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Stealing food from bullet ants.
We'd find bullet ant nests (often by their distinctive smell, as they were poorly marked) and wait for foragers returning from the canopy. Then we'd grab an ant with forceps, pull the prey from between its mandibles and deposit it in a scintillation vial. If it was carrying a nectar droplet, we would collect that in a capillary tube, all while the ant is stridulating and struggling and flicking its stinger out. After collecting the sample, we'd drop the ant near the entrance to its nest and watch it stomp off (yes, stomp). And we would do all this while trying (occasionally unsuccessfully) to avoid being stung.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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