Lassoing A Fly!

United States
September 29, 2015 10:36am CST
A few years ago my family got together for a barbecue. I can’t remember if it was a holiday but I know it was in the summer. Anyways, my sister and sister-in-law were sitting and talking and all of a sudden I see my sister holding onto a fly and my sister-in-law had a piece of long hair. Well she was tying that hair around the fly’s head and the next thing I know they let go of the fly and held onto the hair and that fly was flying! He flew near my brother and he kind’a backed up like some beast were after him and we laughed hysterically. We were all laughing so hard. Then others took turns holding the hair as the fly flew. Eventually they let him go and he flew away with the hair attached, LOL. What a wonderful time we had. Get together's are not very often but we have a ball when we do get together and there's usually a lot of laughter.
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topffer
@topffer (42155)
• France
29 Sep 15
I have never seen something like this. You need a cowboy to catch a fly with a lasso. It was certainly funny
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topffer
@topffer (42155)
• France
30 Sep 15
@Jlyn10 If somebody can lasso a fly with a whip, it can be only you.
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Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
1 Oct 15
@topffer You need to practice your whipping with the fly instead of doing it on @thesids or @Unforgettable_Raja and I think you can do better than me.
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Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
30 Sep 15
Can we try it with our whip?
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (148731)
• Roseburg, Oregon
29 Sep 15
The poor fly was all confuised when he got away.
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Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
29 Sep 15
I would imagine that poor fly was confused! LOL
AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
29 Sep 15
I think the hardest part would be catching the fly in the first place. I can't imagine he survived long with a long hair attached to him.
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Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
29 Sep 15
I imagine him getting tangled up in a tree or some other place. LOL I'm not sure how they caught him. My attention was not drawn to what they were doing until I saw what looked like an operation going on. Their heads were close together and all eyes were on the fly. LOL
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Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
30 Sep 15
I wouldn't even dare to hold the fly.
Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
@Jlyn10 Yeah after all they are a maggot ugh. Certainly not something I would do. LOL
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theSids
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
1 Oct 15
As kids, I did see some of my friends at school doing something similar with dragon flies. They would catch one and tie a thread on its long body. It was supposedly fun to them, but I felt bad about the fly because it was always harmless.
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theSids
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
1 Oct 15
@Jlyn10 I will never be able to catch the house flies at least
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Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
1 Oct 15
@thesids You're a ghost, I'm sure you can.
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Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
1 Oct 15
So is the dragonfly ... harmless. The thing is that a dragonfly is so much bigger than a fly and it's easier to tie a thread on its long body but a fly? That is soooo not easy and moreover, they were using a strand of hair to tie it.
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Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
30 Sep 15
I'm just wondering how they managed to tie the hair around the fly. I mean it's so tiny.
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Jlyn
@Jlyn10 (11965)
• Malaysia
1 Oct 15
@Butchcass4 Yes, I can just imagine how funny it was.
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Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
I don't know how but I know they did and it was hilarious to watch them and then watching the fly fly while they held onto the piece of hair was even more hilarious
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Shyamala annavarapu
@Shyamalaa (525)
• Udaipur, India
29 Sep 15
I think the fly was just humoring you! I thought flies are too fast and sly to put themselves in such a situation!
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Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
Well this one wasn't fast enough his goose was cooked LOL
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Shyamala annavarapu
@Shyamalaa (525)
• Udaipur, India
30 Sep 15
Mohd. Irfan Alam
@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
29 Sep 15
Would have looked great on a camera.
Mohd. Irfan Alam
@gregario888 (1276)
• Aurangabad, India
29 Sep 15
@Butchcass4 It surely would have been, a sort of, first of firsts.
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Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
29 Sep 15
Yes I wished I had gotten it on video. I could have sent it to Funniest Home Video's probably would have won. Who's ever heard of lassoing a fly?
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502364)
• Italy
30 Sep 15
I have seen this in a movie, but it's not something I would ever do. Poor fly.
Anna
@LadyDuck (502364)
• Italy
30 Sep 15
@Butchcass4 Yes, I remember very well "Midnight in the garden of good and evil". there was a crazy man who had four flies attached to his hat.
Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
@LadyDuck Thank you for that information. Was it a good movie?
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Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
Do you know which movie it was in?
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Sharon
@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
30 Sep 15
We never played games like that. I imagine it was hard to capture and lasso the fly.
Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
Yes it wasn't an easy task as they worked at it for some time LOL
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Sharon
@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
2 Oct 15
@Butchcass4 I can only imagine. I wouldn't have had the patience.
Marie
@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
3 Oct 15
Wow, that seems a bit tricky to lasso a fly.
maria peralta
@kayshope (1670)
• El Paso, Texas
30 Sep 15
poor fly was so confused.
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peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
30 Sep 15
That fly got his do you think he learned anything
Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
I am sure he must have learned something LOL
Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
@softbabe44 LOL yep he didn't know how to get help, poor creature.
peggy baker
@softbabe44 (5815)
• Vancouver, Washington
30 Sep 15
@Butchcass4 he didn't know where to go he needed help
Kimberley
@mom210 (9170)
• United States
29 Sep 15
Just goes to show they can get through almost anything and live, well except a good fly swatter.
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Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
30 Sep 15
LOL
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Ria Roy
@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
29 Sep 15
This really is one of the most unusual stories I've heard. I didn't even know a fly can be lassoed. Kudos.
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Kimberly Cass
@Butchcass4 (5895)
• United States
29 Sep 15
I can still see it in my mind and it makes me chuckle. I can't believe they pulled it off. LOL
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Ria Roy
@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
29 Sep 15
@Butchcass4 haha yeah, i can't believe it either!
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
2 Oct 15
quite an accomplishment to tie the knot so small without crushing the fly