Posted on 01/09/2006 4:26:28 PM PST by new yorker 77
FORT SUMNER, New Mexico - 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 into the man's house, catching 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 just beneath a window of the house. The flames spread up the window and throughout the house.
All contents of the home were destroyed, he said. No injuries were reported.
Unseasonably dry and windy conditions have charred more than 53,000 acres (21,200 hectares) 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."
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Them firey New Mexico Rats!
ARMAGEDDON!!...oh wait, that was a gerbil.
The SOB deserved it. A mouse may be a pest but tossing it into a fire is just plain sadistic. Stomp on the mouse or something jeeze.
Rush probably read about it on Free Republic: We discussed this yesterday. ;-]
Its hard to get rid of those varmints.
Luciano Mares tries to help the Fort Sumner Fire Department extinguish a blaze at his Fort Sumner home Saturday.
"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.
New Mexico's very own Clark Griswold.
Now both threads are in chat!!
I put in the headline above into the search, nothing came up, so I posted it.
An outrage ....A Mouse burning down a house is clearly news
Careful... this F O G (Friend of Gerbils) has been in NM making a movie lately
Muleteam1
What is this, the off - off - off Broadway adaptation of that Nathan Lane movie, "Mouse Hunt"?
Cruel
Try using the words "mouse thrown" or just "mouse" in your search --- turns out there are three threads on this story, all in "Chat".
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=mouse+thrown&ok=Search&q=quick&m=all&o=time&SX=43c309313a0ece995c37802a1a8b26ce5039c77c
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=mouse&ok=Search&q=quick&m=any&o=time&SX=43c308db3a76422c03949520f5e4ff4e813c3636
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1554618/posts
ping
You mean the mouse got away? Whew! Thank goodness. Had me worried there for a minute.
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