Super User Sam Posted May 17, 2012 Super User Posted May 17, 2012 OK guys, this is what happened. I moved my wife's Grand Cherokee Jeep out of the garage and into the driveway to make room for 850 pounds of Louisiana crawfish for our LSU crawfish boil which I was keeping in my garage. I forgot to roll up the passenger side windowws after moving the Jeep. That night our friendly racoon, that visits our trash cans on a nightly basis, jumped into her Jeep and lookd for something to eat. I knew something was amiss when I saw the package of crackers on the Jeep's hood the next morning. The racoon also bite into some gum. When my wife entered the Jeep to go to the grocery store, she noticed the foot marks on the inside of the passenger side front window and the cracker crumbs on the floor mat. She asked me what had happened and I told her a racoon had gotten into her car and taken her crackers but left them on the Jeep's hood. She said she could not blame the racoon as the crackers were stale. Question: Anyone else out there have any amimals visit their cars in the evenings? Just wondering. Quote
Super User K_Mac Posted May 17, 2012 Super User Posted May 17, 2012 Sounds like you were lucky. The little varmints can be very destructive. My daughter had to buy heavy duty trash cans to keep them from making a mess of the yard. I would not want them in my vehicles. Sounds like the one that visited you was fairly polite; I would not count on all of them to be so well behaved. My father-in-law has a family that he feeds regularly. They will eat dog food on his front porch, even during the day. I don't trust the things though... Quote
Super User BrianinMD Posted May 17, 2012 Super User Posted May 17, 2012 Not a raccoon, but a family member left their car windows down one night and a stray tom cat decided to sleep in it. Which was fine until the second stray tom cat showed up. The mess and smell that was left over from the fight took awhile to go away. Quote
Super User Lund Explorer Posted May 17, 2012 Super User Posted May 17, 2012 Never in my vehicle, but i had one make a visit into my boat. Ate an entire 100 pack of Power Worms that were sitting on the deck. On a brighter note - At least that coon didn't chow down on your crawdads! Quote
Super User deaknh03 Posted May 17, 2012 Super User Posted May 17, 2012 Never in my vehicle, but i had one make a visit into my boat. Ate an entire 100 pack of Power Worms that were sitting on the deck. On a brighter note - At least that coon didn't chow down on your crawdads! Those freakin power worms will catch anything! 2 Quote
Shad_Master Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 A few years ago the heater fan on my car started making a noise and I though it might be a bearing or the motor was just going out. As the temperatures got colder it started making more noise and so I decided to take it. Dropped off the car and got a ride to work. As I walked into the office, my message light was blinking, it was my mechanic and his question was 1) Do you have a dog? and 2) Do you leave near an open field? When I answered yes to both questions, he told me that the fan housing was completely packed with dog food. Apparently the field mice that live behind us were getting into the dog food and storing it up for winter. He poured about 2 pounds of dog food out in the trash can, I bought one of those plastic bins to store the dog food - problem solved. 1 Quote
Super User Raider Nation Fisher Posted May 17, 2012 Super User Posted May 17, 2012 Me know. Have a buddy that had a four ft rat snake get on his engine. It got caught in the belt while he was driving down the road. Splattered the snake all over the hood and knocked the belt off the pulleys. Quote
Super User grimlin Posted May 17, 2012 Super User Posted May 17, 2012 Sounds like you were lucky. The little varmints can be very destructive. My daughter had to buy heavy duty trash cans to keep them from making a mess of the yard. I would not want them in my vehicles. Sounds like the one that visited you was fairly polite; I would not count on all of them to be so well behaved. My father-in-law has a family that he feeds regularly. They will eat dog food on his front porch, even during the day. I don't trust the things though... Yup Lucky to say the least! They are in our plant at work and they are ripping out all kind of drywall,wooden flooring and occasionally Day shift will find trash cans tipped over and garbage scattered all over the plant. They also hide up in the beams and crane railings. We got traps set up all over the plant trying to catch them. I rarely ever leave my windows up unattended.If I do it's barely cracked open in the summer. However I have cats go up under my car and into my engine and tore some wires out. costs me 75$ every time they do it. Quote
OHIO Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 A few years ago the heater fan on my car started making a noise and I though it might be a bearing or the motor was just going out. As the temperatures got colder it started making more noise and so I decided to take it. Dropped off the car and got a ride to work. As I walked into the office, my message light was blinking, it was my mechanic and his question was 1) Do you have a dog? and 2) Do you leave near an open field? When I answered yes to both questions, he told me that the fan housing was completely packed with dog food. Apparently the field mice that live behind us were getting into the dog food and storing it up for winter. He poured about 2 pounds of dog food out in the trash can, I bought one of those plastic bins to store the dog food - problem solved. Similar story except no mice. We have a dog door on our garage and raccoons are always coming in and eating my dogs food. One night about a year ago I heard a loud bang in the garage. I thought someone was breaking in, so I went out the front door and around to the garage. My adrenaline was pumpin and I was ready to start swingin at whoever I saw. I felt like the biggest idiot when I saw the raccoon in their chowin down on some dog food. Quote
GLADES Posted May 17, 2012 Posted May 17, 2012 I had a stray momma cat have a litter of kitten's in my boat. She slipped in under the boat cover. Cute little buggers. After a couple of weeks they moved on. Quote
northern basser Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 Just the other day I was pulling up to a house with my work van and a bird flew from the back(inside the vehicle) of the van, then landed on the dash in front of the passenger seat. It scared the crap out of me, but I think the bird was pretty freaked out too. Quote
Super User Sam Posted May 18, 2012 Author Super User Posted May 18, 2012 I spoke to Wdycrankbait about the story and he and I agreed that the most horrible thing that ever got into his car was Grace. Grace is my next door neighbor who lives with her parents and sells Amway. I set Woody and Grace up on a date. Hope Woody will elecidate to us about having Grace in his car. Quote
Super User deaknh03 Posted May 18, 2012 Super User Posted May 18, 2012 Not a car story, but still annoying. A couple years ago my wife and I heard scratching noises in our bedroom ceiling, and scurrying about, especially late at night. We have vaulted ceilings, and only a perimeter crawl space as access. After a couple of nights, I got the sack to open the crawl space and have a look. I open the mini door, peek my head around the corner, and I am looking at a huge raccoon, needless to say I back my skid stained self out of there quick like. Next day I call pest control, they come out, and tell us we have a mama and babies living up there, and mama is the scurrying we hear, the babies are the scratching. He traps the mama the first night, then cuts a couple of holes in our ceiling to find the nesting babies, and pulls out 4 babies, and literally they were right over our headboard. here is a picture the pest control guy had me take as he was pulling the babies out of the ceiling. http://www.jpwildlif...s-control.shtml its the second picture, at the bottom of the page. Quote
WdyCrankbait Posted May 19, 2012 Posted May 19, 2012 Thanks Sam! I thought that was our secret!!! Quote
Super User Bassn Blvd Posted May 20, 2012 Super User Posted May 20, 2012 My wife, every now and again, finds one of my rubber worms in her bed sheets or underwear drawer. 1 Quote
Michael DiNardo Posted May 22, 2012 Posted May 22, 2012 You had me at 850 lbs of crawfish. I love traveling to LA. Sorry if that is off topic. Mike Quote
Super User Sam Posted May 23, 2012 Author Super User Posted May 23, 2012 Mike, the mudbugs were for our LSU crawfish boil in Richmond, Virginia. We have a great time and the Cajun guys do a fantastic job of cooking the little creatures. The crawfish this year were outstanding. I ate like I had nine rectums! Quote
Super User Raider Nation Fisher Posted May 23, 2012 Super User Posted May 23, 2012 Mike, the mudbugs were for our LSU crawfish boil in Richmond, Virginia. We have a great time and the Cajun guys do a fantastic job of cooking the little creatures. The crawfish this year were outstanding. I ate like I had nine rectums! Cajuns in VA? Naw homie I think thy are called hillbillies up in that area, of the country. LSWHO crawfish boil? I guess its true what they say. You can take the boy outta the swamp but you'll never take the swamp out the boy. 1 Quote
Super User Bankbeater Posted May 25, 2012 Super User Posted May 25, 2012 Years ago I used to have a malibu classic. One day I was replacing the wiper motor, and I noticed something furry in the front around the fan. Turned out that the neighbor's cat had come in while I had the garage open and decided to take a nap up in the motor. Luckily we were able to get the cat out in one piece and without injury. Quote
scrutch Posted May 26, 2012 Posted May 26, 2012 Raccoon feces contains a very deadly parasite! Never mess with raccoon dung! http://www.raccoonfacts.net/raccoon_droppings/raccoon_droppings.html It nearly killed a little boy in Michigan when the parasite got into his brain. Quote
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