Things you find in a working machine

[dr galaga]

I've come across bees, wasps, and mice, but never one of these in a working machine !

[Larry]

That's where I store my coons.

[bubba]

Thats pretty cool...

[BrianB]

Sweet! 24 hour security/attendants!

[Pat Pixley]

That is something else I would have never believed it till I saw it.

[old times]

Great warning on the animal control guy's shirt.   

[Basementgeek]

Many years ago my boss told me that he had an old National Candy machine that a small opossum got into it and died. 

The machine had to be removed and then steamed cleaned, to get rid of the smell.

BG

[mrsoda]

first machine i ever got, took it to be restored and when i got it back, opened it and found a birds nest inside that the lazy ass restorer painted hammer tone and left in the machine. this was a very long time ago,

[loman4ec]

One of my first machines I bought I brought home and put it in our apartment overnight until I could get it into storage because the apartment management was complaining about machines outside our apartment and that night a Huge brown recluse spider crawled out and into my bed. Luckily Kate saw it before we got in bed. It was huge. About the size of my fist. We killed it and took it to the biology professor at the school and he is who ID'd it as a Brown Recluse. That would have been a bad night if she hadn,t seen it.


Another time I bought a V44 from New Orleans and sent it to Tennessee and there was a big gecko in it and Kate and I kept it and named it Vendo. It escaped about a year later.

[mznb1u]

Haven't found anything unusual in any of my machines yet but I have a Stoner 180 that I haven't drilled out the lock on the lower cabinet yet!  Perhaps the map to Blackbeard's treasure but more likely about what Geraldo found in Al Capone's vault!

I like the hammer-toned bird's nest.  I will have to make a note of that:  1.  Remove bird's nest before painting!

Like the gecko story as well!  Not so much on the brown recluse--that could have been a very bad experience indeed!

  Tim