Two thousand mice dropped on Guam by parachute — to kill snakes
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It's not just birds the government is trying to protect. It's also money.
Andersen, like other large industrial complexes on the South Pacific island, is regularly bedeviled by power failures caused when the snakes wriggle their way into electric substations — an average of 80 a year, costing as much as $4 million in annual repair costs and lost productivity, the Interior Department estimated in 2005.
The U.S. has tried lots of ways to eliminate the snakes, which it says likely arrived in an inadequately inspected cargo shipment sometime in the 1950s.
Snake traps, snake-sniffing dogs and snake-hunting inspectors have all helped control the population, but the snakes have proved especially hardy and now infest the entire island. Guam is home to an estimated 2 million of the tiny reptiles, which in some areas reach a density of 13,000 per square mile — more concentrated than even in the Amazonian rainforests, the government says
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Rather than the curious, courteous, sophisticated, little mouse-about-town, he gets turned into a paratrooper... 
And why does this remind me of the WKRP turkey episode?
death from above.