Beer in the Garden
That's actually the method my mum uses to get rid of snails and slugs in the garden. Bury a cup (plastic, usually) in the garden and fill it up about an inch or two with beer. The snails and slugs will climb in to drink it, but won't be able to get out, and drown.

Speaking of snails, my family used to have a plastic wading pool in the garden. Rather than swimming in it too often since it rarely gets too hot where I am, we threw a rock in a middle with a murky trench to surround it. It was snail island! We'd throw 'em on there and watch the dirty buggers dry to escape. Many perilously threw themselves into the water rather than eat the leaves way gave them. Then we'd have the fun of drying to grab them out of water so dirty we couldn't see the shallow bottom.

Ah yes, youth.
(Sco smokes crack often., Wed 30 Jul 2008, 11:30, Reply)