I remember going to a Rolling Stones concert and looking across the arena and seeing hundreds of balding heads. This is why I wear a baseball cap to all concerts now.
Or the band going down to hip issues I swear that year the stones did the halftime show at the Super Bowl you could hear their bones popping over the radio mics
"Gladys, come here! That crazy car guy has his garage open at 5 am, and he's running around like a madman with a stick and a whistle! Call 911 -- he's finally gone completely off his rocker! I *knew* that would happen sooner or later!"
A few years ago after my husband died I went to an outdoor rock concert with my daughter. I love all of the new music. Was on the edge of the most pit, went crowd surfing, danced and sang to my hearts content. When my favorite band played I was against the barriers and the crowd pushing forward was literally crushing my 5'2", 120 pound elderly body. A wonderful, huge tatted, bearded man came and stood behind me, holding people away from me and saved my life, for real. Never got to really thank him but his actions, not the concert, was the highlight of the experience. Still think of him frequently. Best concert ever.
I'm 72, still go to heavy metal shows. Except now, I can afford the really good seats. People at these shows generally are great. I don't get in the mosh pit anymore. In the past I've been picked up a few times after getting knocked down in the pit.
Why would you do that at your age? My friend had the same thing happen to her at 20 yrs old, at a Metallica concert. 30,000 people pushing her against the rail. The compression broke her ribs, she passed out over the rail with her body pinned behind the rail. Security came & couldn't pull her out. A big guy fought his way over, held the crowd back as best he could, security pulled her over & I climbed out after her. She had to be revived. She almost died. She had bruises all over her back, and from her chest all the way down to her feet, giant black bruises from the rail. I don't go in the front at large concerts anymore, it's not wise.
I also had a mouse run up the shifter, up my arm, and down my shirt, into my pants and started biting me. I took out half a dozen mailboxes, flipped over, and ended up having to get rabies shots for the next several months. Sick as a dog the whole time. Then the single shot with no side effects came out. A decade later, this was the basic story of a Bevis and Butthead episode. Turns out, the writer got his mailbox destroyed by a guy who got bit by a mouse driving by his house. That HAD to have been me.
There is no way that this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any other way out. He's got to be stopped. And I have to stop him.
Many years ago a friend of mine was doing his Saturday yard work. The yard wasn't large so he had a basic push mower in the shed. He pulls it out, sets the throttle and gives the starter cord a good solid yank. The engine makes about a quarter turn and goes THUNK. A black head with a tuft of white fur on top pokes out through the grass chute. My friend immediate runs across his yard at top speed. Meanwhile the skunk works himself out of the chute and looks at the lawn mower. After a few seconds he absolutely hoses it down. After the thorough dousing with skunk stink, the skunk looks over the royal mess he made. After a few seconds consideration, he hoses the mower down again. And then with the arrogance only skunks can have, he marches off into the woods behind the house. To put it another way, there IS in fact worse. There's always worse.
The mental image of Steve at six in the morning yelling "Get off my lawn!" to a woodchuck is precious. I keep a Have a Heart live trap for such situations. Small animals love to chew automobile wiring and also like to make nests in areas like engine air filter boxes. Given the short amount of time before you evicted the woodchuck you probably handled the situation before any damage to your vehicles occurred.
It's a natural skill. No one wants to listen to me tell a story every day online 😂 I wouldn't listen to this story by 98% of story tellers. But I enjoyed it
This has been a fabulously entertaining tale of woe. As a resident of a semi-rural neighbourhood on the side of a lake at the base of a mountain, we encounter all sorts of creatures. I recently had to seal up a couple of small holes on the firewall of my car to keep little critters from getting inside. We have a bear or two wander through every year, plus dozens of Trash Bandit Raccoons...4 different species of squirrels, with grays in predominance. With no lawn, and a fully bush covered lot, I guess we are just asking for visits by wildlife.
I have an air compressor that I use with a long air wand for chasing critters out of nooks and crannies when they end up trying to set up home in places like my shop or garage. Hitting a hiding critters with an unexpected blast of air can have some comical results. Once, I placed it under a bench with a low shelf and when I hit the air, it jumped straight up 4 feet and took off 90 degrees at the top of its jump. It looked like the air had blown them that high, but I know that is not physically possible. Any way, after a bit of chasing with air, they get very interested in using the way out I have left them.
Crazy story, I've got Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and when I was 22 or 23, I had this exact thing happen to me at a NIN show. I wound up hurling myself over the sound guy's booth. He helped me to the hallway and my best friend was able to get my hip back into the socket and we bounced right back into the pit!
What an awesome line up for a show. Prompted me to bust out my Ministry CD’s. Having said that people who would appreciate FLA, Gary Neuman, and Ministry might be approaching an age where their hip would give out. I am NOT saying we are old though. Rock on Steve!
Oh what a funny story...thanks for sharing this! Racoons, coyotes, and skunks arounds here 30 miles South of Portland, OR. Some great stories.. Talk soft, give them room... I could see taking in a family of skunks. Talk soft :-) All you...contribute your critter-encounters to this channel ! Here's a start: Years ago, warm Summer nights and sleeping on the back porch. I'd been leaving the back door open all day and sometimes sleeping out. This skunk had been coming in the house and raiding the cat-food dish I didn't know about it... Middle of the night something jumps off of me and I was sure it was my cat saying 'I need food or water' but I got the headlamp on and it was a huge skunk in the middle of the drive-way. A year later I had 2 or 3 baby skunks (10" long) on the patio in the cat-food, and I slid the door open a couple inches. And I talked soft... Oh gosh cuteness!! Momma skunk thought it was an OK place to hang around?
There's a woodchuck telling his buddies that a Viper hissed at him so he hid under a Cobra. All while being chased by a lawyer. That's a messed up day for anyone!
I stopped attending concerts for many years after I ended up performing CPR in a men’s bathroom at a Neil Young concert. Luckily for me, and the poor young man who collapsed on the floor, the paramedics were close to the doors of the men’s restroom at the venue. I learned that performing CPR is a very physical exercise, especially if you do it for an extended period. I don’t think I was doing it for more than a couple of minutes, but it felt like forever. The experience kinda soured my desire to attend large public gatherings. BTW, the young man survived, it was an overdose situation. Lucky for him the paramedics were close and the hospital was just 5 minutes from the arena.
Good on you for looking out for a person in distress. My fair county built a new arena and at the first show one of the ushers collapsed in a back stage hallway near the artist dining room. Exiting from diner was Doug Paisley, EMT and father of headline performer Brad Paisley. Mr Doug performed CPR until the on site paramedics could reach them and take over. The usher ultimately survived the coronary problem and the quick response of both Paisley and on site staff likely saved his life.
My woodchuck story. My family used to have a cabin near a river on short stilts with a skirt. One weekend I heard this strange noise. I couldn't figure it out. After a couple of days, I found it was groundhog sleeping under the cabin. A big one. Snooring like a chainsaw.
I would love to sit down and have a long chat with you about life and sharing stories. I'm sure we would have a great time. You seem like a good person. Thanks for being you!
I live in a rural area and have a garage/shop about five miles down the road from the house. A barn cat had kittens at the house. One day I drive my car to the garage to get my truck (about 3 miles of the drive is highway). I put the car in the garage and drive the truck home. The next day I intend to switch vehicles again. I enter the shop, hear a meow and see one of the kittens run across the shop floor. That poor kitten must have hid somewhere in the engine compartment of my car and took a 5 mile ride (including highway speeds). I brought the kitten back home and reunited it with "mommy cat". I named the kitten "Trouble".
If you ever need other names, one is Catastrophe and another is Disaster. Right now I can't remember the name I called my nephew on occasion when he was little. He was the cutest little guy. Like Dennis the Menace. He meant no harm and he was so adorable.
I keep several Havahart live traps in different sizes for situations like you had. I had a possum infiltrate my home by getting into a crawlspace and then chewing through a bathroom wall. I captured her, she was pregnant and I relocated her, but she cost me a lot of money in repairs, because she also dug a massive cave under a slab looking for earthworms and caused the slab to tilt among other things. It was a mess.
How much of Steve Lehto’s wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck Steve Lehto’s wood. Your experience reminds me of every Woody Woodpecker cartoon. 😅
I saw Gary Numan perform many times back in the 1980's. But none of it was playing music. Gary was a qualified Air Show display Pilot. He also owned a North American AT6 Harvard, known as the Texan in the USA. He certainly put on a good display.
The most impressive part of this story is after all that ruckus in the garage, you were still able to go back to sleep for 3 more hours. Good for you Steve! Wish I had that super power. I've said this many times and I know you've heard it even more, but you're an amazing storyteller. Love listening about your experiences. You'd also make an amazing judge. I think people would listen. I know you have no interest in that, but you never know what the future holds.
I was leaving my campsite high up in the mountains when out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move. In the passenger footwell of my Rover was a small field mouse. I opened the door and yelled for him to get out, which he did. I drove back home without issue, cleaned out my off-road trailer and didn't see any signs of additional mice or damage. But the next weekend I was mowing the lawn, and on the neighbor's side of a mound in the yard was a mouse burrow. I think I relocated the mouse from the city to the forest without knowing it. I hope his wife and kids won't miss him.
I have an RV & after a trip to the high desert I kept hearing sounds...I set humane mouse trap...got a mouse. Instructions say release the mouse at least 2 miles away or they find their way back😮
I have woods behind my house, and I had two outdoor cats and a lockable cat flap. One night, I forgot to lock the flap, and suddenly we heard a racket downstairs. I go look and see my cat watching a family of four *raccoons* chowing down on a bag of dry cat food. I get a pot and lid and start banging away as close as I dare get to them, but they just look at me like I was crazy and keep eating. Finally, I managed to drive them back towards the basement long enough to open the back door and drag the cat food bag out and around to the garage. Deprived of their meal, they left.
Suggestion--put the cat-flap up high with a cat-ladder to it. By cat-ladder I mean an arrangement of climbing points that are easily negotiable by cats (and squirrels and small monkeys) but not much else that can fit through a cat-flap. Do it right and the raccoons won't even figure out that it's there. Monkeys aren't an issue in the US and squirrels generally avoid entrances that smell like cats.
Camping with kids they left some donuts out in a storage bin overnight instead of shut in the car where the were safe. Middle of the night the family of racoons eating the rest of the donuts woke everyone up. Then trying to get the racoons to leave camp wasn't easy.
There were uninvited strangers in your house and you deprived them of the free meal and so they left. Hmmm. That's a very interesting story you are telling. I'm just wondering how else, and where else, that lesson might work.
When he said ministry I thought "hm, didnt picture him as a church type, he never mentions it". Then i realized what he meant and thought "hm, didnt picture him as the heavy metal type"
You'll have to visit England then you can do both have a Rave in the Nave at Camterbury Cathedral or I believe they have a beer festival coming up there next.
Thanks for choosing this channel for sharing the story of your day; it was a great change to get a funny story with no drama - not that your stories are too dramatic.
I"ve had some weird animal incidents. I live out in the country. I have a dog that is outside unless it's way cold... he hates inside so he's on a big runner and has access to porch if raining and stuff... I walk out one morning to feed him and a person's horse from down the road was standing on my porch eating the dog food!!! Obviously got out. Another time wife and I were watching TV late at night and we our door knob making noises like someone was trying to get in and messing with lock. So grabbed my 45 and went and opened door quick with gun in hand. It was a raccoon on top of my garbage can messing with the door! I let him live.
I work for a security company and have worked and studied crowd situations like at concerts like this. General admission shows like this scare me because of overcrowding. The industry standard is each person needs seven square feet of space to be safe. If you can't easily raise your hands over your head without them bumping into another person, you are too closely packed in. This is dangerous and you should consider getting out of there. I have missed more than one concert I really wanted to see because they were general admission.
I've watched some of these disaster documentary short videos on RUclips, and the crowd crush disaster is one scenario. The General Admission problem can be one of the causes. Many places don't do general admission because of the risks, but I guess some places don't learn from the mistakes of others. Fascinating Horror just did one on a giant public picnic put on by Tsar Nicholas where things went wrong like this. The seven square feet of space probably explains why there are so many bad behavior incidents on airliners these days.
I thought the point at which a crowd becomes dangerous is about 5-6 people per square meter. 7 square feet per person seems like a low safety threshold to me, as that is about 1.54 people per square meter. I bet many seated venues are more dense than that
@@kolmogorovaxiom1493Yes, many seated venues probably are more dense than seven square feet per person. But I think what makes that still safer is that being seated people aren't pushing up against each other forcing the closest people into the stage. But it's a good thought. You can have overcrowded conditions both ways.
First he hid under the Viper, then the Cobra, then the Delorean, then the Ferrari, then the Bentley, and finally he settled under the military Duce. Must have been a veteran woodchuck.
Don't let them make a burrow. They are very difficult to dis-lodge once they make one. We used to go looking for the holes they make in the pasture because it's dangerous for horses to step in a hole like that. They will just dig around anything you use to plug the holes, or dig them back out if you fill them with dirt.
@@mrcryptozoic817 An experienced lady once told me in a whisper that a human turd at the entrance of the borrow also works. I haven't tried that myself
Thank you for reminding me that Gary Neumann was still putting out music. Savage is a good album! It truly is a weird day when a video about a lawyer and his woodchuck leads me to music I have not heard. 😆
I had a similar incident with a hummingbird in my garage. I could not coerce it to leave over an hour or more. Long story short, I brought a hanging flower basket into the garage, when the sun hit them, it flew like dart to them and I walked it and the flower basket out.
My friend had a racoon get into her house. Her husband shot it with a shotgun of all things when the police refused to come. It wrecked everything in the room, including the piano. Blood, brains and guts all over the place. Insurance refused to pay because he was so stupid, I guess, and he got a ticket from the cops for firing a gun so close to a dwelling. Judge laughed at him, but he got a huge fine but no jail time. What a dope.
Why he'd go so far? Was it aggressive or something? The racoons I've seen on RUclips have all been really lackdaisical and you can just kind of poke them out with a broom stick.
@DKNguyen3.1415 I've had problems with raccoons that came right up to me that I couldn't scare off. Usually, it's because someone has been feeding them, but you can't know for certain that they don't have rabies. It's illegal to feed them for good reason. Animals get way too bold, and potentially dangerous when they get used to people feeding them.
It's easy to get it out. Leave a trail of crunchy snacks to the open door. Go to a room nearby and quietly wait for the crunching. When he gets near the door, chase him out.
That woodchuck will be back- guaranteed! My boys, grandsons live in the country here in Michigan and are plagued with these critters in our buildings doing damage to our equipment and buildings. Lacking a good farm dog, we use Connibear 220 traps and the groundhogs and racoons keep them Filled! Hate to do it, but life on the farm is not an easy life.
I once had a squirrel that got down into my fireplace from the chimney. He managed to get the cover doors open and proceeded to knock EVERY breakable item off of EVERY shelf/table in the room. I usually put on oven mitts and grab the invasive squirrels but this one was very aggressive, so I sent my dog in. The dog herded the squirrel out of the house.
We had a flying squirrel come down our chimney. He didn’t do any damage though. We discovered it the next morning sitting next to our parrot on top of the cage. Guess he felt safe there.
You lucky Lheto! I cornered a GroundHog outside our garage, and approached him with the same stick you used. He barred his teeth with a hideous growl (the same one you used), and with 10 extended claws threatened me to leave him alone forever! - - I backed away and called my lawyer.
I'd certainly do a good look around the foundation of your garage to see if he lives under it, or has another hole inside. We had some living under a shed on our property. We just let them stay there, but that was a shed with junk in it, not a garage with fine automobiles.
Woodchuck back in the wood hood, telling his buddies how he strategically out maneuvered a cobra, a viper and some crazy lunatic with a stick and whistle!! My crazy day.
I think Steve just wanted us to know he lived in an expensive development, with a huge lawn and he's got a cobra and several expensive cars.. oh and likes hard rock. Lol.
@@stevelehto I’m SO glad you didn’t take my comment in a way I didn’t intend. But seriously, if a rodent spent an unsupervised 12 - 16 hours with my cars….😳😵🤢🤮 I honestly already have nightmares about my Datsun 240Z leaving my wife stranded! My only recurring dream!
I've chased a few trespassing wild animals to drive the point home. But I'm usually at the point where I can only yell "Blaughlaughlagh!" And similar. Makes no difference to a woodchuck.
Back in the 80s, I went to start my dad's station wagon, not knowing a woodchuck was under the engine. Poor thing bent the alt bracket and made a mess of the pully system.
I can definitely identify with your woodchuck problem! I have a used Dodge pickup I use for Hawkins g stuff for yard work and working on my house. About 10 years ago I had a squirrel take up residence in one of the spaces above the wheels in the front fender. The squirt neatly totaled the truck! It ate through 3 different wiring harnesses, spark plug cables, coolant overflow tank, a bunch of sound insulation and a few other things. Overall did over $5000 worth of damage, getting close to what the truck was worth! Sure glad I had comprehensive insurance!
Check for holes in ground around your home. Wood chucks will continue to tunnel under your concrete floor and they will DESTROY the pad causing the concrete to crack and break and cause uneven floor. My boss had this happen and the broken concrete PCs had settled so bad he couldn't even pull into garage.
An acquaintance of mine was unloading her car after a trip to the supermarket. Unbeknownst to her, a squirrel entered her car while she was indoors. She returned to her car to bring indoors the second load of groceries and locked her car -- locking the squirrel in the car overnight. Next morning she opened her car to leave for work -- and the squirrel jumped out and ran away. But the interior of the car was completely vandalized: the squirrel had tried to escape by gnawing through the door panels, arm rests, ... everything.
Strangest part of this story "pawprints on an ATV I own." Would never in a million years have pictured Steve on an ATV. Missed opportunity to find out how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck would.
I know. While I like Gary Numan I would love to see FLA again. Ministry is sometimes great but I prefer the the 90's version. He didn't state if he left after GN though or stayed and watched Ministry.
I married into an amazing collection of muscle cars. 66 Vette 427 performance package. One owner 69 Boss 429. Numbers Matching Chevelles. L89 Camaro. No bs. Wife has a soft spot for cats. Rescues them. Feeds strays. No mice in our 7 garages. However, I about lost it when I saw cat prints all over these 6 figure cars. Doesn’t bother my wife at all. I have learned to live with the cat prints. About lost my mind the first few times I caught cats in one of the garages just chilling on one of the all original classics.
My problem is crows. I live in a multi home property, on the top floor/attic. - It's an old building, and has absolutely no insulation under the roof. So in cold weather the heat from the three homes, mine and the two others beneath, pass straight throw the roof. Crows and other birds love this. Crows are BIG birds with big claws. Noisy MFers !
I live in a RV, the crows/ravens love to come around when I'm cooking and dance on my roof! I don't usually hear them land, but when they start moving around it's like being inside a drum!
@@DKNguyen3.1415 peanut butter. The key ingredient to a better mousetrap. 5gal bucket with upside down stainless bowl in just enough water to not wash away the pb. Farm country life.
@@darrinrebagliati5365 Doesn't work. The mice have learned to avoid all that about a year ago. Yes, they have learned to avoid buckets, traps, peanut butter and combinations thereof, and were never interested in bowls. They've even learned to not enter the house proper. The live only between the walls and the outside. To be honest, I am not sure how they learned to avoid the bucket traps so quickly. Only one bucket ever got mice and it got four of them in the first week it was put out, then never again. I ended up needing to use poison, but even then the mice in my house particular aren't falling for it. The poison I put on next to my neighbour's house gets eaten all the time but the poison next to my house...nothing. Similarly, the only traps that ever catch mice are the one I put next to my neighbour's house. The traps next to mine never catch anything. And I always wear gloves and de-scent traps.
"Here in Steve's car, I feel safest of all..."
It's the only way to live!
😅😂
Brilliant
Munch. Munch Munch
Chew. CHEW Chew
In cars! 🎶🎸🎶🤘
You know you're getting older when you're at a concert and fans are going down due to hip issues. 👴
I remember going to a Rolling Stones concert and looking across the arena and seeing hundreds of balding heads. This is why I wear a baseball cap to all concerts now.
😄🏆🙂
i guess he really needed a hip op......
Or the band going down to hip issues
I swear that year the stones did the halftime show at the Super Bowl you could hear their bones popping over the radio mics
Free membership for Life Alert with purchase of ticket.
And the woodchuck is telling his friends, “I had the strangest day”
Now, that was funny!
Yeah, you nailed it.😅
LMAO 🤣
Bingo! 😂
And to top it off, I get a restraining order not to return to that property.
A viper then a cobra. I think the woodchuck thinks it's a mongoose....
Good one! 🙂
Haha didn't think of that, good point
badoom tish!
Clever😊
"Gladys, come here! That crazy car guy has his garage open at 5 am, and he's running around like a madman with a stick and a whistle! Call 911 -- he's finally gone completely off his rocker! I *knew* that would happen sooner or later!"
lololololololol!!!!
Gladys already at the widow with the binoculars.
I was expecting him to say the cops were called as a neighbour heard a car started at 4am then a loud whistle 😂😂😂
@@wintersun398 It's always something at the Lehto place!
Aaabner !! Abner !! Come quick!! I knew there was something weird going on across the street!
A few years ago after my husband died I went to an outdoor rock concert with my daughter. I love all of the new music. Was on the edge of the most pit, went crowd surfing, danced and sang to my hearts content. When my favorite band played I was against the barriers and the crowd pushing forward was literally crushing my 5'2", 120 pound elderly body. A wonderful, huge tatted, bearded man came and stood behind me, holding people away from me and saved my life, for real. Never got to really thank him but his actions, not the concert, was the highlight of the experience. Still think of him frequently. Best concert ever.
ROCK ON, GRANNY.
I'm 72, still go to heavy metal shows. Except now, I can afford the really good seats.
People at these shows generally are great. I don't get in the mosh pit anymore. In the past I've been picked up a few times after getting knocked down in the pit.
Never done that. The heaviest I ever got was the Crue in 89. And that was from the cheap seats. Time marches on.
Guardian Angel's come in all shapes and sizes! You never can tell.....
Stay awesome!!!! 😊
Why would you do that at your age? My friend had the same thing happen to her at 20 yrs old, at a Metallica concert. 30,000 people pushing her against the rail. The compression broke her ribs, she passed out over the rail with her body pinned behind the rail. Security came & couldn't pull her out. A big guy fought his way over, held the crowd back as best he could, security pulled her over & I climbed out after her. She had to be revived. She almost died. She had bruises all over her back, and from her chest all the way down to her feet, giant black bruises from the rail. I don't go in the front at large concerts anymore, it's not wise.
"Why did the lawyer chase a woodchuck with a stick?" Sounds like the windup before a bad joke 😂
To get to the outside? ^-^
It would be a great story to tell a judge when your late for court. Your honor, I can explain..you see there was this woodchuck.
to sue its nuts off.
So he wouldn't bury the evidence.
To establish whether a wood chuck *could* chuck wood (and eventually how much, presumably)
I also had a mouse run up the shifter, up my arm, and down my shirt, into my pants and started biting me. I took out half a dozen mailboxes, flipped over, and ended up having to get rabies shots for the next several months. Sick as a dog the whole time. Then the single shot with no side effects came out. A decade later, this was the basic story of a Bevis and Butthead episode. Turns out, the writer got his mailbox destroyed by a guy who got bit by a mouse driving by his house. That HAD to have been me.
Shadow of the Collosus
Thank you for your sacrifice for us 90s teens, I think I vaguely remember that episode!
Damn
Rod Munch
It ran up your shifter … I swear I thought I read shitter.
The one where Steve channels his inner Bill Murray, so he's got that going for him, which is nice.
FREEZE GOPHER!! :)
Hi there, just Mr. Rabbit, not plastic explosive or anything... ^-^
There is no way that this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don't see any other way out. He's got to be stopped. And I have to stop him.
@@jeromethiel4323 & Mr. Squirrel
That was a gopher not a woodchuck!
Many years ago a friend of mine was doing his Saturday yard work. The yard wasn't large so he had a basic push mower in the shed. He pulls it out, sets the throttle and gives the starter cord a good solid yank. The engine makes about a quarter turn and goes THUNK.
A black head with a tuft of white fur on top pokes out through the grass chute. My friend immediate runs across his yard at top speed. Meanwhile the skunk works himself out of the chute and looks at the lawn mower. After a few seconds he absolutely hoses it down.
After the thorough dousing with skunk stink, the skunk looks over the royal mess he made. After a few seconds consideration, he hoses the mower down again. And then with the arrogance only skunks can have, he marches off into the woods behind the house.
To put it another way, there IS in fact worse. There's always worse.
Gd savage
Steve you have the gift - you could talk about paint drying and still have us hooked.
The mental image of Steve at six in the morning yelling "Get off my lawn!" to a woodchuck is precious. I keep a Have a Heart live trap for such situations. Small animals love to chew automobile wiring and also like to make nests in areas like engine air filter boxes. Given the short amount of time before you evicted the woodchuck you probably handled the situation before any damage to your vehicles occurred.
I swear Steve’s college students were the luckiest people in the world. I could listen to him, read the encyclopedia and be entertained.!
It's a natural skill. No one wants to listen to me tell a story every day online 😂 I wouldn't listen to this story by 98% of story tellers. But I enjoyed it
@@96cobrakid
I hear ya - my kids especially!
This has been a fabulously entertaining tale of woe. As a resident of a semi-rural neighbourhood on the side of a lake at the base of a mountain, we encounter all sorts of creatures. I recently had to seal up a couple of small holes on the firewall of my car to keep little critters from getting inside. We have a bear or two wander through every year, plus dozens of Trash Bandit Raccoons...4 different species of squirrels, with grays in predominance. With no lawn, and a fully bush covered lot, I guess we are just asking for visits by wildlife.
I enjoyed every minute of your strange day. Now I feel better knowing people like you suffer from these events also.
God Bless You. 🤗❤️
I have an air compressor that I use with a long air wand for chasing critters out of nooks and crannies when they end up trying to set up home in places like my shop or garage. Hitting a hiding critters with an unexpected blast of air can have some comical results. Once, I placed it under a bench with a low shelf and when I hit the air, it jumped straight up 4 feet and took off 90 degrees at the top of its jump. It looked like the air had blown them that high, but I know that is not physically possible. Any way, after a bit of chasing with air, they get very interested in using the way out I have left them.
Tomorrow Steve will wake to Sonny and Cher on the radio and relive it all again!
Brilliant !
🎵"I got you, babe!"🎶
‘Just stand me up & I’ll be fine’ belongs on a t-shirt.
That's what Bernie said before his weekend... 😉
LOL!! I agree with the t-shirt idea.
Some assembly required lol
Great story. Much better than the news with my coffee this morning, thanks for sharing!
Steve could tell a story about making a bowl of oatmeal sound captivating. This guy is the best storyteller on youtube.
Neighbor across the way watching all of this with a pair of binoculars, "He's doing it again, Gladys! I swear that boy's on the dope!"
LMAO. 😆😆
there's always at least one Gladys in the neighborhood ...
I remember Mrs. Kravitz.
A leaf blower is helpful at chasing critters out of the garage.
@poker345611 That was my first thought.
imaging seeing Lehto at 6am swing a wood stick and yelling "get off my lawn/garage!" at seemly empty area is the mental image I needed for today XD
Glad to hear the concert staff had their act together. I hope the old man is OK.
My name is Ruin. It all began with you.
That’s one of the best “get off of my lawn” stories I’ve heard in a while.
I request a transcript of all words uttered outdoors during this story ✊
Now, just hold on a minute there.
There might be some legal work that can be done
@@mattwhaley1865 Is this a FOIA request?
Crazy story, I've got Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and when I was 22 or 23, I had this exact thing happen to me at a NIN show. I wound up hurling myself over the sound guy's booth. He helped me to the hallway and my best friend was able to get my hip back into the socket and we bounced right back into the pit!
What an awesome line up for a show. Prompted me to bust out my Ministry CD’s. Having said that people who would appreciate FLA, Gary Neuman, and Ministry might be approaching an age where their hip would give out. I am NOT saying we are old though. Rock on Steve!
Oh what a funny story...thanks for sharing this! Racoons, coyotes, and skunks arounds here 30 miles South of Portland, OR. Some great stories.. Talk soft, give them room... I could see taking in a family of skunks. Talk soft :-) All you...contribute your critter-encounters to this channel
! Here's a start:
Years ago, warm Summer nights and sleeping on the back porch. I'd been leaving the back door open all day and sometimes sleeping out. This skunk had been coming in the house and raiding the cat-food dish I didn't know about it... Middle of the night something jumps off of me and I was sure it was my cat saying 'I need food or water' but I got the headlamp on and it was a huge skunk in the middle of the drive-way. A year later I had 2 or 3 baby skunks (10" long) on the patio in the cat-food, and I slid the door open a couple inches. And I talked soft... Oh gosh cuteness!! Momma skunk thought it was an OK place to hang around?
There's a woodchuck telling his buddies that a Viper hissed at him so he hid under a Cobra. All while being chased by a lawyer. That's a messed up day for anyone!
I stopped attending concerts for many years after I ended up performing CPR in a men’s bathroom at a Neil Young concert. Luckily for me, and the poor young man who collapsed on the floor, the paramedics were close to the doors of the men’s restroom at the venue. I learned that performing CPR is a very physical exercise, especially if you do it for an extended period. I don’t think I was doing it for more than a couple of minutes, but it felt like forever. The experience kinda soured my desire to attend large public gatherings. BTW, the young man survived, it was an overdose situation. Lucky for him the paramedics were close and the hospital was just 5 minutes from the arena.
Good on you for looking out for a person in distress.
My fair county built a new arena and at the first show one of the ushers collapsed in a back stage hallway near the artist dining room. Exiting from diner was Doug Paisley, EMT and father of headline performer Brad Paisley. Mr Doug performed CPR until the on site paramedics could reach them and take over. The usher ultimately survived the coronary problem and the quick response of both Paisley and on site staff likely saved his life.
A medic told me CPR only works about half the time, maybe less.
@@jguenther3049 VERY dependent on how long passes before it is started. Cause of the heart stoppage can also be a factor.
My woodchuck story. My family used to have a cabin near a river on short stilts with a skirt. One weekend I heard this strange noise. I couldn't figure it out. After a couple of days, I found it was groundhog sleeping under the cabin. A big one. Snooring like a chainsaw.
Aftering watching then read the comments just made my day. Laughing out loud in my house with no one else here. Thanks Steve...
Glad you had a good time at the Tragically Hip show lol.
I would love to sit down and have a long chat with you about life and sharing stories. I'm sure we would have a great time. You seem like a good person. Thanks for being you!
I live in a rural area and have a garage/shop about five miles down the road from the house. A barn cat had kittens at the house. One day I drive my car to the garage to get my truck (about 3 miles of the drive is highway). I put the car in the garage and drive the truck home. The next day I intend to switch vehicles again. I enter the shop, hear a meow and see one of the kittens run across the shop floor. That poor kitten must have hid somewhere in the engine compartment of my car and took a 5 mile ride (including highway speeds). I brought the kitten back home and reunited it with "mommy cat". I named the kitten "Trouble".
If you ever need other names, one is Catastrophe and another is Disaster. Right now I can't remember the name I called my nephew on occasion when he was little. He was the cutest little guy. Like Dennis the Menace. He meant no harm and he was so adorable.
I keep several Havahart live traps in different sizes for situations like you had. I had a possum infiltrate my home by getting into a crawlspace and then chewing through a bathroom wall. I captured her, she was pregnant and I relocated her, but she cost me a lot of money in repairs, because she also dug a massive cave under a slab looking for earthworms and caused the slab to tilt among other things. It was a mess.
How much of Steve Lehto’s wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck Steve Lehto’s wood. Your experience reminds me of every Woody Woodpecker cartoon. 😅
🤣
How much wire could a wood chuck munch if a wood chuck got into he garage
I was looking for this reply.
seems i didnt read enough comments to dicscover this before i commented... chuck wood... lol well great minds think alike
Good one. As a kid, I thought that's just a fun cartoon. Much later I learned the real source of the gags.
I saw Gary Numan perform many times back in the 1980's. But none of it was playing music. Gary was a qualified Air Show display Pilot. He also owned a North American AT6 Harvard, known as the Texan in the USA. He certainly put on a good display.
The most impressive part of this story is after all that ruckus in the garage, you were still able to go back to sleep for 3 more hours. Good for you Steve! Wish I had that super power. I've said this many times and I know you've heard it even more, but you're an amazing storyteller. Love listening about your experiences. You'd also make an amazing judge. I think people would listen. I know you have no interest in that, but you never know what the future holds.
I was leaving my campsite high up in the mountains when out of the corner of my eye, I saw something move. In the passenger footwell of my Rover was a small field mouse. I opened the door and yelled for him to get out, which he did. I drove back home without issue, cleaned out my off-road trailer and didn't see any signs of additional mice or damage. But the next weekend I was mowing the lawn, and on the neighbor's side of a mound in the yard was a mouse burrow. I think I relocated the mouse from the city to the forest without knowing it. I hope his wife and kids won't miss him.
I have an RV & after a trip to the high desert I kept hearing sounds...I set humane mouse trap...got a mouse. Instructions say release the mouse at least 2 miles away or they find their way back😮
Didn't you read the book "Country Mouse and City Mouse"..
They get around out there.
I have woods behind my house, and I had two outdoor cats and a lockable cat flap.
One night, I forgot to lock the flap, and suddenly we heard a racket downstairs. I go look and see my cat watching a family of four *raccoons* chowing down on a bag of dry cat food.
I get a pot and lid and start banging away as close as I dare get to them, but they just look at me like I was crazy and keep eating.
Finally, I managed to drive them back towards the basement long enough to open the back door and drag the cat food bag out and around to the garage. Deprived of their meal, they left.
Suggestion--put the cat-flap up high with a cat-ladder to it. By cat-ladder I mean an arrangement of climbing points that are easily negotiable by cats (and squirrels and small monkeys) but not much else that can fit through a cat-flap. Do it right and the raccoons won't even figure out that it's there. Monkeys aren't an issue in the US and squirrels generally avoid entrances that smell like cats.
If you put the cat door 3' high with a shelf on each side, raccoons can't jump, but cats can, and then you don't have to lock it.
Camping with kids they left some donuts out in a storage bin overnight instead of shut in the car where the were safe.
Middle of the night the family of racoons eating the rest of the donuts woke everyone up. Then trying to get the racoons to leave camp wasn't easy.
There were uninvited strangers in your house and you deprived them of the free meal and so they left. Hmmm. That's a very interesting story you are telling. I'm just wondering how else, and where else, that lesson might work.
When he said ministry I thought "hm, didnt picture him as a church type, he never mentions it". Then i realized what he meant and thought "hm, didnt picture him as the heavy metal type"
You're more likely to see me at the concert than in church.
You'll have to visit England then you can do both have a Rave in the Nave at Camterbury Cathedral or I believe they have a beer festival coming up there next.
Some of the most hardcore metal bands are of Scandinavian origins
Jesus built his hotrod
Religious like an American that ignores all the 10 commandments and wages war and genocide in the name of Jesus?
Thanks for choosing this channel for sharing the story of your day; it was a great change to get a funny story with no drama - not that your stories are too dramatic.
Thank you for sharing this story. Started my Monday with a good laugh.
I"ve had some weird animal incidents. I live out in the country. I have a dog that is outside unless it's way cold... he hates inside so he's on a big runner and has access to porch if raining and stuff... I walk out one morning to feed him and a person's horse from down the road was standing on my porch eating the dog food!!! Obviously got out. Another time wife and I were watching TV late at night and we our door knob making noises like someone was trying to get in and messing with lock. So grabbed my 45 and went and opened door quick with gun in hand. It was a raccoon on top of my garbage can messing with the door! I let him live.
I was sleeping this morning, and all of a sudden, I heard this loud whistle! I live in Nebraska. 😮
Was it the 3:10 to Yuma?
Tornado siren practice...go back to sleep!
You know we're getting old when someone attending a concert of a musician of our youth collapses because his hip went out.
Security was prepared , for hip, knee and heart attacks, no problem.
Flashbacks to CaddyShack 😂
I work for a security company and have worked and studied crowd situations like at concerts like this. General admission shows like this scare me because of overcrowding. The industry standard is each person needs seven square feet of space to be safe. If you can't easily raise your hands over your head without them bumping into another person, you are too closely packed in. This is dangerous and you should consider getting out of there. I have missed more than one concert I really wanted to see because they were general admission.
I've watched some of these disaster documentary short videos on RUclips, and the crowd crush disaster is one scenario. The General Admission problem can be one of the causes. Many places don't do general admission because of the risks, but I guess some places don't learn from the mistakes of others. Fascinating Horror just did one on a giant public picnic put on by Tsar Nicholas where things went wrong like this.
The seven square feet of space probably explains why there are so many bad behavior incidents on airliners these days.
I thought the point at which a crowd becomes dangerous is about 5-6 people per square meter.
7 square feet per person seems like a low safety threshold to me, as that is about 1.54 people per square meter. I bet many seated venues are more dense than that
@@kolmogorovaxiom1493Yes, many seated venues probably are more dense than seven square feet per person. But I think what makes that still safer is that being seated people aren't pushing up against each other forcing the closest people into the stage. But it's a good thought. You can have overcrowded conditions both ways.
Love you brother(your channel and service to the community) , but if this is the weirdest day you've ever had, you've had a very tame life!
Thank you for all you do Mr. Lehto.
First he hid under the Viper, then the Cobra, then the Delorean, then the Ferrari, then the Bentley, and finally he settled under the military Duce. Must have been a veteran woodchuck.
His only other choices were the ATV and the Cub Cadet lawn tractor. (Notice that his big mistake was foolishly hiding under the stairs.)
AMERICAN 🇺🇸 WOODCHUCK! 😻
Don't let them make a burrow. They are very difficult to dis-lodge once they make one. We used to go looking for the holes they make in the pasture because it's dangerous for horses to step in a hole like that. They will just dig around anything you use to plug the holes, or dig them back out if you fill them with dirt.
Cement, but leave it dry. They hate the stuff.
@@mrcryptozoic817 An experienced lady once told me in a whisper that a human turd at the entrance of the borrow also works. I haven't tried that myself
@@surferdudemiI think there needs to be an actual study on this.
@@joshuagibson2520 In the name of science, someone must
The dug under a friends' in-ground pool. That stopped them for a few days.
Thank you for reminding me that Gary Neumann was still putting out music. Savage is a good album! It truly is a weird day when a video about a lawyer and his woodchuck leads me to music I have not heard. 😆
Meanwhile the neighbors kid who was getting a late night snack is wondering why Steve next door is firing up his car at this hour.
I had a similar incident with a hummingbird in my garage. I could not coerce it to leave over an hour or more. Long story short, I brought a hanging flower basket into the garage, when the sun hit them, it flew like dart to them and I walked it and the flower basket out.
My friend had a racoon get into her house. Her husband shot it with a shotgun of all things when the police refused to come. It wrecked everything in the room, including the piano. Blood, brains and guts all over the place. Insurance refused to pay because he was so stupid, I guess, and he got a ticket from the cops for firing a gun so close to a dwelling. Judge laughed at him, but he got a huge fine but no jail time. What a dope.
Why he'd go so far? Was it aggressive or something? The racoons I've seen on RUclips have all been really lackdaisical and you can just kind of poke them out with a broom stick.
Why would the police have responded to a call about a raccoon?😂 He should’ve called animal control.
@DKNguyen3.1415 I've had problems with raccoons that came right up to me that I couldn't scare off.
Usually, it's because someone has been feeding them, but you can't know for certain that they don't have rabies.
It's illegal to feed them for good reason. Animals get way too bold, and potentially dangerous when they get used to people feeding them.
It's easy to get it out. Leave a trail of crunchy snacks to the open door. Go to a room nearby and quietly wait for the crunching. When he gets near the door, chase him out.
Trouble with outdoor raccoons, paintball gun.
"Old man yells at cloud!" is what came to mind when you described chasing the critter across your yard. 😂
That woodchuck will be back- guaranteed! My boys, grandsons live in the country here in Michigan and are plagued with these critters in our buildings doing damage to our equipment and buildings. Lacking a good farm dog, we use Connibear 220 traps and the groundhogs and racoons keep them Filled! Hate to do it, but life on the farm is not an easy life.
Steve, we know that this was hard on you, but we are laughing our heads off. Thank-you for sharing!
I once went outside and there was a goat standing on top of my brand-new 1973 Monte Carlo
I once had a squirrel that got down into my fireplace from the chimney. He managed to get the cover doors open and proceeded to knock EVERY breakable item off of EVERY shelf/table in the room. I usually put on oven mitts and grab the invasive squirrels but this one was very aggressive, so I sent my dog in. The dog herded the squirrel out of the house.
Wonderful dog! ♥️🐕♥️
Good Dog! Steak for you tonight!
We had a flying squirrel come down our chimney. He didn’t do any damage though. We discovered it the next morning sitting next to our parrot on top of the cage. Guess he felt safe there.
You lucky Lheto! I cornered a GroundHog outside our garage, and approached him with the same stick you used. He barred his teeth with a hideous growl (the same one you used), and with 10 extended claws threatened me to leave him alone forever! - - I backed away and called my lawyer.
I can't speak for anyone else, but having my hip go out at the very front of the crowd at a Gary Newman/Ministry concert is kinda life goals...
Steve needs to apologize to all cats watching for wrongful accusations and slander
8:15 - now we know what a wood chuck would do. Lol
Thanks for sharing Steve... I chuckled the entire time. Nice to know we all have crazy days...
Be thankful you didn't have a wood pile in that garage. The damage would have been horrible due to the chucking!
Assuming the woodchuck could chuck wood.
LawDog out smarted by woodchuck.🐾🐾🐾
I'd certainly do a good look around the foundation of your garage to see if he lives under it, or has another hole inside.
We had some living under a shed on our property. We just let them stay there, but that was a shed with junk in it, not a garage with fine automobiles.
You can tell woodchuck stories all day long! I love it!!
Fun fact: woodchucks are ground squirrels. They are capable of climbing trees like squirrels although they prefer to stay underground.
Thank you, I did not know that! 🙂
The more you know 🌈. (I did not know that!)
I dont want to laugh at you for your ordeal, but I can't help but laugh along with you over it. 😅
At least I know where that whistle sound came from after 4am - it woke me out of a sound sleep. Thanks Steve
I love Gary's recent stuff. Ruin is magnificent. I love the fact that he performs with his kids.
Woodchuck back in the wood hood, telling his buddies how he strategically out maneuvered a cobra, a viper and some crazy lunatic with a stick and whistle!! My crazy day.
So, what I take from this: no matter how bad things might be for me, I DO NOT have to worry about what an immature woodchuck did to my new Cobra!!! 😂
EXACTLY!
I think Steve just wanted us to know he lived in an expensive development, with a huge lawn and he's got a cobra and several expensive cars.. oh and likes hard rock. Lol.
@@stevelehto I’m SO glad you didn’t take my comment in a way I didn’t intend. But seriously, if a rodent spent an unsupervised 12 - 16 hours with my cars….😳😵🤢🤮 I honestly already have nightmares about my Datsun 240Z leaving my wife stranded! My only recurring dream!
I've chased a few trespassing wild animals to drive the point home. But I'm usually at the point where I can only yell "Blaughlaughlagh!" And similar. Makes no difference to a woodchuck.
@@JTLaser1i love that car, your wife is lucky!
All I can think of is Ray Stevens "Mississippi Squirrel."
Just think of the story that the woodchuck is telling right now back at the nest.
"I was hiding in the wheel wells of a Viper and a Cobra . . . ." (Other woodchucks just assume he's making stuff up.)
Perhaps it thought it was a mongoose?
@@stevelehto"No, for real man, those wires tasted so sweet! Guys you gotta believe me!" 🏎 🤣😂🤣
Does the woodchuck have a lawyer? As a squatter, it has some rights.
Sounds like fun. Ministry with Gary Numan would be a blast to see!
Wood Chuck is the Roadrunner and Steve is Wiley Coyote 😅😅😅😅
Steve better not use items from Acme
I just gotta say, I love your channel and now you’re talking about my favourite band, Front Line Assembly!
Back in the 80s, I went to start my dad's station wagon, not knowing a woodchuck was under the engine. Poor thing bent the alt bracket and made a mess of the pully system.
Long time subscriber. I saw the same concert in Chicago this past Thursday. Agree....was epic!
I can definitely identify with your woodchuck problem! I have a used Dodge pickup I use for Hawkins g stuff for yard work and working on my house. About 10 years ago I had a squirrel take up residence in one of the spaces above the wheels in the front fender. The squirt neatly totaled the truck! It ate through 3 different wiring harnesses, spark plug cables, coolant overflow tank, a bunch of sound insulation and a few other things. Overall did over $5000 worth of damage, getting close to what the truck was worth! Sure glad I had comprehensive insurance!
Check for holes in ground around your home. Wood chucks will continue to tunnel under your concrete floor and they will DESTROY
the pad causing the concrete to crack and break and cause uneven
floor. My boss had this happen and the broken concrete PCs had settled so bad he couldn't even pull into garage.
An acquaintance of mine was unloading her car after a trip to the supermarket. Unbeknownst to her, a squirrel entered her car while she was indoors. She returned to her car to bring indoors the second load of groceries and locked her car -- locking the squirrel in the car overnight. Next morning she opened her car to leave for work -- and the squirrel jumped out and ran away. But the interior of the car was completely vandalized: the squirrel had tried to escape by gnawing through the door panels, arm rests, ... everything.
"so i chased him." 😂
With my luck he would have gone around the corner and started burrowing under the garage.
😂😂 And Steve yelling at him.
Mr Woodchuck, youre trespassing and I'm a lawyer...
@@4FlatTiresCriminal tresspass
Woodchuck: "Make the bastard chase you. He will follow."
Strangest part of this story "pawprints on an ATV I own." Would never in a million years have pictured Steve on an ATV. Missed opportunity to find out how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck would.
If two things make for one of the craziest days of your life, you've lived a sheltered life!
Steve has unexpectedly cool musical tastes.
I know. While I like Gary Numan I would love to see FLA again. Ministry is sometimes great but I prefer the the 90's version. He didn't state if he left after GN though or stayed and watched Ministry.
Obviously it feels as strongly as Steve about imported cars and that was why it was drawn to Steve's garage.
Great story, Steve! It's hilarious that both cars are predators of rodents 😂
Steve & other folks that like music! There is a great artist that is fabulous live. Michael Franti & Spearhead. Definitely worth seeing them live!
'And thus, the legend of Crazy Old Man Lehto was born. The neighbor kids will tell tales of his crazy pre-dawn rambling for years to come.'
I had a skunk hiding in my garage one night. I ended up calling a private relocation guy because the city's "animal control" didn't deal with skunks.
I never knew you were a Gary Numan fan… got tickets to see that show in North Carolina next weekend. Awesome story.
Is he headlining or playing with Ministry? He's doing both on this tour.
@@stevelehto playing with. I’m a big fan of all three on the bill.
"I'm a people person" always makes me think of that line in office space. I HAVE PEOPLE SKILLS!
Mr. Lehto gripes on his “The Vault” channel and we are all honoured and privileged to be his sounding board as such :)
I married into an amazing collection of muscle cars. 66 Vette 427 performance package. One owner 69 Boss 429. Numbers Matching Chevelles. L89 Camaro. No bs. Wife has a soft spot for cats. Rescues them. Feeds strays. No mice in our 7 garages. However, I about lost it when I saw cat prints all over these 6 figure cars. Doesn’t bother my wife at all. I have learned to live with the cat prints. About lost my mind the first few times I caught cats in one of the garages just chilling on one of the all original classics.
My problem is crows. I live in a multi home property, on the top floor/attic. - It's an old building, and has absolutely no insulation under the roof. So in cold weather the heat from the three homes, mine and the two others beneath, pass straight throw the roof. Crows and other birds love this. Crows are BIG birds with big claws. Noisy MFers !
I live in a RV, the crows/ravens love to come around when I'm cooking and dance on my roof! I don't usually hear them land, but when they start moving around it's like being inside a drum!
@@darrinrebagliati5365that's pretty cute... I love crows
Crows are real smart too. To be honest I'd much rather have crows than mice, which I have been actively dealing with for 2 years continously.
@@DKNguyen3.1415 peanut butter. The key ingredient to a better mousetrap. 5gal bucket with upside down stainless bowl in just enough water to not wash away the pb. Farm country life.
@@darrinrebagliati5365 Doesn't work. The mice have learned to avoid all that about a year ago. Yes, they have learned to avoid buckets, traps, peanut butter and combinations thereof, and were never interested in bowls. They've even learned to not enter the house proper. The live only between the walls and the outside. To be honest, I am not sure how they learned to avoid the bucket traps so quickly. Only one bucket ever got mice and it got four of them in the first week it was put out, then never again.
I ended up needing to use poison, but even then the mice in my house particular aren't falling for it. The poison I put on next to my neighbour's house gets eaten all the time but the poison next to my house...nothing. Similarly, the only traps that ever catch mice are the one I put next to my neighbour's house. The traps next to mine never catch anything. And I always wear gloves and de-scent traps.