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08/25/2007 03:52:56 AM · #1 |
... minding my own business, when out of the corner of my eye I caught a movement on the passenger-side footwell. Now, I had one of those double take moments where I literally looked down, looked back at the road then registered what I had seen..
A mouse. In my car. Looking at me.
Seriously. Now, I know my car isn't really the cleanest place on earth, but it aint THAT messy, granted one wouldnt want to perform surgery in it or anything, but a mouse? in my car?
Anyway, I pulled over, and pulled everything out of my car and hunted down the rodent, eventually I found him (her?) squeezed into the rail that the carseat slides along when adjusting, which was lucky for him I didnt adjust otherwise he would of been rather messed up. He (she?) seemed pretty sleepy and was quite happy for me to pick it up. I placed it on the roof of my car so I could take a few pictures (and put a few crumbs down to keep it interested) and it quite happily sat there gnawing away. Eventually I placed him in a field and drove on..
I am cleaning my car later on this morning.
Anyone else experienced any "Mouse in car" adventures?
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08/25/2007 03:54:28 AM · #2 |
That is soooo cool. I haven't experienced a mouse in my car...but I have heard of snakes in the car.
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08/25/2007 03:57:18 AM · #3 |
Ummm - no.
I did take a car for a road test once while working at a shop, short drive down the street to see how it ran before doing a tune-up on it, all was well, headed back in the stall. Got out, went to open the hood and out from under the hood sprang two kittens, that BOLTED out of the engine compartment and ran for their lives. I was NOT ready for that!
I went home to change my skivvies. |
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08/25/2007 03:57:20 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Judi:
That is soooo cool. I haven't experienced a mouse in my car...but I have heard of snakes in the car. |
Is that like "Snakes on a plane"?
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08/25/2007 03:59:04 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Simms:
Originally posted by Judi:
That is soooo cool. I haven't experienced a mouse in my car...but I have heard of snakes in the car. |
Is that like "Snakes on a plane"? |
Hmmmm...I will plead the fifth!
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08/25/2007 03:59:22 AM · #6 |
I won't elaborate on the dead rodents found in cars, in engine compartments, portions thereof scattered about from the fan belts, oh - I am elaborating. Sorry.
Oh and ask me tomorrow about the bear that will be in my car. Well a bear_music anyway. I'm processing some chili dogs from dinner, just special for the occasion. Well just in case I need it anyway...
Message edited by author 2007-08-25 04:29:47. |
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08/25/2007 04:41:28 AM · #7 |
| Actually, I do have a 'mouse in car' story. Actually a whole family of them. When I was 16, I got my first car. It was an old beat up, rusted out 1970 Delta 88 that had been sitting behind some old guys barn for awhile. He drove it into the dealership my dad worked in, and wanted to trade it in on a new car. Well, they laughed at him, but my dad said he'd give him 25 bucks for it, cause his son was turning 16. Driving it home from the dealership, yeah, caught a flash on the floor, and saw this mouse running across the firewall. I saw several more later, ended up putting mouse traps under the seats, actually got 2 of 'em! Some time later, I had kind of forgotten about the traps, and a friend was in the back seat, digging around for something on the floor, and set a trap off, almost got his fingers, and scared the heck out of him! We all had a good laugh about it :-) |
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08/25/2007 04:59:45 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by Brad:
Ummm - no.
I did take a car for a road test once while working at a shop, short drive down the street to see how it ran before doing a tune-up on it, all was well, headed back in the stall. Got out, went to open the hood and out from under the hood sprang two kittens, that BOLTED out of the engine compartment and ran for their lives. I was NOT ready for that!
I went home to change my skivvies. |
I had a similar incident when I was in GTMO Bay cuba, first time I took the trash out no one told me to make noise as I was going there. I launched the bag to the dumpster and about a dozen cats and bananna rats come flying out of the thing...I think I even screamed lol. |
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08/25/2007 05:10:05 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
Originally posted by Brad:
Ummm - no.
I did take a car for a road test once while working at a shop, short drive down the street to see how it ran before doing a tune-up on it, all was well, headed back in the stall. Got out, went to open the hood and out from under the hood sprang two kittens, that BOLTED out of the engine compartment and ran for their lives. I was NOT ready for that!
I went home to change my skivvies. |
I had a similar incident when I was in GTMO Bay cuba, first time I took the trash out no one told me to make noise as I was going there. I launched the bag to the dumpster and about a dozen cats and bananna rats come flying out of the thing...I think I even screamed lol. |
Is that hill with all the big lizards still out behind the bowling alley? |
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08/25/2007 05:10:45 AM · #10 |
| The best part of the story is that most people would have trapped the mouse and simply put it out in the field. Not everyone would think to put it on the hood of the car and keep it occupied with food long enough to take a picture BEFORE setting it loose in the field. And the folks here understand that latter action completely, which probably makes all of us just a bit weird. |
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08/25/2007 05:12:34 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by taterbug:
Originally posted by sabphoto:
Originally posted by Brad:
Ummm - no.
I did take a car for a road test once while working at a shop, short drive down the street to see how it ran before doing a tune-up on it, all was well, headed back in the stall. Got out, went to open the hood and out from under the hood sprang two kittens, that BOLTED out of the engine compartment and ran for their lives. I was NOT ready for that!
I went home to change my skivvies. |
I had a similar incident when I was in GTMO Bay cuba, first time I took the trash out no one told me to make noise as I was going there. I launched the bag to the dumpster and about a dozen cats and bananna rats come flying out of the thing...I think I even screamed lol. |
Is that hill with all the big lizards still out behind the bowling alley? |
edit to fix it cause I misread your post...not sure I was there back in 94-95.
Message edited by author 2007-08-25 05:15:02. |
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08/25/2007 05:51:55 AM · #12 |
Ha! At least you're not like my mom.. who started screaming when she saw a lizard staring back at her.. I had to swerve the wheel and got her to park.. And then I had to get it out of the car and kill it..
Message edited by author 2007-08-25 06:45:20. |
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08/25/2007 06:12:05 AM · #13 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
Originally posted by taterbug:
Originally posted by sabphoto:
Originally posted by Brad:
Ummm - no.
I did take a car for a road test once while working at a shop, short drive down the street to see how it ran before doing a tune-up on it, all was well, headed back in the stall. Got out, went to open the hood and out from under the hood sprang two kittens, that BOLTED out of the engine compartment and ran for their lives. I was NOT ready for that!
I went home to change my skivvies. |
I had a similar incident when I was in GTMO Bay cuba, first time I took the trash out no one told me to make noise as I was going there. I launched the bag to the dumpster and about a dozen cats and bananna rats come flying out of the thing...I think I even screamed lol. |
Is that hill with all the big lizards still out behind the bowling alley? |
edit to fix it cause I misread your post...not sure I was there back in 94-95. |
I was never stationed there, but went several times for Ref-tra, talk about a month of Hell! :-) Anyways, out back behind the bowling alley was this hill, and for some reason there was always a ton of these big lizards hanging out. In fact, when I was there on the Sierra, had to stand shore patrol duty, and that was one of the spots we had to check on patrol, because guys used to like to hang around there and party with the lizards! |
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08/25/2007 06:27:58 AM · #14 |
| I once came to a screeching halt because there was a HUGE spider (big as my hand) walking on my windscreen. It was only when I was stopped that I realised it was on the outside. Took a while for my heart to slow down. |
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08/25/2007 06:49:26 AM · #15 |
| Imagine the poor mouse's freight finding a SIMMS in his car. |
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08/25/2007 07:17:10 AM · #16 |
| *sigh* and still no pictures posted. *g* |
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08/25/2007 08:14:16 AM · #17 |
| I have this fear of mice...if that happened to me, I probably would have crashed my car and killed people. |
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08/25/2007 08:29:41 AM · #18 |
Aww, cute. It's a baby mouse. I wonder where the rest of his family is. Don't forget to look under the hood by the air vents. That's where my mouse family was.
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08/25/2007 08:49:23 AM · #19 |
Originally posted by Brad:
Ummm - no.
I did take a car for a road test once while working at a shop, short drive down the street to see how it ran before doing a tune-up on it, all was well, headed back in the stall. Got out, went to open the hood and out from under the hood sprang two kittens, that BOLTED out of the engine compartment and ran for their lives. I was NOT ready for that!
I went home to change my skivvies. |
ROFLMAO!!! I can just imagine that event unfolding. :D
As for mice...we've had numerous experiences. In the glovebox of my mother-in-laws car (a whole family of 'em). A nasty dead nest in the air vent of my wifes car (nasty, NASTY, smell - yucko!). Currently chasing a couple of mice around in my truck...trying to find their shelter. :/
It's fun living out in the country. :) |
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08/25/2007 10:20:13 AM · #20 |
Originally posted by Simms:
Anyone else experienced any "Mouse in car" adventures?
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Very strange that the mouse was so tame. I hope he/she is OK. Soooo cute!
My mom once bought an old car that had been stored in a barn. She took me for a ride and when I got in my head hit the headliner and it went "crunch". I looked up and saw that the entire headliner was sagging down and very lumpy. Whatever this was had been packed into the roof of the car and even down the sides of the windshield frame.
What was this stuff, and how did it get in there? I searched for holes, but the headliner was completely sealed. Then my mom, with her Midwestern nonchalance explained that it was just cat food. It was there when she bought it and she hadn't considered getting it out. (That would ruin the headliner).
There were no mice in the car, just the 50 or so lbs. of cat food that they had ferreted away inside the headliner.
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08/25/2007 10:39:33 AM · #21 |
My freshman year of college, I left my car at home. We lived out in the country, and there wasn't room in the north drive (close to the house and paved), so we left my 1989 Plymouth Horizon down in the south drive instead (the remnants of an old circular carriage drive from the Lincoln era). The south drive butts up against a cornfield. The car sat there all year.
I came home for the summer, and something in the car didn't smell right. I finally found the culprit - a nest in the glove box! And the damn things had peed all over my auto registration. I cleaned it out, but had to keep the chewed up, pee stained registration papers in the car for the next few years until it was finally traded in.
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08/25/2007 10:47:53 AM · #22 |
| A friend's child let a hamster loose in her new SUV... it got under the dash and chewed wires. Caused some pretty expensive damage. |
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08/25/2007 10:57:50 AM · #23 |
| ha ha! I used to own a snake, and I went to buy the mice for food, about an hour drive, I was on my way home, and they chewed their way out and somehow one of them got in side my coat and came out out my sleeve, I screamed, pulled to the side and was doing the "GET THEM THE HELL OFF ME DANCE" I'm sure cars passing got a kick out of it..... |
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08/28/2007 09:22:59 AM · #24 |
I wonder if the mouse had been hungry... now we are going to have to start calling SPCA every time you go out and don't leave your windows open a crack! ;)
I am staying at a friend of a friend's house for a few weeks while I finish up a couple of weeks of summer work in Taipei. Second day here, I decided to 'help' them clean up the kitchen (which was rather atrocious).
During the event, a mid-sized rat ran from the living room into the kitchen (which was in major cleaning mode with very little free floorspace) and it went in every direction between our legs (fortunately it didn't go up) and then finally ran out a rather amazingly tiny hole.
that evening we found two more. One of which left the same way, one of which disappeared inside the house.
Against my recommendation, the other guy cemented up the hole where they were leaving after I went to bed (2:00 am is enough), thus leaving the remaining rat no means of escape.
I told him that it was his responsibility to finish cleaning the kitchen (after I had removed everything that was soaked in rat-urine) and we had cleaned almost everything together, including scrubbing the walls right up to the point of using two whole cans of Comet Cleaner... yeesh.
Sadly, he decided that it wasn't really that important to finish cleaning, so two weeks later, I got fed up and decided to finish myself (I had bought some metro shelves to replace the floor cabinets which were no longer usable).
Moving the one sink unit out revealed the final chapter of the rattiken's life... a deflated, decomposed and rather unpleasant pancake of fur and other unfun.
OOh, I love dem rats! The rest of the story is fairly long as well, but I'm still very much looking forward to getting back to my own apartment in 8 days. My students these last two months have learned some english and a large quantity of information about why rats suck. :) |
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