Man Stunned to Discover His Malfunctioning Car Was Stuffed With Over 40 Pounds of Hazelnuts
Cars act up all the time. Usually, it’s something mechanical or electrical that causes the car to malfunction. However, one man recently found out that the cause of these malfunctions can sometimes be a little more… nutty.
A man in Jixi City, China’s Heilongjiang Province, had been having some trouble with his car recently. It was making strange noises that had progressively gotten worse. The noises weren’t annoying enough, apparently, for him to get the car checked, though.
It wasn’t until his car’s heating system started acting up that he decided to take it to a mechanic. Luckily for him, a friend of his had a garage.
Hazelnuts, hazelnuts, everywhere!
When his friend started looking for what could be causing the noises and the heating issue, he discovered that the car was stuffed with hazelnuts.
There were hazelnuts below the windshield and under the hood. Hazelnuts were inside the car’s air vents. There were even hazelnuts packed into the cabin filter.
“The maintenance started at 9 a.m. that day, and it wasn’t until after 11 a.m. that all the hazelnuts were removed,” Oddity Central reports the car’s owner wrote on Weibo.
What made the discovery even more of a mystery to the car’s owner was that the vehicle had mainly been parked in a garage. That, at least to him and the mechanic, ruled out squirrels filling his car with hazelnuts. Unfortunately, that meant the nuts had been stored there by rats. Now he is going to install sticky traps to prevent the rodents from causing any further damage.
This sort of thing has happened before, numerous times
In 2022, a squirrel stuffed 558 black walnuts under the hood of a Subaru Forester while a woman was on vacation.
In 2021, a man in Fargo, North Dakota, discovered a squirrel had stashed 182 pounds of nuts in his Chevy pickup truck. He ended up removing seven buckets filled with walnuts from his vehicle.
In 2019, a woman in Pittsburgh found almost 200 walnuts and a squirrel’s nest under the hood of her Kia Sorento. She didn’t discover them until she smelled something burning while driving.
