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Mouse Builds Expensive Nest Inside ATM

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A mouse snuck into an ATM at a gas station in eastern Oregon and made what had to have been an adorable little home out of sixteen $20 bills. Nobody knows how Scrooge McMouse got into the ATM, but after giving the station attendant a good scare, he was fished out of his money pit and set free.

The mouse, discovered Thursday, had thoroughly torn up two bills and damaged another 14 to line his nest. Employee Millie Taylor says she screamed and slammed the machine's door shut.

The bank replaced all the money that wasn't extensively damaged, and the ATM has continued to work just fine.

The station will apparently not be renewing its limited-time special offer: free pet with every $320 withdrawal.

Mouse Builds Nest In ATM With $20 Bills [AP]

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Hahahahahaha Amazing image Carey. Please transfer your modjo to Laura and Chris when you leave. We need that here on the consumerists :D

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Note to self: Train common field mouse to infiltrate local ATM and confiscate large denominations of cash.

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unfortunately, the mouse had taken out an ARM, so in three years he'll have to line his nest with $50's.

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can someone post a link of what the internals of ATM look like?

I'd love to see how it got ahold of the cash as I would expect it to be in a separate area that's shielded from the rest of the machine.

and how does an ATM have enough free space for a mouse to make it their home and make a nest there??

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@AppleAlex: A mouse only requires a hole large enough to get it's skull through, as it's the largest solid part of their body.And yes, the cash is usually stored INSIDE the ATM machine, as having it outside would require a separate locked enclosure, as well as an armored transfer path between the two.

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@Verucalise-WelcomeBethany: You should also teach them to ride a motorcycle to make a get-a-way. Or train two, one being a specalist in theft, and the other a "driver".

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@GitEmSteveDave_HasAList: I mean like inside but in a plastic locked box connected to the cash slot, just a separate area that a mouse would have to eat through for quite a while to access

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That's cute. They should name him AIG... or maybe Mouse of America due to the excessive fees.

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@AppleAlex: I'm pretty sure that time is one thing a mouse has a lot of. It's not like he's workin a 9-5 or anything.

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@AppleAlex: There was no need to design a separate, hard-to-get-at container for the cash -- until now.

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@MikeM_inMD: yea I should've figured ATMs weren't built to be mouseproof. so he damaged US currency, isn't that illegal?

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@AppleAlex: Only if he then tried to pass it off as a higher denomination bill.

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@GitEmSteveDave_HasAList: That would be way too adorable to stop.

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So you have mice robbing ATM's, cats downloading porn [gizmodo.com] , what's next?

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@Alexander Saites: I never understood how you go about making a link into words like you did, how is that done?

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@href="#c14673055">GitEmSteveDave_HasAList: Beverly Cleary might know a little something about that.

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@AppleAlex: It's HTML. You see the @AppleAlex at the beginning of this post? The stuff that appears in the text box when you actually reply to me is an HTML tag. In essence, it creates an object that is a http reference to a page. The closing tag is what stops it from being all hyper-linked.

So, (replace the '(' with open brace):
Text (a href="url">Text(/a> Text

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You guys are all falling for it! He got caught in the act of installing a credit card skimmer, and now he's trying to play cute.

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At least now we know what our money will be good for in a few years.

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Not pony tails or cotton tails but Mouse Tales! WOO-OOO!

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Actually, this shouldn't be a loss at all! You can send damaged or mutilated money to the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing and some hapless government employee or contractor will figure out what's there and send you a nice check to you as a replacement!

I think they need to recover enough of the bills to identify it. (ie. three corners and one serial number, or two serial numbers, etc)

More details here: [www.bep.treas.gov]

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@OMG! Conies!: You seem to have deleted an angle bracket and an a somehow.

Clearly it is the comment systems fault. Not some accidental mangling of html.

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The mouse did not "snuck", he sneaked.

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I'm disaspionted in the lack of pictures of the nest. We've seen bird's nests made out of odd things. A mouse nest out of 20s would be pretty awesome.

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@Smashville: I think a mouse would say sneaked, snook or Shneeked. Snuck is not nearly cute enough.

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@JustinSane07: nah, mouse nests are more a pile/ball of crap instead of the neat, cup like bird nest we're all used to.