Scientist Build A Human Mousetrap

In a wild and slightly unsettling experiment, the team from MythBusters set out to answer a bizarre question: could a giant glue-trap mousetrap actually stop a human? The video shows them scaling up the sticky pad to human size and carefully testing it—only to discover that once a person stepped onto it, escape was nearly impossible without help. What starts as a curious myth quickly turns into a surprisingly effective (and hilarious) demonstration of just how powerful those adhesive traps can be when taken to the extreme.

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MythBusters once built a human-sized mousetrap to test whether it could catch a person—and it worked. pic.twitter.com/16sPy73NRJ

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