Be kind to animals.......OR ELSE!!
 

I've gotta imagine this old guy is sorry he just didn't leave a few boxes of d-Con around!


http://dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3384163


Mouse sets home on fire
Trapped mouse thrown into fire gets revenge: sets home ablaze
Associated Press


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."

Ouch.. that is what you get for being cruel to a creature. I have no problem killing mice, or animals etc... But burning it to death, is wrong.

Yeah, wrong way to kill the mouse.

If there's "Unseasonably dry and windy conditions", like it is here in Oklahoma, I wonder if there was a burn ban on? If so, I guess he paid the fine the hard way.

I think someone has been watching entirely too many Tom and Jerry cartoons... :crazy:


The mouse should have known better... Stop. Drop. and Roll... you don't just take off and run into the house - that'd be bad...

Well, that definitely puts a new spin on my "Ever Killed an Animal?" thread.

Maybe a new thread asking "What is the worst thing an animal has ever done to you?"

Mine: My dog jumped up on my lap after I had leg surgery. Right after...

Oh, and he likes to step on my eyeball when I am sleeping. His way of a polite wake-up call.

BigBen, I'm hoping your dog isn't a Saint Bernard....

I think he invented a poor mans cruise missle!

Just have to put cheese in the target.

buwahahahahahahaha. That's awesome. That's what that sorry SOB gets for trying to BURN A LIVING MOUSE. If that thing wasn't classified as a pest animal, he could have been staring at a Class A Misdemeanor here in Texas for cruelty to animals, which carries a 4k USD fine.

one word...KARMA!

Way to go, Mouse! I used to have a t-shirt with a mouse flipping off a cat, and it said "Final act of defiance". This lil mouse took that to a new level.

Shame the guy wasn't in the house when it burned.

heheh....harsh, but true

Are you two seriously saddened that the HUMAN BEING wasn't killed by the animal?

Sorry for the double post, but I thought this was important enough.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/5973746/detail.html

Flaming Mouse Story Found To Be False
Rumor Squashed: Flaming Mouse Didn't Start House Fire

UPDATED: 9:39 am EST January 10, 2006

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."

Ah, my righteous indignation has been quenched....curses, Toaster126 :lol:

If you really feel the need to get on this guy then do it for this..

Unseasonably dry and windy? Charred more than 53,000 acres? destroyed 10 homes...you don't say?

Hmmm..I wonder if I should burn those leaves in the front yard?

Ahh well, my bad....

Indeed though, the makings of a good urban legend.

At least he could laugh in the face of tragedy. Respect.