In reply to fasted58:
Much respect sir!
In reply to fasted58:
Much respect sir!
Not the engine bay but I found feline after birth in the floor of my Dads 66 Impala. And on the way to class one morning my best friend (who chews) sneezed in his ranger. Then my girlfriend bought a 1980 Camaro yesterday, I've never seen so much rat E36 M3 in my life.
My Thermos broke and leaked a quart of protein shake under the rear floormat of my topless YJ. In was July.
A few days later the smell piqued my curiosity while the swarm of flies should've told me something.
Under the mat was about 700 maggots wriggling around in a thick mass of brown Muscle Milk.
Alllllllmost lost my breakfast that morning.
HappyAndy wrote: More amusing than gross, but once I drove my F150 through many miles of Maryland countryside during lighting bug season. When I have got to my destination the front edge of the hood was glowing from smushed lighting bugs.
There's a bug that lives in Utah that is big and bright yellow on the inside. I have no idea what they look like alive, but they sure make a mess of the car. I swear they show up right as you cross the border - I live about 20 miles away and I've never hit one in CO. We call them Mormon Bugs.
So my coworker is working on a late model MBZ S550 today. Customer mentions he has a rodent problem in his garage and wants the car inspected for nests/damage.
This is what we see when the car is on the hoist-
Apparently some clothing items (boxers and and a sock) were a little too big to make it all the way to the nest. When he dropped the belly pan 3 dead rat babies fell to the floor.
A snake. A live one, under the hood of an 02-ish Mustang GT. Now, at this point I know at least half of you are wondering "what kind of snake?" And the answer is that when a heater hose moves, flicks its tongue, and stares at you, you just sort of assume it's a mutated venomous anaconda.
live rat in the engine bay of an escort at work, lady ran over a raccoon and came in for an oil change with the car still dripping blood.
I don't know what wiring-fed groundhog would taste like, but it's probably not good.
when a heater hose moves, flicks its tongue, and stares at you, you just sort of assume it's a mutated venomous anaconda
Those would be great for the say what segment in the mag.
Will wrote: A snake. A live one, under the hood of an 02-ish Mustang GT. Now, at this point I know at least half of you are wondering "what kind of snake?" And the answer is that when a heater hose moves, flicks its tongue, and stares at you, you just sort of assume it's a mutated venomous anaconda.
I woulda figured that it was a Cobra.
Curmudgeon wrote: I can still hear the 'rrrripppp' sound it made when the shop foreman pulled it apart with pliers to get it out.
Someone on FARK posted a link to a GIF of a snapping turtle eating a mouse. It tore the mouse in half... then the front half tried to swim away...
You can look for it if you want. I'm not gonna.
All I got is two mice I found today in the 7. At least I think two.
Checked the oil and coolant, fired her up and two of those little berkers came from under the engine cover once the engine heated up. Then the stink came out . . . Oh how I do not look forward to cleaning the engine bay up.
Rotted mouse in my 350 SLC coolant overflow tank that it had chewed the top off of. At least, I think it was a mouse, it was quite squishy, and more meat sack surrounding a partial skeleton.
mistanfo wrote: At least, I think it was a mouse, it was quite squishy, and more meat sack surrounding a partial skeleton.
As soon as I'm done barfing, I'll find a humorous image of Bender to annotate your post.
But first, the barfing, punctuated by hurling and the occasional ralph.
When I was a kid, my best friend's dad, who's name was Joe-Bob, ran a salvage/tow yard. Joe-Bob went out one summer night to pick up a wrecked car from the scene of a bad accident. The car was quite mangled up and he knew the wreck involved a fatality. Upon getting the car back to his yard and looking it over with a flash-light, he discovered a severed head in the back seat. Instead of disturbing the head, he called the local coroner. The coroner came right away, picked the head up by the hair and dropped it into some sort of sack with a draw string on it, like it was the most ordinary thing in the world. He said "I've been looking for that," and drove away.
JamesMcD wrote: When I was a kid, my best friend's dad, who's name was Joe-Bob, ran a salvage/tow yard. Joe-Bob went out one summer night to pick up a wrecked car from the scene of a bad accident. The car was quite mangled up and he knew the wreck involved a fatality. Upon getting the car back to his yard and looking it over with a flash-light, he discovered a severed head in the back seat. Instead of disturbing the head, he called the local coroner. The coroner came right away, picked the head up by the hair and dropped it into some sort of sack with a draw string on it, like it was the most ordinary thing in the world. He said "I've been looking for that," and drove away.
That's just berkeleyed up.
No start on a Volvo S80. Timing belt jumped time because of the mouse that had taken a thrill ride over the cam sprokets. No, sorry that's not covered under warranty. Customer complained of a smell in the car. Had more spoiled food in the car than a McDonald's dumpster. The maggots in the heating system were the worst. Station wagon / Mom Mobile stored in a barn for two weeks while the owners went South for a vacation. The headliner was actually moving from all the mice. Car totaled due to wiring damage and insurance company fear of hanta virus.
I just found ANOTHER mouse nest in the Briggs and Stratton of my riding mower. I need a cat!
bgkast wrote: I just found ANOTHER mouse nest in the Briggs and Stratton of my riding mower. I need a cat!
True, that or a rat terrier, those little bastards love to go after live small animals
I was a kid in the early eighties when my mom started the farm truck one morning. A very pregnant momma cat had crawled up into the radiator shroud for a place to sleep.
That old trucks steel radiator fan might as well have been a scalpel. Didn't kill cat instantly, but ALL the stuff that had been inside her abdomen wasn't anymore :-(
i once killed almost an entire flock of sparrows by embedding them into the grille of my '80 Malibu at about 70mph.. every hole in the grill had a dead bird in it, and i found about a dozen of them underneath the radiator when i pulled it out to remove the engine a few weeks later- which was pretty gross, since it was July and they were covered in maggots.
In reply to KyAllroad:
My dad had something similar occur, the cat somehow avoided the fan and got its neck caught in the belt, threw the belt off, the cat actually survived this and recovered,
mndsm wrote: That's just berkeleyed up.
At least he grabbed it by the hair, instead of using a bowling ball grip.
I found a decomposed bird wedged near the radiator on my one ton Ram.
Then a few weeks later I was doing the crankshaft seal, and I found a Snap-On wrench that had been sitting on one of the frame rails for a few years.
Work at a fast oil change place, and I've seen some strange stuff even within the <1 year that I've been there. Dodge Dakota convertible with <30k rolls in, customer tends to get oil changes every 500 miles or so since the car spends most of its time sitting. Open up the air filter housing, filled with 6 or so dead baby mice. Ford F150 Ecoboosts have a large plastic tray underneath that needs to be pulled down to access the drain plug. Dead bird above. Dead bird in the radiator of a Dodge Ram 2500, older Texan just grabs it and throws it away, and then shakes my hand afterwardss. Oh and the best one. Nissan Altima pulls in, and I was working topside at the time. Rookie working downstairs has trouble finding the oil filter, assistant manager goes down to help him. Feels around the general area (passenger side above a plastic shield) and pulls out a live groundhog. That was some interesting security footage.
Knurled wrote:mndsm wrote: That's just berkeleyed up.At least he grabbed it by the hair, instead of using a bowling ball grip.
I'm so going to he for.laughing at that.
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