The squirrel that shut down my charging station for 3 hours

Last Tuesday I pulled up to a public charger downtown around 6pm. Plugged in, went to grab coffee, came back to find the car not charging and a weird clicking noise. Looked under the station and a squirrel had stuffed a whole acorn into the ventilation slot. Took a maintenance guy 20 minutes with pliers to fish it out. Has anyone else had wildlife mess with their charging setup?

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henderson.mila24d ago

Honestly, that sounds more funny than annoying to me lol. Squirrels are just doing their thing, they don't know it's a charging station. Last month a bird dropped a whole twig nest thing into my home charger port and I had to pick it out piece by piece. Kind of a pain but also just nature being nature, you know?

terryr4624d ago

Yeah I used to get all annoyed when stuff like that happened, like man why does it always have to be my car. But honestly seeing it from your side makes me think I was being a little too uptight about it. It's not like the squirrels or birds are doing it on purpose or anything, they're just living their lives. And really picking a nest out of a charger port sounds way worse than what I dealt with, so I guess I can't complain too much. Still a pain in the moment but I guess it's just part of having stuff outside.