Wierdest thing you ever found in your car

[Witchfinder]

I've just managed to extract a live kitten from the engine bay of my friend's car. We'd driven 3 miles from work and heard a distinct mewing sound from under the bonnet. The kitten took a little bit of "coaxing" to remove (ie: I had to prod it with a long stick), but in the end, it hopped off the undertray and scuttled away, no harm done.

This got me thinking that it can hardly be the strangest thing anyone has ever found inside their car. What have you found in your car?

[Mr Gearchange]

Witchfinder said:

but in the end, it hopped off the undertray and scuttled away, no harm done.

Apart from the Kitten is now 3 miles from home and next to a busy road? I give it half an hour....

[The fatboy]

lucky that it didn't died due to the moving parts.

[Marf]

Just after buying my MR2 I found an empty syringe packet under the drivers seat. :/

[GPT]

So you've just driven someone's kitten 3 miles away from it's home and left it there.

Well done.

[rhinochopig]

A switch marked night vision lights. Sadly I had neither night vision bulbs or goggles. Still it was a switch marked night vision lights, which is pretty cool.

[Poledriver]

GPT said:

So you've just driven someone's kitten 3 miles away from it's home and left it there.

Well done.

You do realsie that all cars will now have to have engine bays which cannot be accessed by kittens!!!!

[Witchfinder]

GPT said:

So you've just driven someone's kitten 3 miles away from it's home and left it there.

Unfortunately, it hopped it before I could grab it, and it ran off as I approached it. I think it might have climbed into the car where it was parked, and not at work.

I say "kitten," but it looked 4+ months old.

Edited by Witchfinder on Monday 4th October 13:32

[ajp70]

Not me but my mother. My mum used to have a pet supplies business and, years ago, her van started to play up so my dad (good with cars) investigated.

Some SICKO had stuffed a kitten into the fuel tank.

[anonymous-user]

Jane Mansfield! The dirty cow...

[Mr Gearchange]

ajp70 said:

Not me but my mother. My mum used to have a pet supplies business and, years ago, her van started to play up so my dad (good with cars) investigated.

Some SICKO had stuffed a kitten into the fuel tank.

Maybe he couldn't quite cram the Tiger in?

[supra legend]

I opened my bonnet to find a rat under there once. I was actually looking for rats to be fair, parked near a smelly septic tank and a few people had had problems with HT leads being chewed

[rhinochopig]

ajp70 said:

Not me but my mother. My mum used to have a pet supplies business and, years ago, her van started to play up so my dad (good with cars) investigated.

Some SICKO had stuffed a kitten into the fuel tank.

Perhaps it was Esso.

[Poledriver]

Found a dead rat curled around the distributor cables on Tow Vehicle Rqrd's TVR a few weeks ago!

[SamPet]

A friend found an envelope with £2000 in it when he bought his Golf. Called the previous owner to ask if they'd missed anything when clearing the car out. They said they hadn't.

He gave it to his mum so she could go on holiday.....bless

[anonymous-user]

I have found a dead rat cooked against the engine block in an old car of mine. I was wondering what the smell was for days.

I also found a set of duel controls and amp cabling to the boot in swmbo's old car. It must have started life as a driving instructors car, then had a big sterio install at some point before she got it.

Lewis

[Cooper500]

Driving in America at night and something flew in the window of a friend’s car and was fluttering around. We all start franticly flapping and we assumed it had flown back out as the fluttering stopped.

2 weeks later the car smelt bad (cabbage bad), and we could not find anything in the car. Returned home to the UK and my American friend emailed me saying he found a massive dead bat under the passenger seat.

[RicksAlfas]

Accelerating off a roundabout in my old 156 Sportwagon there was a sudden loss of power so I pulled in at the side of the road. The engine idled perfectly, just wouldn't rev. Had a look under the bonnet and all seemed OK. Asked my missus to rev it and noticed the air intake pipes collapsing. Turned out this big fellow...

must have climbed onto the undertray overnight, sat there while I was pottering about and then disappeared up the intake when I gave it some beans. It was very dead, and very warm, but completely intact (thankfully). Trust me the last thing you want to find in your airbox is a pair of warm furry ears! To give you some idea of scale that is the AA man's A4 pad next to it.

[The Wookie]

I once found an unopened, vintage Marks and Spencers Hoisin Duck Wrap under the passenger seat of my Focus.

It was 3 years out of date, and needless to say it hadn't aged well...

[Patrick Bateman]

Why didn't you eat it?

Wasteful, wasteful people.