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Mechanics working on a faulty car were astonished to uncover the problem - 2,000 nuts hidden in its air filter.
It is thought a squirrel had stashed its winter supply in David Bowler's engine while the car was in his garage.
Mr Bowler took the Rover 45 to a garage in Fareham, Hampshire, after his wife Jill told him it was having problems picking up speed.
When he went to fetch the vehicle, Mr Bowler was presented with a bag full of nuts weighing 1.5kg (3.3lb).
Mr Bowler, 69, from Fareham, told the BBC News website: "I phoned up and asked whether the problem was the exhaust and the receptionist said 'no'.
"She said there was a problem and I could tell she was smiling.
"When I went in to collect the car I was presented with this carrier bag half full with peanuts.
"I was amazed actually. Everybody seems to think squirrels have taken the nuts from their box in the garden.
"But it's a bit of a mystery really as to how the nuts got there because I do not think a squirrel could get into the garage. To me the evidence looks like mice."
Richard Lawman, after-sales manager at Pooles MG Rover in Wickham Road, said staff were "astounded" by the discovery.
He said: "What we think has happened is that some friendly squirrel had come up the air intake pipe and was storing his winter food in the air filter assembly and causing a blockage.
"It was a very unusual thing to see."

LOL.  My exhaust fell off yesterday, it wasn't squirrels tho'

Will

That story sounds plain nuts to me.

Squirrels, I hate the blasted things. I once left my favourite garden chair outside for a couple of hours in the sunshine. It had a nice flowery cover on it. Apparently I wasn't the only one to like it. When I went outside to put it away one of them bushy tailed rats had stripped the cover right off & completely ruined it. He probably had a very pretty nest somewhere.

Very dangerous creatures, Squirrels...

They'll nibble their way through your nuts at the slightest opportunity.... ..... ...!

LOL... ...!

Paul.

Very dangerous creatures, Squirrels...

They'll nibble their way through your nuts at the slightest opportunity.... ..... ...!

Nasty. Keep a close watch on your nuts at all times, especially during the hibernation season.

PS. The darned things don't seem to hibernate these days. They always seem to be burying their nuts in my back lawn. I find all sorts of exotic trees growing there in the Spring. Very strange creatures squirrels.

Very intelligent as well.  The paternal grandmother of our Prime Ministers wife was a Squirrel.  Fact.

I like watching their antics and sort of admire them, but they can be a royal pain. I was renting a little converted cottage upstate for a while; it was so quiet up there at night, took me a while to get used to it. But the squirrels put an end to that. There was an opening under the eaves on one side, and the bastards got in there for the winter, instead of building a nest up a tree as they should. This little house had no proper attic, just a small airspace, and very low ceilings made of plywood. Well, it seemed these squirrels liked to wait until I was just drifting off, then at least one of them would squat right over my bed, set an acorn on a joist, and start gnawing. What a sound! Aargh! I'd jump out of bed, bang on the ceiling, etc... they'd stop, but as soon as I laid my head down again...!
The landlord suggested poison,; I told him that notions of cruelty aside, I didn't care to have dead squirrels rotting in my house, so I fixed the eaves myself, then soon erected fencing all around that side of the house (so
I could leave the dog out there), forcing the squirrels to cross the dreaded "Peg Zone" to get to the house. Of course she'd never catch one, but she loved scaring the hell out of them, and was very good at it. Soon all was as it should be- nice oak-leaf nest up a nearby tree, and no squirrels in the yard, let alone the house!!  ;D

lol, we've got a rotten infestation of black squirrels at the school...

They literally have no fears as they will come running up to me while I'm walking to class...

Mind you I never feed them or pay them any attention, just walk around them when they are in the way...

Used to have them all over our old neughborhood, but haven't seen many since we moved about 5 years ago..:-)

Stupid squirrels.

Me, personally, I keep my nuts out of harms way...

Once upon a time we had our own red squirrels. Pretty little creatures they are although I can't say I've ever seen one. Except for a colony on the Isle of Wight there haven't been any around here for many years.



I was told they were driven out by those little grey bushy-tailed rats from America but don't ask me how they got here. The red squirrel is real danger of extinction. http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/durham/RedAlert/

Dunno if that's the same variety of red squirrel we have here in America...we just shoot them when they were on the feeder.

I had to trap a bunch of them (I live in town so NO GUNS allowed).  I would drive them several miles out of town and release them.  I don't think they cared for riding in the trunk very much (is it boot that you call it in over there?)

I saw some very similar squirrels in New Mexico last October; not so reddish, but definitely had the long tufts on the ears. So how is it that squirrel families are so well-travelled?

I was told they were driven out by those little grey bushy-tailed rats from America but don't ask me how they got here.

That was revenge for the dandilions  ;D.

This sounds really redneck, but I used to have a pet squirrel. He was fun to have around, except for the fact that they cannot be litterbox trained. One time he tryed to crawl up the inside of my pants leg, but I stopped him before he got into any important areas.

That was revenge for the dandilions  ;D.

This sounds really redneck, but I used to have a pet squirrel. He was fun to have around, except for the fact that they cannot be litterbox trained. One time he tryed to crawl up the inside of my pants leg, but I stopped him before he got into any important areas.

LOL!!  It's even more redneck to eat them. the brains, roasted while inside the skull, are supposed to be a hillbilly delicacy. Mmmmm...

Ahh. squirrels, one moment you are walking down Doug's garden, minding your own business and the next second...



Always wear nutprotection-devices when around the little bastards!  ;D