Willesborough and Kennington Garage mechanic finds nuts in car
by Samantha Williams
An Ashford mechanic got the shock of his life when he found
a huge stash of peanuts stored away inside a car's engine.
Brian Wilkins, 51, was servicing a 2007 red Ford Fiesta when he
found the peanuts inside the air filter.
"I am amazed the car was still running," said the dad-of-two
from Kennington. "I've been a mechanic my whole life and I've never
seen anything like this before."
Mr Wilkins,
who has worked at the Willesborough and Kennington Garage, in
Church Road, for five years, believes only a mouse would have been
small enough to fit through the hole and store the peanuts in the
filter.
He added: "I can't think of anything else that could have done
it - the hole is small and quite restricted."
The car's owner Alan Barling , 78, from Kennington, added: "It's
puzzled me. Brian just couldn't believe it. When I arrived to pick
the car up he was very excited about it."
Mr Barling, a retired watch and clock repairer, said: "I don't
keep nuts in my garage or put them out for the birds, so I have no
idea where the mouse would have got the nuts from.
"Nor have I ever seen any droppings about the garage. I don't
have a cat, but there are plenty around, you would think that would
scare mice away."
01/02/13
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