View Full Version : Toyota runs on rats power
Chucaro
1st June 2011, 01:25 PM
This have to be an Australian first!!
When the police stopped a Toyota in a radom inspection for roadworthy and opened the bonnet 2 rats jumped out and a third was inside among the nests in the engine bay.
The article is HERE (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/01/3232572.htm'section=justin)
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/06/1493.jpg
land864
1st June 2011, 04:00 PM
And I thought the rats were normally in the drivers seat:eek:
Hymie
1st June 2011, 04:01 PM
They pulled it over because it looked Ratty, what did they expect?
jx2mad
1st June 2011, 04:18 PM
Abandoning a sinking ship???
Gillie
1st June 2011, 09:20 PM
What do you expect in Ararat?
JayBoRover
1st June 2011, 09:23 PM
So did the cops "red sticker it" or "bait it"?
Did the 'yota run after the rats left?
I wonder what came out of the glovebox?
This could go on for a while.:p
p38arover
1st June 2011, 09:38 PM
It shows just how reliable Toyotas are - one normally never needs to open the bonnet.
LOVEMYRANGIE
1st June 2011, 09:39 PM
Put the three rats in a mouse wheel thingy, connect it to the gearbox and you've just tripled it's original power!! :p
Using Capitals, the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse or helping your uncle jack off a horse...
scarry
1st June 2011, 09:59 PM
Work friend of one of my brother's was complaining of having trouble with her corolla,less than one year old.
It eventually wouldn't start one day,so Toyota picked it up & discovered rats had eaten most of the engine wiring harness.:o
Many weeks later, as they had to wait for the parts,it was repaired,full costs payed for by the owner.
Maybe rats like the insulation on Toyota wires.:eek:
land864
1st June 2011, 11:32 PM
I'd say that was an incident of road dent and thankfully not road rage ;)
Bushie
2nd June 2011, 08:17 AM
Must be something tasty about Toymotas
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2011/06/1436.jpg
Obviously this guy crawled in behind the fan and couldn't get out once the motor was running, dead, cooked, and well dried.
We have a fair amount of 'rat' problems within the fleet, mainly chewed wiring etc.
Martyn
Chucaro
2nd June 2011, 09:40 AM
Now the rats are in a Boeing as well!!
Baby rats ground Qantas plane (http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/02/3233286.htm'section=justin)
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