Swede in new slimy slug slaughter: 27,000 killed

An elderly man armed with an ice-scraper in western Sweden has taken extreme measures after Spanish "killer" slugs took over his café. 76-year-old Sven Lagergren has had enough of the "killer slugs" (mördersniglar) that have taken over the gardens of his café, Gula Huset, in Brålanda, north of Gothenburg. “They’ve taken over, it's absolute madness! I’ve killed almost 28,000 this summer,” he told The Local. Using a long handled ice-scraper with a 10 centimetre wide blade, the 76-year-old firmly slices the slugs in half with one quick jab. “I don’t miss,” he said, adding that the slugs die immediately. The Spanish slug, or Arion lusitanicus as it is formally known, is foreign to traditional Swedish fauna but has been ravaging gardens across the country since first being seen in 1975.

http://www.thelocal.se/42050/20120716/