[Windflier]

What an idiot. Sounds just like some Gaia worshiping liberal who tried to take the mouse away from Snookums because it wasn’t ‘green’ organic cat food.

[Joe 6-pack]

"...was bitten on the hand while trying to pull a mouse away from a stray cat..."

My heart goes out to the guy and I sincerely hope he gets well, but what on earth would possess somebody to try to take a mouse from a stray cat?!?!?

[DBrow]

Plague is (still) endemic on the West Coast. I was camping at some BLM sites in the San Gabriels (or maybe Mt Pinos) and there were warning signs saying do not mess with the ground squirrels, they carry bubonic plague.

Unlike this guy I did not mess with the rodents, any rodents.

[Thrownatbirth]

who is in his 50s, was bitten on the hand while trying to pull a mouse away from a stray cat

His 401K must be with my broker.

[Caipirabob]

I’d like some more details on this but I know we’ll never get them. Why was he messing with a danged rodent and a stray cat?!?

[Noob1999]

That’s scary! I thought that the plague was wiped out a century or so ago.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

So who bit him...the cat or the mouse?

[Salvation]

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[JRandomFreeper]

1/4 of the earth's population of humans die between 1346 and 1352, and they get a paragraph in the history books.

One poor guy in Oregon, God bless him, and prayers up... is very sick, and it makes national news.

Whattabunchapussies....

/johnny

[tflabo]

was bitten on the hand while trying to pull a mouse away from a stray cat

UUuhhhhhhhhh don't cats kinda specialize in chewing up mice as sport? Must be a dumb liberal save the planet type.

[Tainan]

Did someone mention The Plague?...Its time to Bring out Your Dead!

[cricket]

Good grief; it never ends. . . .Flesh necrotizing bacteria; the 'plague'/Black Death. . .If it's not bears; it's alligators; or brown recluse spider - multiplying pythons; mice or just a mouse, in a cat's mouth. Then we have the 'tornado'; the hurricanes; the forest fires; the droughts and the floods. Many axims that speak to this; one: Everything changes; Nothing changes. Another we hear often; 'The more things change; the more they stay the same'. And so it is.

(Used to read as a child; about Christians being martyred for their Faith; fed to lions; tortured, beheaded; read of ancient physical atrocities; and imagined all belonged in an uncivilized, 'world past'; and that these things, so heinous; would never touch MY world. Same goes for the Holocaust. Could not possibly imagine 'otherwise'. . .

Hard to fathom, sometimes; how we grew up - or that any of us, 'last' till old. Clearly, many 'in time'; do not manage either. While many do, of course. . .

(Reading David McCullough's "Greater Journeys/Americans in Paris". This takes me there.)

[cricket]

Good grief; it never ends. . . .Flesh necrotizing bacteria; the 'plague'/Black Death. . .If it's not bears; it's alligators; or brown recluse spider - multiplying pythons; mice or just a mouse, in a cat's mouth. Then we have the 'tornado'; the hurricanes; the forest fires; the droughts and the floods. Many axims that speak to this; one: Everything changes; Nothing changes. Another we hear often; 'The more things change; the more they stay the same'. And so it is.

(Used to read as a child; about Christians being martyred for their Faith; fed to lions; tortured, beheaded; read of ancient physical atrocities; and imagined all belonged in an uncivilized, 'world past'; and that these things, so heinous; would never touch MY world. Same goes for the Holocaust. Could not possibly imagine 'otherwise'. . .

Hard to fathom, sometimes; how we grew up - or that any of us, 'last' till old. Clearly, many 'in time'; do not manage either. While many do, of course. . .

(Reading David McCullough's "Greater Journeys/Americans in Paris". This takes me there.)

[cricket]

Good grief; it never ends. . . .Flesh necrotizing bacteria; the 'plague'/Black Death. . .If it's not bears; it's alligators; or brown recluse spider - multiplying pythons; mice or just a mouse, in a cat's mouth. Then we have the 'tornado'; the hurricanes; the forest fires; the droughts and the floods. Many axims that speak to this; one: Everything changes; Nothing changes. Another we hear often; 'The more things change; the more they stay the same'. And so it is.

(Used to read as a child; about Christians being martyred for their Faith; fed to lions; tortured, beheaded; read of ancient physical atrocities; and imagined all belonged in an uncivilized, 'world past'; and that these things, so heinous; would never touch MY world. Same goes for the Holocaust. Could not possibly imagine 'otherwise'. . .

Hard to fathom, sometimes; how we grew up - or that any of us, 'last' till old. Clearly, many 'in time'; do not manage either. While many do, of course. . .

(Reading David McCullough's "Greater Journeys/Americans in Paris". This takes me there.)

[BlessingsofLiberty]

I thought the Black Plague was carried by fleas. Fleas living on rodents (as in a mouse).

This story, like so many, makes very little sense. He should have let the cat eat the mouse.

A lot of people figured that out a real long time ago. Unfortunately, too late for the many who died of the Black Plague.

[trailboss800]

Oh boy, one less vegetarian.

[lonevoice]

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