JohnCenaFan28
12-15-2008, 10:10 PM
A US woman opened her car bonnet when her indicator and windscreen wipers stopped working - to find thousands of walnuts.
Hope Wideup, of Demotte, Indiana, said: "There were thousands in there. They were everywhere."
She thinks a chipmunk may have found its way into her car - which had been sitting idle for several weeks - and used it as a storage depot.
Ms Wideup suspects that it all started when a chipmunk snatched a garden glove from her yard. She later found the glove in the engine compartment when she was trying to repair the broken indicator.
Unable to fix the problem, she let the car sit unused for a couple of weeks, before hearing an unusual noise from the engine when she finally tried to start it.
"Apparently this little guy stuffed a bunch of these nuts in the accelerator throttle," she said, adding that the car cost her $242 to fix.
"It's funny, but it's not."
-Nova
Hope Wideup, of Demotte, Indiana, said: "There were thousands in there. They were everywhere."
She thinks a chipmunk may have found its way into her car - which had been sitting idle for several weeks - and used it as a storage depot.
Ms Wideup suspects that it all started when a chipmunk snatched a garden glove from her yard. She later found the glove in the engine compartment when she was trying to repair the broken indicator.
Unable to fix the problem, she let the car sit unused for a couple of weeks, before hearing an unusual noise from the engine when she finally tried to start it.
"Apparently this little guy stuffed a bunch of these nuts in the accelerator throttle," she said, adding that the car cost her $242 to fix.
"It's funny, but it's not."
-Nova