[Red Badger]

[dp0622]

How did they get in with the hood down?

Poor fellas did all that work for nothing

[Boogieman]

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.

[ConservativeWarrior]

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!

[Sapwolf]

Don’t put all your walnuts in one car. Dumb squirrels.

Cooking walnuts? Might be a nice smell.

[Gamecock]

Better than putting blood in the radiator I guess.

[ClearCase_guy]

a squirrel had stashed grass and more than 200 walnuts

Cheech and Chong have cleverly found a way to have a squirrel take the fall for this ...

[glorgau]

Yo, just a squirrel looking fo a nut.

[Preachin']

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.

[Larry Lucido]

Maybe Kramer and Newman have been using Jerry's engine compartment to carry groceries again. He'll have to take it back to Tony for repairs.

[nuconvert]

That’s funny. Of course it isn’t MY car.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Walnuts roasting on my engine block....

[Yardstick]

Had a squirrel storing dog food nuggets around my engine once. Definitely some weird smells with that one.

[woodbutcher1963]

I had the same thing happen with acorns in a snowmobile once.
I took it to get tuned up and ready for winter in October.
I brought it home and waited for that first snow which we got over Thanksgiving weekend. I pulled the cover off and glad I opened the cowl(hood). It was full of acorns, including in the fan housing. If I had started it, many would have been sucked into the and the fan and engine block area. It would have been even worse of a mess.

I sucked them all out with the shop vac. From then on, any other time I always put moth balls inside a sleeve of old ladies nylons. I do this with my lawn tractor too under the hood. It keeps the mice out too.

[chrisser]

Early (2013+) Ford Escapes have an air door right in the middle of the firewall. It has a light spring to keep it shut. Chipmunks and mice can push it open to get in, but then they can't get out. Oh the hillarity that ensues. The nuts make a lovely sound when they get caught in the blower fan (and there's a good reason it's called a squirrel cage). We used glue traps to catch them some place where they were easier to dispose of when they died and stunk up the car, only to find that mice are little cannibals when the need arises. I eventually fabricated a wire mesh screen to keep the little suckers out after laying on my back for two hours to get the blower assembly out (you're supposed to remove the entire dash first, but a few mirrors, magnets and extensions can get around that) There's nothing quite like having dead rodents, nuts and bedding rain down on your head.

The little devils also chewed the wiring harness for the rear differential in multiple places, disabling 4wd, traction control, and ABS. I had to splice in a foot of wire to fix it because there were so many chew marks.

[MomwithHope]

We had a whole bunch of dried whole corn in our air filter on the car one year. Probably mice.

[Texas resident]

A man brought in his Isuzu pickup for an oil change. The tech guys opened the hood and were greeted by a hissing possum. Truck has been sitting up for a while.

[usual suspect]

I started my snowmobile a few years back. Took more pulls than usual. It started and ran rough and I soon smelled the odor of roasting nuts. I pulled the head and sitting on top of the pistons were walnuts. The chipmunks crawled up the tailpipe and made a nest in the engine.

[SamAdams76]

I always found it amusing that girls think squirrels are "cute" but will scream and get up on a chair if they see a rat or a mouse.

It's their bushy tails!

Without the bushy tail, a squirrel looks no different than a rat.

[CJ Wolf]

Gonna be a bad winter in the northeast. Haven see any thing like this since the little ice age started ramping up.

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