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An elderly man in the United Kingdom found that plastic clips, nuts and bolts that he left lying on a shelf in his garden shed were mysteriously being put away in a box. He said he thought he “was going mad” and even feared it was a “ghost”. Stephen Mckears, a resident of Severn Beach, near Bristol decided to solve the mystery and installed cameras to find out how this was happening. And he discovered a tiny guest who was tidying up the shelf every night.
The 72-year-old told BBC News that the problem started mid-February when he found a screw among peanuts in the box. The peanuts were to be given to birds. Mckears said he removed the screw, but the next day there was “a load more in there”.
“I’ve been calling him Brexit Mouse because he’s been stockpiling for Brexit,” Mckears jokingly told the Metro tabloid.
Rodney Holbrook, 70, who helped set up the camera, however, has a different name for the rodent – Metal Mickey – and said he jumped at the chance to help because he had to ‘see the DIY mouse’ for himself.
The mouse didn’t just pick up tiny things but things double its size, and even heavy items, which left the pensioner perplexed at first.
People on the internet loved the helpful mouse. Some joked that it was a ghost mouse and wondered where they could find another one like it.
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