A Fargo, N.D., man returned from a four-day trip and discovered a large cargo inside his pickup, but it was not in the bed. Bill Fischer revealed on Facebook that a squirrel had stashed 175 pounds of black walnuts under the hood of his Avalanche in the engine bay.
Fischer said the nuts come from a nearby tree that produces a biannual harvest and that he’s previously spotted a red squirrel making trips toward his truck and has tried to use deterrents, which didn’t work this time around. This year’s haul was a record apparently and he’s tried to deter the squirrel before. “I have in the past used a mixture of cayenne pepper and tabasco sauce in a spray mixture under the hood,” Fischer said.
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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