WKRC News -- Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck ..............
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Sept 28th 2021
Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck
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Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck
FARGO, N.D. (WDAY / CNN Newsource / WKRC) -- This story is nuts -- literally.
A man in North Dakota has been saddled with a massive cleanup job, caused by a tiny, furry perpetrator.
"The red squirrel will come behind, run along the frame rail and all the way up to the front," said Bill Fischer.
Fischer just cannot win the war. A beautiful black walnut tree in the yard produces nuts that a red squirrel finds irresistible. However, the squirrel has picked Fisher's Chevy Avalanche as the winter storage hideout for hundreds of these nuts, each about the size of a small lemon.
"A lot of places, in the radiator fan, all the way through here, that corner has been covered full with walnuts," said Fischer. "It was planning on camping there for the winter."
Fischer has cleaned out 42 gallons of black walnuts from his truck from every crack and crevice of his Avalanche.
That includes the engine compartment, fenders ... nothing is off limits.
"I had to pull the fenders off and clean out all the walnuts out, and thought I had them all and took it down the road, turned the corner and found one rolling inside the windshield where the wipers go," said Fischer.
Fisher's dog, Ashur, is beside himself. That pesky little red squirrel seems to taunt him. And to think this just happened over a few days the truck was parked.
"It is one red squirrel doing this, going into the pickup," said Fischer.
He got most of the black walnuts out, but few are not retrievable.
"I have some rolling around the frame rails wells as well, that I can't get at," said Fischer.
Looks like that furry little fella is going to have to re-stock ahead of winter.
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