Posted on 01/09/2006 7:49:02 AM PST by Redcitizen
FORT SUMNER, N.M. - A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The blazing creature ran back to the man's house and set it on fire.
Luciano Mares, 81, of Fort Sumner said he caught the mouse inside his house and wanted to get rid of it.
"I had some leaves burning outside, so I threw it in the fire, and the mouse was on fire and ran back at the house," Mares said from a motel room Saturday.
Village Fire Chief Juan Chavez said the burning mouse ran to just beneath a window, and the flames spread up from there and throughout the house.
No was hurt inside, but the home and everything in it was destroyed.
Unseasonably dry and windy conditions have charred more than 53,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes in southeastern New Mexico in recent weeks.
"I've seen numerous house fires," village Fire Department Capt. Jim Lyssy said, "but nothing as unique as this one."
This sounds like the best explanation -- are you an insurance adjuster? :)
Dat you, Mr Jingles?
If it was "cosmic justice" it might fall under the Act of God provisions in an insurance policy and the homeowner would be SOL.
I too am skeptical---It was either a VERY large mouse with fur like a sheepdog's or a mouse blessed with superintelligence that knew just where to run, and sat under flammable curtains as long as needed to set the house ablaze. And WHY coiuld the homeowner not have seen the fire start and go put it out?
Read here today. Chill out!
That's what I thought.
As an aside, my parents were married in Ft. Sumner about a zillion years ago.
susie
Peta will no doubt make this guy a posterchild.
In my mind's eye I picture this little ball of fire moving like...well, a little ball of fire!
"Peta will no doubt make this guy a posterchild."
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Posters of flaming mice!!! Oh, the horror. (sob..sob)
Get your Photoshop working.
Kitty Ping.
Somehow, a cat has to be involved in this...
I dont' like mice running around but that was a terrible thing for that person to do. Either destroy the mouse or forget about it but don't do what he did. That was a high price to pay for an extermination.
There ya go friend. I am with you 100%.
Kind of stupid and callous of the guy to get rid of a mouse by burning it alive. A simple blow to the back across the shoulder blades will kill a mouse or rat quickly. He could have even flung it against a wall.
Picking up a wild mouse is rather stupid also as they can carry lyme disease, Hanta virus or other unpleasant diseases.
This jerk gets the "Darwin" award for gross stupidty and unnecessary cruelty.
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