Watch out for mice.....OMG!!!

[Kamakiri]

Picked up this sad little 1953 Sylvania on Craigslist for $20. Kinda cute, right?

Well know what WASN'T CUTE?!?!?! THE FAMILY OF MICE STILL LIVING IN THE @#$% THING!!!

I bring it in the basement, check the picture tube, looks good, then I unbolt and slide out the chassis. Tip it over, and OMFG THERE ARE LIVE MICE INSIDE!!! A mom and 6 or 7 babies!!! I FREAKED!!! GAAAAHHHHH!!!!

Dropped the chassis PROMPTLY on the workbench, and thank God, none escaped.

Luckily, I have the most wonderful wife in the world, who helped me engineer a plan to get the chassis filled with mice, outside, and released. Not once mouse in the house, and the set is now halfway through a re-cap. Kinda HAD to, after that debacle.

In 30 years of dragging stuff like this home, this was a first. I will never again assume that mouse nests in sets aren't live ones