what have you found in a customers car?

That's so odd you mention this story.  I mentioned this thread to my boss today and he told me about a local mechanic shop finding a dead snake in the dash.   Aparently the customer came in because his heater/ac wasn't working, and they found a dead Python in the vents.  I'm still a bit skeptical of this, but aparently they have a picture of the snake being held by the guy who found it.  My next question was, why the heck would you hold up a dead snake for a picture? 

Hmmmm, I have found alot of what you guys have already mentioned. I have seen guns (keep in mind in Canada alot of handguns arent legal and even less legal to have in vehicles), knives, batons, bongs, many misc drugs, and I have also found a dead snake. Now onto the new ones, first things first I found a LIVE rat in a Cargo van. Guy wanted a deck and rear speakers installed. No preexisting rear speakers so we needed to run wires. I started pulling junk outta the back (he was a tradesman of somekind, I think a plumber but its been a while so I cant remember for sure). Anyways as im moving stuff I see this big ass rat run around in the back trying to hide somewhere. I instantly through everything back into the vehicle and got it the hell away from my bay. Customer came back in a  couple hours and asked if his vehicle was done. I just kinda laughed a little and told him about his furry hitch hiker. I told him to comeback when he was verman free and he seemed to understand.

The second was I was replacing a factory sub in an escalade a couple years ago and I pulled the rear panel off and out falls a brick of cash, Im guessing in the area of 10,000 but I wasnt gonna count it cause I didnt wanna touch it. This definatly wasnt money that came from the bank, it had been "collected" I covered it up and went on the floor to find the customer, I told him he had to come to the back immediatly. He came back and I pulled the cover off his money and his reaction, I swear was, oh damn, I forgot that I had that. HE FORGOT WHERE HE LEFT TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. I just kinda shook my head. He called his freind to come down and pick it up and I finished the install up. Needless to say I got a hefty tip for my honesty. I wouldnt steal to start with and even less likely to steal from a damn dealer.

The third one I have to add, and this one might be my favorite was my buddies were up here a few months ago for a bachlor party so needless to say we went to a strip club. Well the strippers get stereo work done basically as soon as the keys for their vehicles land in their hands. There are a couple places they go, my shop is one of them. So anyways during the course of the night we had aquired this three foot stuffed pig and had taken him to the club with us because, it only made sense to do so ;) Well that damn pig was a hit and by the end of the night there were plenty of pictures taken with us, the pig and a variety of strippers. So about a week later a girl had her jeep booked in for a full system and when she showed up I reconized her immediatly as one of the strippers from that night (my personal favorite at that) but she didnt reconize me as being one of the "Pig Crew" although she said that I looked familiar I just played dumb. So anyways we work on this vehicle and we drop the glovebox out to access the antenna plug (all the installers now what I am talking about) and she has a ton of polaroids in there. We start looking because we are of course guys and she is a stripper with stripper friends. Well as one of my guys is flipping through I hear him let out a loud "HOLY doodie" and I walk over and take a look. She has in her Glove box a picture of her, the pig and me. I start laughing my ass off at this point and think that is just too perfect. So now we have the job finished and I just have to do something with this. I take the picture and taped it on her rear view mirror and placed this 3 foot pig that was still in my car at the time in her back seat (tinted windows so she did not see it at first). We normally dont let customers back their vehicles out of the shop but this was a special occasion. She came to get her vehicle and she crawled in. She didnt see the picture at first so she turned around to leave and when she saw the pig in the back seat she screamed because it scared her and she quickly whipped around to look out front. I am standing in front with my arms crossed leaning against my bench laughing a little bit and thats when she saw the picture on the mirror she took it down and stared at the picture, than at me then back at the pig and the light finally came on (it took a while,she was blond after all). She laughed about it and drove off with the pig still in the back seat, I wasnt too crushed to loose said pig as it was worth it for the joke.