Unexpected Passanger

flattop40 · Mar 28, 2009

Got home early today and decided to take advantage of the nice weather. Did the normal maintanence. Oil, filter, fluids, tires, etc. Got to cleaning the inside and low and behold stumbled across a passanger.

Here was a dead mouse. I remember hearing one time what I thought was a mouse 6-8 weeks ago but it was shortly after I had my load of a box of lab rats and thought it was my imagination. No it was not one of the load because they were white and this was your typical gray field mouse.

My first thought was it some how crawled up into the engine area and somehow got in. Then I realized that I am sure it was in one of the freight I must have been carrying and came out in transit. Not sure what killed it. Could have already been poisoned at the factory and then died in the van. Could have froze to death on one of my home weekends. Not really sure but with my son standing there seeing it was kinda hard to explain.

Has anyone else had an unexpected passanger?

pelicn · Mar 28, 2009

The only unexpected passenger we've had is birds stuck in the grill.

Tennesseahawk · Mar 28, 2009

A spider that stayed alive on my windshield from NE to PA.

We had a bat stuck in our grill, as well as a cardinal.

Picklett · Mar 28, 2009

Passing the Salton Sea in California...a duck flew into the air horn...feathers everywhere...dead duck only on roof...

finbar73 · Mar 28, 2009

this is weird and aparently carrying mice of some sort is common.Just wondering could you not use some sort of rubber maid bin to use,so the "cargo" would not escape or would t-c requirements get in the way

trkr75 · Mar 28, 2009

I had one... I still laugh my butt off. We were in Laredo, TX for a long weekend, we had gone to several different places to pick up and then they all canceled before we even opened the doors. well after 3 of these we finally got a load that picked up on Tuesday. We got over there and when I opened the door out popped a mexican and took off running. I guess he thought with all the moving around we were farther north. Then of course the normal extra passengers birds bats and such

Jack_Berry · Mar 28, 2009

We got over there and when I opened the door out popped a mexican and took off running.
if that is not an endorsement for keeping the boxed locked i don't know what is. he must have been locked in by someone else?

had a spider one time. he went SPLAT! gracie is very allergic to bites. think he bit her.

BillChaffey · Mar 28, 2009

There are a lot of Truck Stops in the mid West that back up to fields. Mice just want to get warm, & it doesn't take much of a opening for them to get in. I came out of a truck stop one time and had a Black snake drooping down from the frame. Sprayed some "household" cleaner on or at him & off he went.

cheri1122 · Mar 28, 2009

The last vulture to leave the roadside buffet got caught on my passenger side west coast mirror. Held in place by a wing caught in the supports, he rode along with me (dead) completely blocking the mirror, for about 45 miles.

Scuba · Mar 28, 2009

I had one of those tv antennas that looked like a wing but it had a point on it. One day i was coming down out of Albany NY and a pegion flew in front of me and it turned to travel in my direction and the antenna stuck the bird right in the butt and it stuck there. It looked funny going down the road with it's wings spread from the wind.

layoutshooter · Mar 28, 2009

I got a hen pheasant in Kansas, played heck with the grill. Got a Sea Gull on the Cheasepeke Bay Bridge/Tunnel. I don't know how it did not break the windshield. How in the world did a Mexican get into your truck? Layoutshoter

Wingnut · Mar 28, 2009

We had an owl fly into the grill of our truck. The truck was new and barely a week old when it happened. Grill was fine but the poor owl didn't fare as well.

Scuba · Mar 28, 2009

Two years ago I hit a deer in Maryland while I was looking at the truck for damage a Maryland state cop pulled up. She asked me why I was on the side of the road. So I told her well I hit a deer and I pulled over to see what it did to my truck. She whips out her flash light and looks all over my RED truck and says to me hmm I don’t see any blood. {duh} Sir are you sure you hit a deer so I point out a crack in the bumper that has fur sticking out of it and I told her. Well it was either a deer or you are missing a midget. She didn’t get the joke. Her next question after flashing her light in the road was did I see where the deer went. I told her that the last time I saw it; it was about 25 feet in the air heading toward the medium strip. With all the seriousness of CSI Maryland she asks me “well sir do you think you killed the deer” at this point I can’t hardly believe they allow her to carry a gun. So I told her” well if it isn’t dead it will be the one with one heck of a limp” I got in my truck and left her to search for the limping deer. i think of the deer as a passenger even though it didn't hang onto the truck because i had air freight on at the time

Wingnut · Mar 28, 2009

Scuba said:
I had one of those tv antennas that looked like a wing but it had a point on it. One day i was coming down out of Albany NY and a pegion flew in front of me and it turned to travel in my direction and the antenna stuck the bird right in the butt and it stuck there. It looked funny going down the road with it's wings spread from the wind.

Man oh man....what I wouldn't give to have a picture of that!!!!!!! It would be a hit on you tube.