Mouse gets revenge.

I heard about it last night on the radio and laughed myself silly just thinking about it. Thanks for the link. As nice gaijin said, it serves him right. Poetic justice.
 
Here's an update from the AP.

FORT SUMNER, N.M. -- A small -town rumor that sparked world -wide interest about a mouse burning down a house has been found to be untrue.

After 81-year-old Chano Mares's house burned down Saturday in Fort Sumner, news services picked up the quirky story.

"Flaming Mouse Burns Down House" read the headline over an Associated Press story that appeared on WSBTV.com, for example.

According to the initial report, Mares threw the critter in a pile of burning leaves near his home, but it ran back to the house on fire.

A local firefighter said the mouse ran to just beneath a window and the flames spread up the window and throughout the house.

All contents of the home were destroyed, but no one was injured.

Interest in fires has been high lately. Unseasonably dry and windy conditions have charred more than 53,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes in southeastern New Mexico in recent weeks.

The mouse story, however, has been doused by Mares.

"It's really humorous more than anything that a mouse burned down the house," he told KOAT-TV in Albuquerque. The mouse was dead when it hit the burning leaves.

Mares said he trapped and killed the critter and tossed it on the fire.

The flames, he said, probably reached his house because they were driven by high winds.

Capt. Jim Lyssy of the Fort Sumner Fire Department said the rumor probably got started because there was "a little too much excitement" at the time of the fire.

Mares lost everything -- and has no insurance -- but the mouse story still makes him smile.

"I started laughing, and I'll be laughing from now on," he said. "It's silly."
 
that's a bit of a downer, especially since he has no insurance. At least he still has his sense of humor o_O
 
When I heard it on tv I kept picturing this squeaking mouse in flaming running into the house and *proof* the drapes go up in flames. I nearly pissed myself from laughing so hard.

Doc :wave:
 
I don't get what the big deal is. Like the news said, the mouse was dead when it hit the fire, so it really wasn't any worse than a conventional mousetrap. It's not like he tortured the mouse with a hot poker or something.
 
m477 said:
I don't get what the big deal is. Like the news said, the mouse was dead when it hit the fire, so it really wasn't any worse than a conventional mousetrap. It's not like he tortured the mouse with a hot poker or something.
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The big deal is that an old man managed to maintain his sense of humor after losing all his worldly possessions, and in the process snookered the news media of much of the free world with a **** and bull story.

Imagine what a cut-up this guy must be when he's coming off of a good day!
 
C'mon, people! Don't tell me any of you actually believed that crapola? I never did from jump street. The whole story read like something that should've been printed in a check-out line fishwrap like the National Enquirer instead of a real newspaper. Hell, being the cynic that I am, my first thought when I read that was the old coot made up the story about the fiery mouse as part of a scheme to collect insurance money on his house. It was just too unbelievable to be true.
 
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