lil red jeep
04-17-2009, 07:31 AM
Thought I'd share this with everyone. This happened last Friday to my neighbor, so I won't mention names.
My neighbor across the street is a police officer. Extremely bright guy. Will do anything in the world to help someone. One of those guys that make you wife mad that you aren't more like him, if you know what I mean. He had brought his motor home out of storage early in the week to prepare for a camping trip over Easter weekend. He parked it in his driveway and on Friday went to finish off his preparations. When he started the engine, he noticed the thing was running extremely rough, completely unlike when he drove it home and parked it. He looked under the hood, then took the motor cover off from the inside.
He found that a squirrell had climbed on top of the motor and started making a huge nest. There were large pieces of camillia bush, about half an azalia bush, lots of sticks, pine straw, etc. Probably 10 lbs of junk in only a couple of days. He also found that the squirrell had chewed through multiple wires in top of the engine. One of which went to a fuel injector (which explains why it was now running so poorly). We worked under the hood for several hours locating bad wires, cleaning out nesting materials and such before it was finally back to running condition. He ended up leaving to go camping about two hours later than he had wanted.
I saw him yesterday and he he told me he found the culprit who made such a mess in his camper. As he and his family were traveling down the interstate at 60 mph, the squirrell (who had stashed away under the dash board) dropped down onto his foot and grabbed hold for all he was worth. My neighbor said he was driving and trying not to wreck his motor home, screaming like a girl because he was only wearing sandals. His wife, daughter and daughters friend were all screaming like girls because they had never seen him scream like a girl. He finally managed to pull to the shoulder and get them out of the camper. He stood up and shook the squirrell off his foot and it ran behind his drivers seat. He said he took a few swings at the squirrell with a tire iron, but only had a couple of inches to swing in. Finally the squirrell got tired of being hit and took off out the door of the camper, crossed a ditch and ran into the woods.
It's times like those I wish I could have seen a tape of the incident. I thought it was too funny not to share!
My neighbor across the street is a police officer. Extremely bright guy. Will do anything in the world to help someone. One of those guys that make you wife mad that you aren't more like him, if you know what I mean. He had brought his motor home out of storage early in the week to prepare for a camping trip over Easter weekend. He parked it in his driveway and on Friday went to finish off his preparations. When he started the engine, he noticed the thing was running extremely rough, completely unlike when he drove it home and parked it. He looked under the hood, then took the motor cover off from the inside.
He found that a squirrell had climbed on top of the motor and started making a huge nest. There were large pieces of camillia bush, about half an azalia bush, lots of sticks, pine straw, etc. Probably 10 lbs of junk in only a couple of days. He also found that the squirrell had chewed through multiple wires in top of the engine. One of which went to a fuel injector (which explains why it was now running so poorly). We worked under the hood for several hours locating bad wires, cleaning out nesting materials and such before it was finally back to running condition. He ended up leaving to go camping about two hours later than he had wanted.
I saw him yesterday and he he told me he found the culprit who made such a mess in his camper. As he and his family were traveling down the interstate at 60 mph, the squirrell (who had stashed away under the dash board) dropped down onto his foot and grabbed hold for all he was worth. My neighbor said he was driving and trying not to wreck his motor home, screaming like a girl because he was only wearing sandals. His wife, daughter and daughters friend were all screaming like girls because they had never seen him scream like a girl. He finally managed to pull to the shoulder and get them out of the camper. He stood up and shook the squirrell off his foot and it ran behind his drivers seat. He said he took a few swings at the squirrell with a tire iron, but only had a couple of inches to swing in. Finally the squirrell got tired of being hit and took off out the door of the camper, crossed a ditch and ran into the woods.
It's times like those I wish I could have seen a tape of the incident. I thought it was too funny not to share!