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".

media_camera A poison maze with rules. It's like the film "Saw" for insects. Picture: Reddit

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.

Originally published as PEST CONTROL: Mess with the minds of unwanted guests