An Edmonton man had an encounter with a very Canadian gremlin last weekend near Jasper: a marmot hid under the hood of his car and made a meal of some (thankfully unimportant) wiring.
“I drove nine [kilometres] down the road with a marmot in my engine compartment,” Vincent Bouchard said in an interview Tuesday.
Bouchard had just spent two days backpacking with his children. They returned to the parked car at the end of a long gravel road Sunday afternoon and started on their way.
But there was something wrong — multiple warning lights on Bouchard’s dashboard started blinking.
He kept driving to get back into cellphone
