WEIRD AND WILD

Squirrel hid 175 pounds of nuts in Chevy Avalanche pickup while owner was away

Critter filled engine bay with black walnuts

Someone really likes toasted walnuts.

A Fargo, N.D., man returning from a four-day trip discovered a large cargo in is Chevrolet pickup, but not in the bed.

a squirrel had stashed 175 pounds of black walnuts under the hood of his Avalanche in the engine bay.

"I could only laugh at the situation as it has occurred in the past," Fischer said …the nuts come from a nearby tree that produces a biannual harvest The insurance salesman spent seven hours removing body parts to get to the nuts, which filled seven five-gallon buckets, but doesn’t think he got to all of them."Some of the nuts I am unable to retrieve. They are hidden inside the frame," he said.

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