Lookner Checks His Car for Animals
Steve Lookner has made another video for his Lookner channel on YouTube. It is entitled “I Check The Car for Animals - LIVE”:
This live stream video starts with Steve in his apartment building’s parking garage. He says that he got a new phone recently, because the old one was getting too old, but he doesn’t yet have a microphone for this new phone.
Steve explains that during an earlier news stream, he had learned that some people were reporting that animals like rats had started living in their cars because the cars hadn’t been used much during the COVID-19 lockdowns. He says that the last time he drove his car, about a week earlier, he thought he had heard a weird sound like something moving, along with what he thought was a weird smell. So Steve thinks he should check his car before driving it again, and he plans on live streaming while he does the check.
He shows us the back of his parked car, and it appears to be a black Infiniti G35 sedan. He apologizes for it being dusty, as he hasn’t driven it in about a week.
Steve explains that he does wear a mask when out in public, but isn’t wearing one while filming because nobody else is around in the parking garage. Returning to the topic of his car, he mentions that it’s a 2005 model, and that he loves it.
He explains that his plan is to knock on the hood first, to see if anything runs out. Then he plans on opening the hood, to check if he can see anything. He mentions being scared that he might find a dead animal inside.
Steve again shows his car from behind, explaining that a dark bag on the ground on the passenger side is his, so it’s nothing suspicious. He walks around the driver’s side, up to the hood. At this point he realizes that he should turn the alarm off, so he proceeds to do that. He apprehensively taps on the car’s hood several times, and doesn’t hear anything, so he taps it again.
Since he didn’t hear anything suspicious after tapping, he decides to open the hood of the car, and to check it using the help of a flashlight he keeps in the car. He proceeds to get in the car so that he can pop the hood and get the flashlight. Not long after he gets out of the car to fully open the hood, and while on the way to the hood he says he thinks he might have heard something, but that he isn’t sure if it came from under the hood of his car or if it came from somewhere else. He reads a comment from one viewer who thinks it might be a snake!
He has to pull a latch to open the hood, and once that’s done he opens the hood fully and starts to check inside. He doesn’t immediately see anything, and so he uses the flashlight to help do a more thorough inspection. He does seem some leaves, but no animals and no signs of animals around the engine of the car.
Steve decides to start the car as a final test, but has to close the hood first, which he does. He gets in the car, starts it, and again doesn’t hear any animals. He says he’s happy that he didn’t find anything, and doesn’t smell anything unusual. He mentions he’ll go for a drive to get some use out of his car, and a viewer suggests that he turn on the heater while driving as another check.
He proceeds to wrap up the live stream by thanking the viewers and the moderators.
I think that this turned out to be a live stream that was full of suspense! Since he appears to keep his car in a modern parking garage I wasn’t expecting there to be any animals in the car, but you can never really be sure. Mice and other small animals can sometimes find their way into unexpected places inside buildings, and unexpectedly finding animals in one’s car isn’t exactly unusual either. At least Steve played it safe and checked his car, and thankfully there didn’t appear to be any animals living it!
- Karl