Posted on 10/10/2019 9:37:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A Pittsburgh woman who detected a burning odor and heard a strange noise while driving her car looked under the hood and discovered a squirrel had stashed grass and more than 200 walnuts on top of her engine.
Holly Persic said she hadn't looked under the hood of her car since an inspection about a month before she discovered the squirrel's winter stash Monday.
"They were everywhere, under the battery, near the radiator fan," Persic's husband, Chris, told CNN. "The walnuts on the engine block were black and smelt like they were definitely roasting."
The Persics said they had earlier noticed there weren't many walnuts in their yard, despite the nuts starting to fall from trees a few weeks ago, but they were shocked to find out where the missing objects had ended up.
The couple removed the grass and walnuts from the top of the engine and took the car to a mechanic, who removed the protective plate from under the vehicle, allowing dozens more walnuts to rain down.
"Long story short, if you park outside, do yourself a favor and check under the hood every once in awhile," Chris Persic wrote on Facebook.
How did they get in with the hood down?
Poor fellas did all that work for nothing
From under the car. We have the same problem with the tree-rats...............
I had a squirrel stash an apple on top of my engine once. Noticed that it smelled like caramel in my car while I was driving and pulled over to find it there, pretty well cooked.
I once parked in long-term parking at the airport for a week. When I opened the glove box to get the parking ticket, I found a nest of baby mice, made from a shredded travel packet of kleenex.
They’re quick!
Don’t put all your walnuts in one car. Dumb squirrels.
Cooking walnuts? Might be a nice smell.
Unhulled walnuts have a very peppery smell, and the oils in it are like neon green dye. Tree rats are all cuddly-looking and funny, until they start doing what tree rats are wont to do. They eat all my fruit and blueberries every spring, and there’s nothing left for us. Little beggars.
Better than putting blood in the radiator I guess.
Cheech and Chong have cleverly found a way to have a squirrel take the fall for this ...
Yo, just a squirrel looking fo a nut.
Little squirrel trivia
Squirrels lose 80% of the nuts they store
And their heads when they pass my field of vision.
I detest squirrels. We’ve lived in our current house for fourteen years, and I’ve had one single pecan from our tree in the backyard.
I know. One of our neighbors at our old home had a big pecan tree in his yard. The squirrels were like one big conveyor belt along the power lines. Each spring, we’d find pecan seedlings growing in the oddest places. I still have one in a pot on my porch. It’s about a foot tall and if it ever gets big enough, I’m planting it.
BB Gun. Buy one...................
A .177 cal. pellet rifle is better. If you dial it in, it’s a “one shot, one kill” affair most of the time from reasonable distances.
Here, I have to worry about neighbors cars and windows...............
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