WELL this is one way to screw with the minds of the pests that invade your house.

Sick of dealing with the slugs invading his house, a somewhat demented Reddit user created an obstacle course for the slippery squatters.

The anonymous user created a maze out of slug poison with a couple of ground rules.

1. "Any slug that touches the salt walls will most likely die a fiery death".

2. "The gauntlet will increase in difficulty with each successful slug".

There was a reprieve, however. The user wrote that any slug to make it through the maze and lived to tell would "be rewarded with a hearty amount of jam and entry to the house".

That's just cruel and unusual.

The anonymous poster isn't the first to try this death maze. The stunt may have been an homage to a similar image that first surfaced on the web in 2007.