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Anonymous
Trying to pop them is a bad, bad idea. You just end up squeezing some of the blood back under your skin, because the bug certainly isn't letting go. This increases the risk of getting something nasty like Lyme disease quite a bit, I've heard.
Of course if you're not in an area with disease-carrying ticks, you're likely just fine...
Also, scraping them off with a knife isn't going to work (as the jaws will be left behind, as will the bug's thorax). Neither will choking them with butter (the bug starts vomiting before moving away -- that's quite bad). There's special tick pincers one can use to get them off your (and your pets') skin; they somehow manage to coax the bug into releasing its jaws before lifting it off.
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