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Just curious as to what animals/creatures you have found while doing a mod, or mantinance or whatever to your truck?

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When installing the wiring to my KCs I found a humming bird between my grill and radiator. It was squished down and under/between them...poor thing was half melted and looked like it had been there for awhile...how it got there Im still confused about.
 
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Stock Rims!

i have a spider that lives in my passengerside ext. cab door.. he casts webs all the time over my amps, they look pretty cool so i leave them for a while sometimes!!

in my neon a few years back.. i went to penn state for the weekend.. and as i was pullin in to the campus/ happy valley.. the engine started to struggle badly.. opened the hood.. and some of my spark plugs had basically fallin apart.. i had it towed to a shop for the weekend.. when i picked it up, the mechanic said he found a squirels nest on top of the engine near the firewall, and they must have been chewing thru my spark plug wires!! he oonly found one squirell tho, it was stuck down near the transmission somehow!!
 
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I had a blue jay stuck between the bumper and the grill...

At work a Focus came in the other day and it was getting hot
the colling fan wasnt working..So I took it out to replace it and found
that a cat had got stuck between the fan and the radiator
(he was dead! must have been there for a day or two)
...thats the weirdest thing i have ever seen!!!
 
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I was driving down a freeway at 2am , when all of a sudden a spider on the inside was crawling on the windshield... pretty creepy at night seenin this thing the size of a quator going across the inside of the windshield at nighttime
 
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Once while driving this spider just dropped down right in front of my face. Luckily I had my window down and just tossed it outside. Spiders seem to like my truck. I have found one dead one, two live ones and almost everyday when I leave for school I find a new web in the bed of my truck. I also vaccumed a dead cricket out of one of the defrost vents the day I got the truck. Other than that, no finds.

On our '86 Ranger, a mud dobber wasp made a nest on one of the sun visors. That truck had a squirrel problem. They would get under the hood and eat stuff. My truck is parked where the '86 used to park, so I just put a bag of moth ***** where the truck parks and I have yet to have any problems from squirrels. We had a Contour parked there for a while. It wasn't a good idea to drive it, so it didn't move for a while. When we tried to crank it, we got a good deal of smoke from near the underhood fuse box. Stupid squirrels got to a wiring harness and chewed it up. That is another reason why I put the bag of moth ***** there. I do not want that happening to me!
 
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ON my 280zx, a squerrl was choping down on my Wiring harness harness
 
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I was opening the hood, just to look look at something, and a HUGE cat jumped out, haha, it scared me half to death..
 
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in my 01 Gt, i decapitated a bull, when i wrecked it, and it was semi-inside my car, does that count?
 
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A small finch got caught in the jet stream of my rack and slammed into the back part and died in one the openings. I never even notcied it till I got out and saw him stuck in there. I gave the lil critter a burial in the woods by my job, sappy no?
 
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I've found dragon flies on the radiator, but a couple days I've come out to my truck to find like 4-5 bees all on my truck, I guess they think it's the mothership or seomthing.... damn bees
 
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Originally Posted by blacknight
I was driving down a freeway at 2am , when all of a sudden a spider on the inside was crawling on the windshield... pretty creepy at night seenin this thing the size of a quator going across the inside of the windshield at nighttime
Happens to me about every other week really pisses me off!
 
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ive found myself in my truck
does that count?
 
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Everytime I pull out the driveway, lizards cling to dearlife on my hood while me going 40+ mph lol! Poor Lizards.
 
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Originally Posted by PickupMan92
I guess they think it's the mothership or something.... damn bees

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I've never found any animals in my truck, although I turned a squirrel into a speedbump last week.
 
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Hit a possum the other night, found him stuck in my tread the next morning or what was left of him...
 
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Cicada under hood, butterfly over radiator (cool looking black one that i mounted in my house). And flies seem to always be attracted to the outside of my truck. I was outside one day and counted as many as 5 flies on it at a time around my passenger side door.
 
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Found a cockroach in my truck one day after work. I freaked out. F7cking cockroaches.
 
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Found a cockroach in my truck one day after work. I freaked out. F7cking cockroaches.

WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY
 
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hmm well my sister had my ferret outside n my doors were open n i was working on my truck i got done closed the truck up next morning i get in to go to school n the sucker crawls out from under the seat about half way there lol it was funny my sisters not allowed to play with her ne more hehe
 
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hmmm....I was walking out to my truck one night and this big f**king cat ran out from underneither and I stepped on it, then it ran out in front of a car and got smashed flat....stupid *** cat...

othen than that...just some bees smashed into my kc's.....

oh, and one sparrow smashed into the rad....
 
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