“[The] owner had no idea.”
It’s a busy time of year for squirrels, working to stash away a backup supply of food to snack on through the winter.
But not all hiding places are created equal.
Earlier this month, a car rolled into the shop where automotive technician Carlos Jeffers-Suffles works. The car’s owner had brought it in for an oil change — but this appointment would prove to be anything but routine.
Upon popping the hood, Jeffers-Suffles and his coworkers realized that the car needed far more work than that.
This is what they saw:
Amazingly, despite the car’s engine compartment being fully packed with pinecones, it evidently still ran without a hitch.
“[The] owner had no idea,” Jeffers-Suffles wrote, adding: “Surprisingly, I got paid three hours to clean it all up. I wasn’t too mad about it.”
A certain someone else, however, no doubt was.
To not go to waste, the pinecones were placed in a wooded spot near the shop for other animals to access.
Hopefully, with the weeks remaining before winter really sets in, the squirrel who’d piled those pinecones in the car in the first place will choose a wiser place to amass his haul. After all, it’d be a shame to have all that effort go to waste.
