Mouse Eats Cat
08-09-06, 11:51 AM
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Mouse Eats Cat
When my cycling computer’s battery died just the other day, I decided to just find the spare computer that I knew was lying around in the garage, instead of driving to get a new battery…
Well, I sure got a surprise: The rubber press-button on the Cat-Eye unit was completely gone, exposing the electronic chip underneath!
The culprit? A hungry mouse, it seems... as evidenced by tell-tale signs of nibbled plastic all around the area of the erstwhile button! Either that or a super cockroach. Wow, I thought this year’s winter in NJ was not so bad, but, for your everyday mouse and/or other pesky vermin, I guess it was close to famine season.
Lesson learned-- watch out what you store in your garage, you don’t know what’s lurking!
Well, I sure got a surprise: The rubber press-button on the Cat-Eye unit was completely gone, exposing the electronic chip underneath!
The culprit? A hungry mouse, it seems... as evidenced by tell-tale signs of nibbled plastic all around the area of the erstwhile button! Either that or a super cockroach. Wow, I thought this year’s winter in NJ was not so bad, but, for your everyday mouse and/or other pesky vermin, I guess it was close to famine season.
Lesson learned-- watch out what you store in your garage, you don’t know what’s lurking!
08-09-06, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Al1943
I'll trade your mouse for the brown recluse spiders living in my garage.
08-09-06, 02:05 PM
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BIG arachnophobe here. We have those d@mn things everywhere. Of course it doesn't help they are one of the few species that are deadly venemous to humans....
08-09-06, 02:18 PM
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Scorpions are better.
Especially when you've never seen one and then it comes out of your luggage.
'bout poo'd my skivvies
Especially when you've never seen one and then it comes out of your luggage.
'bout poo'd my skivvies
08-09-06, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Al1943
I'll trade your mouse for the brown recluse spiders living in my garage.
I just caught a Hobo spider near my garage the other day. The spider guy I brought it to for ID says that it's going to be a bad year for Hobos (spider, not transient). A mark is the size of a quarter.
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