BREAKING NEWS: Burning mouse story is false

[kay1864]

CNN should be covering this instead of some silly Congressional hearings:

Flaming Mouse Story Found To Be False
Rumor Squashed: Flaming Mouse Didn't Start House Fire
UPDATED: 7:39 am MST 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.

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"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.


http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/5973746/detail.html?rss=den&psp=irresistible

[kick-ass-bob]

1. They're just trying to cover it up.

They didn't want that guy subjected to PETA.

:tinfoilhat:

[radwriter0555]

2. Well there's a republican for ya.

Deny, deny, deny.

He's wigging cause he was nailed burning a live animal.

[kay1864]

3. I thought the original story had an urban-legendy feel

I did kinda wonder why he would catch a mouse, not kill it, and THEN toss it onto a burning pile of leaves. Most people use mouse traps. Unless he's a real sicko.