Mouse Thrown Into Fire Sets Home Ablaze

[RicardoHead]

This ought to make story of the year ...


Mouse Thrown Into Fire Sets Home Ablaze (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060109/ap_on_fe_st/mouse_fire)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."

[glockmail]

Didn't they make that movie already?

[RicardoHead]

You know, I was thinking about this mouse ... this has to be some kind of insurance fraud.

First of all, yeah the story is outrageous, but if you think about it (1) it's not like a mouse is highly combustible (despite what you may have seen on Rock & Roll High School),
(2) mice don't have a thick pelt that could carry a flame for too long,
(3) a burning mouse isn't going to run 200 feet so that pile of leaves must have been damn close to the house indicating negligence,
(4) you go ahead and try to ignite a house with a flaming mouse and let me know how it turns out.I think it's highly more likely that a burning leaf from the fire that was too close to the house caught wind and blew into a curtain and started it. Dipshit blames a mouse because insurance isn't going to cover an accident caused by his negligence, and his brother in law Juan the Fire Chief wrote up the report to cover him.

Which story is more logical and likely to pass Judge Judy's scrutiny?

[JBMoney]

Flaming Mouse Story Found To Be False
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/5973746/detail.html

[RicardoHead]

Okay so it isn't insurance fraud but more like the old dude is trying to play off sympathies and score big off all the donations. I know how people are...;)

[Ojive]

I lived in the bay area in 1991 when the Oakland hills fire cleaned everything up. I was blown away at how many people didn't have insurance. A multi-million-dollar home on top a hill with growing turpentine trees all around. Amazing :confused:

[glockmail]

Okay so it isn't insurance fraud but more like the old dude is trying to play off sympathies and score big off all the donations. I know how people are...;) He's not getting any sympathy from me. He did set fire to that poor mouse. I'm not exactly a PETA-guy, but that type of behaivior is deplorable. Kids who torture animals, don't they turn into sickos?

Slightly off topic: Last time there was a mouse in my house my rat terrier took care of it. It was amazing. The cat was playing with the poor thing (actually brought it into the house), and I went to grab it to get rid of it. It slipped out of my hands, the dog grabbed like a frog grabs a fly, positioned it precisely in her mouth, then chomped down, killing it instantly. She then ran right to the front door, which I promptly opened, took it out and set it down at the edge of the property. The domesticated instinct of animals is amazing.

[RicardoHead]

The domesticated instinct of animals is amazing.Not of cats. My current cat I don't think could kill to save her life, but her predecesor would bring a bird in the house, maim it, fling its still-living and chirping body all over the house getting feathers everywhere and even leaving bird-body splats 4 ft up the wall, run all over the place with it alive in his mouth while you chased him, then when he wanted to give up he'd drop it and ram some claws into its suffering dying body while its beak moved in pain, and the cat would look up with this huge happy evil grin as if to say "Isn't this freakin great? You wanna play too?"

Domesticated my ass. They have a cool sense of family though.

[glockmail]

You are correct. I should have been more specific and said "dogs". Cats, at least every one that I've ever had, are about as close to wild as possible and still maintain some relationship with the humans that care for the little bastards.

I had a cat that was feral, but had been taken from the litter at one week and dropper fed until weaned. He was one terrific hunter. The previous owners had two de-clawed, useless cats, and the mice where in the attic, behind the walls, above the cabinets, under the floor slab in the barn- you name it. He cleared the place out in two months, then proceeded in an ever widening circle to ethnic-cleanse the area. We lived near two dairy farms so there were lots of mice, rats, birds, snakes, frogs around for him to feast on.

[Bucko]

You know, I was thinking about this mouse ... this has to be some kind of insurance fraud.

(2) mice don't have a thick pelt that could carry a flame for too long,


It might have been the glue burning that it was stuck to. I can sort of sympathize with the guy because I have mouse droppings on my desk at work every morning. It drives me nuts. The traps they set don't do squat. I've been at my desk and have seen them going up the network cables into the ceiling. I feel like I'm going to get Deer Fever or some disease just going to work.

I've never been mean to animals but at this point, hell yes I would have torched its ass. Sometimes when they're stuck to the traps they really squeal in their tortured state. He might have been freaking out at that and figured he'd just toss it in the fire. You really can't save the poor things when they're stuck to those things. They stopped using them at work because it freaked all the women out, especially when they squealed in agony.

We've got a hawk that's been feeding on one of the neighborhood drug dealers nark pidgeons. Three have been torn to shreds in two weeks. You go out in the morning and there's two wings and feathers everywhere.

You know..I completely forgot where I was going with this....:OOPS:

[glockmail]

Try using peanut butter in a standard spring trap.

Or, take a 5 gallon pail on the floor next to your desk, with a string hung down into it that ends in the bucket but about 12" off the bottom. Clamp a standard paper clip on the end of the string and put peanut butter on it.

Or you can spend 15 minutes of your bosses time disinfecting the place every morning. That will convince the old man to clean the place up.

"Nark pigeons"?

[RicardoHead]

Hey, good excuse for a company cat! :D

[Bucko]

"Nark pigeons"?

That's what I call them. They use them to warn the dealers the cops are coming. I'm not kidding.

[glockmail]

Birds or people?