Of course, these stories do not always end so well, I'm afraid. A friend of mine heard a thud and a splat when starting his truck one morning about fifteen years ago....
"A friend of mine heard a thud and a splat when starting his truck one morning about fifteen years ago...."
I have a friend who wondered how a sneaker ended up in the dryer. Just kept tumbling and thumping with the rest of the clothes. At the end of the cycle she discovered it wasn't a sneaker after all...
I once killed an entire family of kittens over the course of several weeks in this manner. Of course, it wasn't on purpose, and dealing with a kitten caught in a serpentine belt is not in the slightest bit fun, so now I make sure to honk the horn or bang on the hood before firing the truck up.