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Mouse filmed tidying man's shed every night
- underyx 3y agoI know this is standard headline grammar, but my god it was very hard to not read this as the mouse doing the filming every night. Specifically, filming a shed that belongs to a tidying man.
- tgv 3y agoIt's not standard headline grammar by definition. They do leave out function words (A mouse was), but in the same space, you could write: "Mouse tidying a man's shed every night secretly filmed." In which case "secretly" stands out as superfluous, because nobody expects you to inform the mouse beforehand.
- aliasxneo 3y agoImpressive. Maybe I can get it to train my kids :)
- underyx 3y agoProbably yet another mouse experiment that doesn’t transfer to humans.
- lowbloodsugar 3y agoLol. Oblig IN MICE.
- pyrophane 3y ago> It is not the first time he has come across an organised rodent. When living in Bristol in 2019, his friend reached out for help fixing up a night camera when another mouse was keeping their shed in order. I hate being one of those people who treats everything with suspicion, but he previously helped a friend who was also using a night vision camera to record a "tidying up" mouse?
- Retric 3y agoThe behavior is common, the only thing suspicious is calling it “tidying up” rather than nest building or whatever.
- Anthony-G 3y agoI was wondering where that quote came from as it’s not on the submitted Guardian article. I found it at https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67902966 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-67902966 I wouldn’t be overly suspicious. A wildlife enthusiast would be the in the right social circles if someone needed a night camera. Also, the mouse’s behaviour doesn’t seem to be too uncommon – just not well documented and/or recorded.
- graphe 3y agoThis is clickbait it's not tidying, it's just storing away items. Squirrels that cache things aren't tidying.
- Waterluvian 3y agoMan secretly filmed tidying bank’s vault every night.
- akira2501 3y agoAlso a simple misunderstanding about nest building strategies.
- djaychela 3y agoThat's as maybe, but it's doing a better job than my 17 year old son.
- TheNewsIsHere 3y agoAn alternative take is that it’s just a fun title for a cute thing that happened in someone’s shed.
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoFun is illegal on HN unless it involves programming
- Hnrobert42 3y agoObviously. But relax. It is nice to think about something fun for a change.
- Dylan16807 3y agoIf that squirrel is caching everything from an area in the same spot, then yes it is.
- preciousoo 3y agoI read a story about this but it was elves working for a shoemaker during the night instead
- ahazred8ta 3y ago♬ ♬ "Now we are jaunty gentlemen, Why should we ever work again?"
- nlitsme 3y agoMy cat seems to be doing the exact opposite: removing random objects from desks and shelves, and leaving them in random unreachable corners.
- irrational 3y agoWhat makes a corner unreachable?
- philipov 3y agoAlso typical cat behavior. It's where they go after they're bored of simply knocking things off tables.
- rob74 3y agoMaybe the cat is waiting for a mouse to come along and try to gather the objects?
- sarchertech 3y agoIt’s Hunca Munca! Incidentally that’s what we named our Roomba.
- andrewstuart 3y agoI'm heading to the pet store now to buy 20 mice. I'll let them out and every morning I want that kitchen looking spotless.
- doubled112 3y agoEvery crumb will be gone, only to be replaced by a small turd.
- fritzo 3y agoWhen my partner and I returned home after a 1 month trip, we discovered caches of 1cm food pellets (dog food?) in various places in our house: in one boot, in the pocket of one backpack, under our bedroom pillow, nestled between two couch cushions. The neatness made it seem mysterious: Did I forget I had stowed dog food in my backpack, and while packing let the backpack drip on our bed and couch? The boot is what gave it away as mousework.
- inreverse 3y agodid you break one up to check they weren't cocoons
- fritzo 3y agothey were kind of sponge-like with internal cavities, so it was clear they were not cocoons
- kridsdale1 3y agoThat was likely excrement.
- neom 3y agoI was sure this was going to be an article about a mouse making a short film about a guy cleaning his shed.
- hn_acker 3y agoNewspaper headline rules occasionally lead to syntatically ambiguous sentences [1], sometimes funny ones. In this case, the headline is a garden-path sentence [2]. Cutting out "to be" words (Mouse was filmed -> Mouse filmed) in headlines is called zero copula [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity#In_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity#In_headlin... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula#In_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula#In_English
- luke-stanley 3y agoI'm sorry, this time it was the other way around. If you want to talk about this, please reach out. We're never far. Squeak.
- jonplackett 3y agoNon-click bait heading: Mouse builds nests out of messy shed’s contents.
- esaym 3y agoYea seriously. Stuffing random junk in a random box. That is what they do....
- HackerThemAll 3y agoWonderful. I need 20 of them just for myself.
- rkagerer 3y agoI'd love to know wtf it did with that long, straw-like tube around the 1-minute mark... "I got big plans, George"
- nuc1e0n 3y agoSounds like a Womble infestation. If you check behind the shed you'll find Bernard Cribbins doing all the voices :P
- mattkevan 3y agoThe parents used to have a very meticulous rat living in their compost bin. It would carefully anrrange all the bits of food inside, chucking out the things it didn’t like. On particularly cold nights it would stuff used teabags into the gaps around the lid to block up the draughts.
- Cody_C 3y agoImagine how many times this happened way back when. You had no real way to prove it easily. I'd say that was the culprit of many people blaming gremlins gnomes and the like.
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- keybpo 3y agoLooks to be a serial mouse.
- rurban 3y agoMy cat organized her collection of mice corpses in a very properly aligned cemetery behind the stairs in our cellar. About 15 when we found it