What is the protocol…

…for when you step on a snail but you only half squash it?

Do they have amazing powers of recovery or would it be best to stamp it flat and put it out of its misery?

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  1. Gomaith says:

    Heat up the pan, throw a bit of butter in. Drop the snail in for three minutes at a high heat. Serve with a wedge of soda bread and Kerrygold butter.

  2. ian says:

    You may need to go directly to Peta on this one, Twenty. There must be a ruling on the matter somewhere in their charter.

  3. John says:

    You have to follow its trail back to the family of snails and crush all of them so they don’t have to suffer. And savour that lovely crunching sound as you do so…

  4. peckerhead says:

    Wrap it up in your handkerchief, then wait for an opportune moment to blow your nose noisily and let it fall out. Preferably on a table, while people are eating.

  5. Peadar says:

    pick it up and bring it to the vet.
    Can you imagine the look on the vets face?

  6. size ten says:

    Slime, Slime, Slime, and more fucking Slime, so get a grip and VOTE FF!!!

  7. Loco Lobo says:

    Hmmm! That one’s food for thought!

  8. kav says:

    I tend to go for the no-nonsense approach and finish the job. If some enormous, clumsy giant trod on me and left me crushed from the chest down, wheezing my last through perforated lungs, the least he could do would be put me out of my misery quickly.

  9. enidd says:

    aren’t they one of those hermaphrodite things? so cut the dead gender off and the other will survive. sad, lonely, always looking for its soul mate, but alive.

  10. porridge says:

    wouldn’t really be a problem with this snail. having your foot simultaneously squashed flat and charboiled might be an issue though

    http://muton.blogspot.com/2006/01/armoured-snail.html

  11. scorchio says:

    pour salt on it

  12. scrumpleton says:

    This is a serious matter. The correct protocol is as follows:

    1. Stop immediately, turn, bow.
    2. Say ‘Gomen Nasai’
    3. Present quality business card with both hands, writing faced toward the…

    Sorry. My mistake. This is for when you step on a yakuza’s penis but only half squash it.

  13. If the Snail Protocol is ever breached, there would be no warning, just a gooey explosion from a bedsitter…The unthinkable has just begun…

  14. Fat Sparrow says:

    I was going to comment, but I’m still laughing too hard from the previous comments….

  15. Dogzbollix says:

    I’m thinking there are some obscene things you could do with a soggy invertebrate of that size, and nothing involving salt, unless you’re truly, truly sick…..

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/447827/the_biggest_snail_i_have_ever_seen/

  16. sniffer says:

    I suppose it depends if you’re wearing shoes or not. I hate it when you stand on a snail in bare feet. Slugs are worse.
    Then there’re leeches… The worst is when you find one on your girlfriend’s body in the middle of the night.

  17. snookertony says:

    we normally collect the casulties and feed them to the
    bluetongues off a small tinfoil plate…

  18. old knudsen says:

    Snails just like puppies and kittens scream when you put them into a pot of boiling water.

    Never turn yer back on a wounded snail.

  19. Twenty Major says:

    What are bluetongues?

  20. What you do depends on your age. And species.

  21. OldPecker says:

    Bluetongues are lizards
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-tongued_lizard

  22. O'Reilly says:

    What you’ve created there Twenty is a homeless snail.
    Another burden on the state!

  23. Yippee says:

    Seek out the rest, then pour salt on them all, the bastards, and watch them squirm.

    They also make a very satisfying, if repulsive, fizzing noise!

  24. The Fat Lady says:

    I think it’s nice to finish the job, just in case. The best thing is, when there’s a dead snail, all the other snails have a feast. Well, the best thing for the other snails, I guess.

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