Daily Mail carried a full page story about it yesterday (Friday)...:-)
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As did The Sun.
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A rare case of dealership technicians finding the fault at the first time of asking.....:-)
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I regularly buy 25kg sacks of peanuts. We get a lot of birds. Lately they've acquired a label "may contain nut products". I do hope so.
John
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Huts, old railway huts.
The cavalry take them and they cover them in chocolate.
Don't know what made me think of that.
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I'd agree with the article that it's almost certainly mice.
I found one of my wellies in the garage half full of bird nuts recently, and several smaller piles of nuts in odd dry dark places well off the ground - including two lots under the bonnet of our Morris 1000 - while searching for the nest.
It's not my day job, but I think the car owners need to find the nest in the garage, the other caches of nuts, and put their own store of bird nuts to a more secure place.
They may need a baited trap too.
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It might well be mice - squirrelling their nuts away...
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Nothing friendly about a squirrel - especially the grey imports !
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This might be nuts, but I once had a mouse nest in an air filter of a van. Exactly the same symptons of lack of engine power, followed by a smirking garage. I still chuckle about it now.
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Deviating slightly, but still on the theme of car invasions by critters, I do remember an instance Down Under where a swarm of bees had to be expertly removed from a car's steering wheel. And another, from a car's front bumper. Cars obviously present an attractive environment.
Oz (as was)
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What I hate is when there is a snake on the road. You can't really swerve so you try to go over him. Then you have to check in your rear view mirror. Is he still on the road? If not where is he? Dare you open the bonnet to check? What if he comes out the air vents or some other nook or cranny? There are lots of stories of people who went over snakes and they ended up under the bonnet and fighting mad!
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"What I hate is when there is a snake on the road. You can't really swerve so you try to go over him."
I read of an experience in South Africa where a chap tried to bridge a Mamba without hitting it, and it ended up wrapped around his back axle, and quite cross too!
I was carrying a dead snake in a plastic bag on the passenger seat of my 1952 Morris Minor, (very scruffy), when I stopped to offer a lift to a lady with a small boy walking to the school (You so rarely saw a white lady walking). After a little thought I asked her, "Are you sitting on a plastic bag?" On the affirmative I said, "Lean forward", and took it from under her and threw it on the back seat next to her little boy. Of course she asked me what it was, and got quite flushed, but what else could I do?
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