Mr. Pincer

If you haven't seen this post, please make note.
Now on to this freaky thing.

One night while gassing up at the station, Mick heard a big thud hit the lights, then looked down to discover

 a Giant Water Bug, better known as a Toe Biter. 

Knowing Liberty's fascination with bugs, Mick collected this critter in a nearby bag and brought it home to live in our Dollar Store bug box until morning.

Peacefully off in dreamland with no threat of wild creatures inhabiting my slumber, Mick woke me up to show me his cool new find. Next he proceeded to place it on my pillow.
"Sick! I squealed in protest, "get that thing away from me, I've got to go back to bed and I don't want nightmares!"

Watching our new pet trying to escape his Plexiglas home while he sat on my pillow gave me the heebie jeebies. "What if it gets out?" I asked as it's pincers pined repetitively at the sliding door.
 "He won't get out", Mick tried to assure me.
"Tape that door... just in case." I demanded.
Contented with an agreement to use tape I fell fast asleep.

With the box taped and lying on the counter, Mick fell asleep with our bug tightly secured. In the middle of the night Mick awoke to a noise, and then saw a flash of something fly across the room toward the television screen that had been left on. Halfway asleep, he remembered Mr. Pincer and jumped into action to find and recapture it. Sure enough, Mr. Pincer was discovered crawling on Liberty. Bugs must know who love them. Mick coerced Mr. Pincer back into the box, this time to be secured with several strips of duct tape. It wasn't until after we had done research to find what type of species Mr. Pincer was, that I was happy to see all of Lib's ten toes unharmed.

Later that day, poor Water Bug was beginning to show signs of distress and dying. Since we didn't have small frogs or fish to feed him, we needed to send him flying freely back to his wetland home. We let him go and all he wanted to do was burrow in the grass. In fear of having my toes bitten unexpectedly while working in the yard, I made Mick send him down steam with the irrigation water.

Good riddance to Mr. Pincer.

Side note: 

Mick's sleep talk dialogue he had with me the evening after letting Mr. Pincer go:

Mick-   "that wasn't there yesterday."
Jen-      "what wasn't?"
Mick-   "That blue box over there."
Jen-      "oh yeah, what's in it?"
Mick-   "Bugs."
Jen-      "Huge water bugs?"
Mick-   "Yeah, big ones!"