Kicker: Pack rat, tidy mouse

NICK EICHER, HOST: A retiree in the U-K noticed his tool shed in the mornings was unusually tidy, and it wasn’t his wife picking up after him.

Rodney Holbrook told SkyNews:

HOLBROOK: So I thought I'm gonna, I'm gonna set up a night camera, a trail camera and that's what I done.

And what the camera done was catch the intruder on tape. Turns out, the quick picker-upper was a mouse scampering around picking up all sorts of nick-nacks: clothespins, lids, corks, nuts and bolts.

HOLBROOK: The mouse was putting the, all the items, well, most of them into the box.

Holbrook says the mouse has come out and tidied nearly every night for several months.

But the real test will be Spring cleaning, whether he knows how to get rid of things. Is he merely a tidy-house mouse, or a really organized pack rat?

It’s The World and Everything in It.

WORLD Radio transcripts are created on a rush deadline. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of WORLD Radio programming is the audio record.