me with a jar: "Mom, I collected 15 stinkbugs hanging around upstairs office."

mom: "Don't you dare put them outside they eat the garden. Flush them."

me: "But they don't even know what they did wrong! They just wanted to be warm! It's Christmas!"

uncle: "They are invasive you know."

me: "Oh. Well, I'll take them home as a treat for the ants."

everyone: "Nooo! That's worse than drowning!"

God, mom. Not ALIVE. I froze them first.