[QUOTE=AaronM;132590]Apples?! Apples aren't hideously painful and diabolical, they're tangy and delicious. Do you sprinkle salt and/or diatomaceous earth on said apples? That would be most unpleasant. Are apples poisonous to snails like chocolate is to dogs? I can't picture myself laughing maniacally while setting out apple slices.
Try sprinkling a little pinch of salt directly on the snails. It has pretty much the same effect as if you poured acid on them.
They foam up and melt. Looks like an effect that Spielberg would love. Really gross, but if you're in a maniacal mood there is a perverse satisfaction in watching them dissolve in such a radical fashion. It is rather horrible in a fascinating, disaster, train-wreck, can't take your eyes off of it sort of way. Oooh, gross, coool! if you know what I mean. Somehow I think that you do. You will need to use the poison control methods others have mentioned to solve and control the pests. Salt won't control the snails, but it gives you that bwaah ha ha ha surge of power while you're waiting for the poisons to work.
Enjoy?