We have a guinea pig in a cage in our garage because we're taking care of it for a friend. I had a bag of guinea pig food, sealed in a plastic bag on a shelf in the garage. Some time between Tuesday night and Thursday AM (I was out of town), the mice came in, ate the food , crapped and peed all over the garage and generally made a disgusting mess. I noticed that the old Dell PC that I keep on the desk in the garage wasn't running and I tried to power cycle it, but it wouldn't power up. After cleaning the garage yesterday and vacuuming up the mouse debris with my Craftsman Shop Vac, I turned my attention to the dead PC today and this is what I found...
Not only did the little b*stards pee and crap all over the nice warm innards of the PC, they chewed on the wires, shorting it out and killing it. I kicked one of them and killed it yesterday, which made me feel good (mouse killer)!, but now I have glue traps all over the place and I removed their food source.
I knew mice could make a hell of a mess in a car, but I didn't think about what they could do to a PC. The warm interior must have been attractive to them after they ate their fill of guinea pig food. What a mess!!!