
My gloves fell off
- Andrew Kowal
But I dropped my 1000 Lumen Rechargeable Flashlight and had to go in an get it!
- Fred Huffman
PPE...I don’t need no stinking PPE
Florida man is at it again
- Chris Cole
He really gets into his job
- Dan Scott
Diving in head first on the job....
- Richard Riley
Must have lost a shoe in the tank
- Andrew Jones
Cleaning the tank must have knocked his socks off
- JustinWhitmer
Me after a really infested bed bug job
- Joshua F Phillips
Pest control professional said he’d rather die than hear his wife nag anymore
- Joshua F Phillips
When you have an ant job and you have no more non repellents
- Joshua F Phillips
Ok ok here’s the best caption seriously. *when customers ask if your products are safe *me: look you could swim around in them, it’s so safe!
- Joshua F Phillips
No Maam, I do not see an engagement in there.
- Ron Jennings
Florida man dives head-first into his work. Told emergency personnel, “I’m new to this so I’m just trying to get my feet wet, but got a little turned around.”
- Bryant James Magnus
Exterminator gets stuck. Tank top prevents extrication
- Jack Waterway
Pest technician takes “diving in,” to his job too seriously
- Andrew Flores Joaquin
Pest technician says he can’t take it anymore, “his customers really bug him”
- Joshua F Phillips
Just a little farther
- Jason Pierce
Almost got it!
- Gene Payne
Anything you can do; I can do better! I’m stuck- scratch that
That's where the JD9 tip went!! And the Boss said I lost it again!! Told ya I just misplaced it!!! Said No Spray Tech Ever!
- James McSpedon Jr.
My neck .... my back .... my ass stuck in this tank
- Chris Hughes
Agitator doing its job
- Robert McCurry
Bobbing for bedbugs!!!!
- Craig Bloom
the classic Palmolive dish soap commercial with Madge, “Of course, it’s mild. You’re soaking in it!”
- Lucie Woolery
He's a new tech, still wet behind the ears.
- Ian Horridge
I was nearby; thought I heard oh F_ _k , maybe he said I’m stuck.
- Patrick McDonald
I am a visual learner, just seeing where the clearwater went
- Greg Hannon
But I dropped my flashlight!
- Dawn Massi
Breaking news: Pest specialist stuck in tank after trying to cool off from heat, more at 10
- Jack Glick
Dunk tank
- Todd Stubbert
"Last thing I heard”
- John Michael Flores
Hope his snorkel was nitrile
- Ricky Elmore
Local pest control worker tries to seek refuge after spider crawled up his leg
- Chaz Brantley
It’s not labeled for that...
Yeah, the stuff is safe, I went swimming in it last week
- Richard D Smith
Head-over-heals for IPM
- Don Jones
This is why you hire techs that are smaller than you
- Toby Chriscoe
Toby Chriscoe; “I actually was told that by a supervisor back in my ship yard days”