Quantum pairs of little mice forming at the event horizon of a vanagon,
leading to mice escaping from anti-mice, appearing inside your van?

It baffles science. See "Hawking radiation," your answer may lie there.

(Do Vanagons have event horizons? I know my sock drawer does.)

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR

On 8/3/2008 5:30 PM ken fischman wrote:

> Couldn't find postings on this important subject so here goes.
> Was camping in our 87 Westfalia near the Escalante River in southern Utah
> last May when we returned from an overnight backpack to find the food in our
> pantry (under the sink) ravaged by unknown assailants; small turds indicated
> mice. So the rest of the trip we had mousetraps set and they would go off
> randomly as food shifted during the drive, but no mouse. Left the baited
> traps in for weeks after we returned home to Boise but still nothing.
> So now, 2 months later, we leave the van parked at the portage into Murtle
> Lake in Wells Gray Park in BC. When we returned the 2 pounds of peanuts in
> the shell we had in the pantry looked like they had been run over by a large
> truck. Devastation. Heartbreak.
> Two theories. It was the same mouse who had gone into a state of
> semi-hibernation waiting for food supply to return. Or two, new mouse,
> attracted to the smell of peanuts wafting through the air and he gained
> access to our pantry . . . how?
> This is the question I pose. Anybody with thoughts on how a small rodent
> gets from outside to inside, and we are sure he/she didn't come through the
> door. Are there openings under the van we should be trying to close off?
> They couldn't climb up the side and come through the fridge vent and then to
> the food? Rest of the trip south, no sign of mouse.
> Any ideas greatly appreciated.
> Jerry
> Boise, Idaho
>