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Re: An additional tip for winter storage

To: "Moore, John" <jmoore@spyglass.com>,
Subject: Re: An additional tip for winter storage
From: Alan Dahl <adahl@eskimo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 01:34:42 -0800
At 11:43 AM 12/20/99 -0600, Moore, John wrote:
>For those of you who may be storing a car for the winter, or next season,
>storing a winter car for the summer, might I suggest adding DCON mice killer
>to your list of items to use for car storage?
>...
>       Man this car really smells inside. Smells like ..... urine ..... Oh
>God no. No No NO NO. It cant be.... MICE !!!! OK where are they? The
>underside of the seats are a mess, mice feces everywhere, much seat padding
>missing. More mess on the back floor. Hmmm, why is there smoke coming from
>the defroster vents? Oh God, they're in the heat vents!!!! Suddenly my wife
>screams, "A mouse just ran out from by the engine". Ah ha that where they
>are!!! 2 mice, and their family all nested snuggly in my
>heat/air-conditioning air intake and the whole vent system. 

Heck, mice just aren't a winter-time problem, my co-driver Tom Tkacik found
a mouse in my Miata's engine compartment (by the winshield wiper mechanism)
during a run at the San Diego NT! Had to make two more runs with the mouse
in the car before we finally chased him out...

- Alan Dahl
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