How to Kill a Fly Quickly

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Choose your weapon.

   Get a bottle of Formula 409®, Febreze®, Windex®, or any noxious spray that will not damage the items in your house.
   
   Note:
   Febreze® might provide the added benefit of acting as a fly deterrent.—No self-respecting fly will inhabit an area that smells fresh and clean, so it will vamoose out of there as quick as can be.
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   Step 2: Check to make sure you have enough liquid to do the job (with overkill).

   You may need five or six on-target squirts to accomplish the job, maybe even as many as twenty if you are a gung-ho, Rambo-style fly killer.
   
   Make sure the bottle has enough spray to completely asphyxiate the fly or, failing that, drown the unfortunate victim. , Don't approach it from the front or from the side.
   
   Instead, creep up from behind. (Make sure to wear your "sneakers."
   - They are quietly stealthy and will zip you out of there should your victim turn on you.) , Keep spraying until you're sure the fly is completely dead. , Remember: the deathly chemicals will need to be cleaned up as well. , You can give it a proper burial, but it would be inappropriate to "fly" a flag at half mast (unless you were creating a YouTube video and were really into hyperbole). , Washing your hands is important after killing a fly because flies carry disease and germs. (That is about all they can carry.) You did know that flies are aerodynamically amazing, right? But, you have never heard tale of a fly being able to carry fifteen or twenty times its weight, have you? Nope, but they do carry germs.
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   Step 3: Approach the fly.

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   Step 4: Spray the fly.

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   Step 5: Get a paper towel

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   Step 6: better yet

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   Step 7: a couple of index cards and lift the body from its resting place

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   Step 8: the pool of death.

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   Step 9: Put the dead body outside or in the garbage.

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    Step 10: Wash your hands.

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