Horse power or mouse power?

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Golan

Golan

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Evening all,

I know it’s not strictly a Range Rover issue but it made me laugh out loud....

Well it all started when we took my girlfriends Porsche in for a service today, we dropped it off and headed for Brighton in the courtesy car to do a bit of Christmas shopping.

While we were having something to eat the garage phoned to say they’d made a small discovery! While they were removing the engine cover the mechanic was greeted by a mouse looking back at him before making good his escape across the workshop!!! He’d managed to stayed under there all the way from home about 30 plus miles...

Has anyone else had any four legged furry lodgers?
 
I had an old s3 in my garden for about 2 years then one summer i was workin in the garden and thought "fook me that bin stinks im gonna have to shove some bleach in it".
2 days later my mate called round to see if we could start the old girl up so opened the bonnet to put batt on and found a dead cat rapped up in all the wires the little fooka...
wat a stink tryin to get it out.

Also once i went to look at an old landy parked up in a feild for years opened the bonnet to be greeted by the biggest mudder fookin rat i have ever seen, it jumped, i jumped my mate jumped, the farmer jumped.
i didnt buy it....
 
storm99 said:
I didn't realise that series 3's were fitted with a cat..
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:D:D:D

Several years ago, was emptying the bin in the garage (mostly fluff out of the tumble dryer) and a whole family of mice came out with the rubbish - mum and several kids.

More recently, went into the garage after leaving the door open for a bit, and there was a fox sitting on top of my mower looking at me.
 
when iworked in the smoke, many years ago, went to a call out, came out to load the patient into the ambulance and there was a fox asleep on the stretcher !!!!

a couple of years ago the ambulance had to go to the fitters cause the rear air suspension wouldnt lower, drove it over the pits and the fitter pulled out a dead badger that had been wrapped around the rear axle.
 
I ****in HATE mice!!!! .. as I live at the seaside the "Water Table" is level with me grass in the back garden (Its constantly under Water) so the Mrs & I decided to "Gravel it" & install some Flower beds........

The "edges" of the beds are made from driftwood washed up on the beach (look quite Pretty)..Any how we install these beds bout 3 years ago & a Mouse Family move into one of em .. NO PROBS they are a good 50 feet from the house.


Last July Marie (the Mrs) "Finds" some more driftwood (this bit is bout 8 foot long & weights in at Fook knows (but it were heavy) gets it home & she says "put it THERE" No says I its the "Mouse House" front door ...She wernt having any of it so I puts it where she wants (effectivly blockin the Mouse House front door)

October arrives & its get cold ...so the Mice decide to move house, into my kitchen !!!!!

So far the score is.............

4 killed in traps

3 poisioned

3 clobbered on the head by me (wiv a big stick)

5 Shot (wiv me Co2 pistol)


I thought I'd got em all until last week when one little ****er decided to WALK ACROSS me desk (between me keyboard & me Screen) ......

I'm still lookin fer that little bastid (think its living in the wall cavity in my insulation!!!)
 
the hooded claw said:
gets it home & she says "put it THERE" No says I its the "Mouse House" front door ...She wernt having any of it so I puts it where she wants (effectivly blockin the Mouse House front door)

October arrives & its get cold ...so the Mice decide to move house, into my kitchen !!!!!
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2 things to learn here....

1) when it comes to civil Engineering - yu know more than yo wife!
2) Dont block a mousehole front door (unless its owned by Tussauds, in which case nuke it).
 
Many years ago picked an Holden up that had just been imported from Aus. It was in for service after it's long trip. There was a little mouse who had made his home in the chassis. He had come all the way from Aus we thought. One of the lads fed it whilst we had the car and it was still resident when the car left. We knew it was a Australian mouse because it called all the office girls Sheila and was crap at cricket.:D:D:D
 
When I had my defender and I was at uni, I went from my folks place (nice sunny day so the landy had been on the drive with the windows open).

Got to uni and my sisters cat popped up from behind the bulk head!!!

Bloody good job it stayed in the car and didnt just out at uni, she would have killed me.
 
did some work on my 1990 rrc this summer above the peddles.

found a mouses nest in there, odd thing is I had been driving it for 18 months almost every day and hadnt noticed :doh: lol :p
 
I discovered a whole bloody family had taken up residence under the back seat of my 3 door sierra cosworth which doesn't move much in the winter (if at all). They'd been using the ventilation ducts as short cuts to the engine bay and had collected all sorts of crap from around the car to use to line their nest. I even found an old tax disc that the little sods had gotten from somewhere. They'd chewed up all the sound deadening under the bonnet and dragged it through as well. Luckily they'd not nibbled too much that showed or was important in any way.
The whole engine bay was covered in droppings and ****. It took me days to pull all the seats out and wash everything I could with disinfectant. 3 years later it still smells faintly of mouse **** when you put the blowers on on a hot day!
Zapped 5 of 'em with an old trap my mother-in-law gave me. This wasn't one of the little namby-pamby ones you get in shops these days, it felt like it was made from cast iron and a couple of old suspension springs! made a hell of a mess of each one it caught. Got 5 of the little bastards in all.
 
I agree that mice rats and other rodents have no redeeming features at all. (outside of cartoons). Trapping `an squashing is fair play. I hate moles too. Trapped a live one wrecking my front lawn, Bloody thing , I was so upset I buried the damn thing alive.
 
Had an old FIAT that had been laid up. Tried starting it up, it misfired, it coughed, loud clattering crunching of valves hitting pistons.....Engine trashed..
Later found the remnants of a mouse shaped splatter on one of the the camshaft pulleys, and matching marks on one end of the broken cam belt.
little bar-staff!
 
used to be a small garage not far from me that used to do a lot of landie repairs and spares , was quite friendly with the co-owner at the time he was into clay shooting too at the time (now runs quite a successful shooting ground).
anyway goes in for some bits for my series 2a 1 day (this was around the late 80's as the 90/110 was fairly new at the time) he tells me this old dear has been in earlier that day saying her new 90 was not running very well very lumpy on tickover , so he gets 1 of the mechanics to take a butchers at it for her :D.lifts the bonnet to find a cat (or whats left of its skin) tangled around the fan belt and going around on it .
poor thing must have found a nice cosy place to get out of the sub-zero temperatures :rolleyes: :D
 
my dear old dad (now passed away) had a nissan 200zx sporty thing and the farm cat used to sleep in the gap between the radiator and the fan, once the car was started there was no way out! only he tried to jump out through the fan when it was started and got caught.....:eek: wait for it.... he survive and from then on was named fan belt!!!:D
we had another one called wheel nut but thats another story!!!!
 
many years ago while working at a peugeot dealer a farmer customer bought his wifes 206 gti in and complained when she went shopping they kept losing chocolates while it was all in the boot?!
we all thought this was a joke but i got the job put some chocolates in the boot went for a road test gone( no i did not eat them lol)
so stripped the boot pannels off and the seats and the rear quater trims to be confronted by a big fat rat not happy!!
me and it jumped from the car and ran in oposite directions! 4 days latter the valter was still cleaning out all the crap and other dead rats under the seats and carpet! it had eaten its way though the vent flap under the rear bumper and crawled into the boot then up into the second skin over the rear wheel arch and lived inside the trims! the farmer sold the car there and then for a new motor the rat mobile was traded out
 
i used to work in a plant hire yard, a digger had been out to a farm that had loadsa cats, one climbed into the radiator cowling to keep warm,next day, driver started the machine, poor bugga was stuck, the slowly cooked in the hot rad. By the time we found it, it was stiff as a board, had to strip the back end of the digger and remove rad to get it out
 
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