Stanislaw Lem already predicted quite a few things here... read the Star Diaries, although I believe that the matching story "Die Waschmaschinentragödie") isn't included in the English versions. http://derdeutsche.twoday.net/...

No thanks, I'll wait for the iCBM.

The article on heise.de has a link to internal documents of the Foreign Office, which shed a little bit different light on the whole thing.

Reminds me of Monty Python's train table murder sketch

We had a problem with earth wasps, which were settled below some bush.

I finally cut a 10cm hole in a piece of wood, put thin wires in two (perpendicular) layers over it, and then with two elkos and two diodes got about 600V with 1Ws on them ...

The first few wasps got lighted in the middle, and when the others tried to help they got roasted, too.
After a few minutes I turned the power off, shook the board over a bucket until it's clean again, and put it back.

Two hours later the wasps used another hole to take their eggs somewhere else.