Who filled this microwave antenna with 300+ pounds of acorns: squirrels or aliens?

[ehrnst]

Who stuffed this microwave antenna to the bursting point with 300 pounds (about 35-50 gallons) of acorns?

Some say it was a squirrel, others blame a woodpecker. But these animals are so similar that it is hardly worth arguing about. Just watch the video.

http://boingboing.net/2015/11/19/an-animal-filled-a-microwave-a.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. Whoa! Busy squirrels! And how are squirrels similar to woodpeckers? nt

[KamaAina]

8. Both make great cartoon characters?

[question everything]

2. Love it! (nt)

[Warpy]

3. Probably squirrels

It's been proven that squirrels bury their acorns and other nuts but can't find them once they're buried. They dig at random and usually find acorns buried by some other animal.

My guess is that some squirrel was tired of risking attacks by predators on the ground and used this thing for several years, never realizing that once the acorns went in, there was no way for him to retrieve them.

300 pounds of them is impressive. I hope they bothered to plug up the holes.

[Wilms]

4. Maybe the squirrel was just trying to get rid of the antenna.

I mean, who likes cell towers?

[packman]

5. Busy little squirrels -

"Hey, Chip. Didn't we put those nuts in that round thingy"
"Yah, Dale. But some human needed them"

[mindwalker_i]

6. Some nutcase

[KamaAina]

7. James O'Keefe?

[Historic NY]

9. Holy Sh-t the mother load..............

an old car I bought a couple years ago was a bank for some squirrel to make acorn deposits. I pulled the console out and discovered the whorde. I couldn't figure out how he got them in there.

[pansypoo53219]

10. chippies stored sunflower seeds on my 73 old mobile delta 88's engine block, & i found shells in my

air filter. i had that car in the 90's never made 100k with in. sigh.

[spanone]

11. wow....that's amazing

[yuiyoshida]

12. That has to be enough to last a few generations of

squirrels, or one amazingly fat 300 ton squirrel. Squirrelzilla!

[FLPanhandle]

13. Someone had to...

[NV Whino]

14. I had a similar situation a few years ago

A client had nice green decorative shutters on his house. The woodpeckers dropped acorns behind them, and then pecked holes in the shutters trying to get to them. We decided to just remove the shutters and solve the problem. When my guy took them down, he was almost knocked off the ladder by the deluge of acorns.

They're called acorn woodpeckers for a reason.

Here's a sample of what they've done to an abandoned house near me.

[Historic NY]

17. Looks like it was shot up with a machine gun.

[NV Whino]

20. If you look closely, you'll see acorns stuffed in many of the holes.

[OnionPatch]

15. If it's California it could be woodpeckers.

Acorn woodpeckers to be exact. They like to stuff acorns in crevasses.

Either way, I feel sorry for the animals who just lost their whole winter supply of food.

[DawgHouse]

16. Oh man, someone worked hard to gather all of those!

[Warren DeMontague]

18. You put a big round acorn storage device up there on a tree-like pole, whaddaya expect?

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. Wow

[Fla_Democrat]

21. Hammy

[kentauros]

22. Damn.

I thought for sure I was going to see popped acorns spilling out of that microwave antenna