A Burning Mouse Did It .....

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:57 am

Clancy wrote: My apologies, I didn't know this story was already running in another news thread.

Do I delete it? ...or does Admin?
Compete!

Market your thread as more interesting than that 'other' thread. Recruit more people to post here. It could be the new cyber-sport! :guitarist

SOJOURNER · Post by **SOJOURNER** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:58 am

A competition will have to be moved to the games section.........

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:05 am

somebody ought to set his sorry arse on fire.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:33 am

Love those rodents!:-4

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:08 pm

Butter's supposed to be good for minor burns!

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:34 pm

:yh_rotfl Abbey's spreadin' the Butter! :yh_rotfl

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:45 pm

*pricking up ears*

Bringing butter into the thread is always a sure way to get more posts................

ChiptBeef · Post by **ChiptBeef** » Mon Jan 09, 2006 5:11 pm

It must have been a Republican mouse, even though there are plenty of Democrat rodents. Why? Because everything deemed wrong or bad for the country is often rested at the steps of the White House.

Why are golf balls white? Because of President Bush's racism (satire). :wah:

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 8:44 am

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 News4Jax.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."

ChiptBeef · Post by **ChiptBeef** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:21 pm

lady cop wrote: Flaming Mouse Story Found To Be False

Rumor Squashed: Flaming Mouse Didn't Start House Fire

More liberal media propoganda. :-5

ChiptBeef · Post by **ChiptBeef** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:11 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: I'm gonna slap you so hard, spits gonna fly out your ears.

Have at it... except forum rules prohibit threats.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:31 pm

The man now says the mouse was dead before he threw it on the fire..........

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:59 am

SnoozeControl wrote: By the way Chipt... have you always been devoid of humor?

Chip reported a slap threat?!?

What a *****! :yh_rotfl

ChiptBeef · Post by **ChiptBeef** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:40 pm

Two words.... "context" and "satire." Where's your sense of humor?

ChiptBeef · Post by **ChiptBeef** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:26 pm

That mouse looks very happy. Are those poppy's he/she might have been chewing on? :wah: