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#1
I got this off of Bean's Blog. Bean of the Kevin and Bean show who do hard hitting interviews about crotch kicking.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Fiery mouse burns the house

A mouse took fiery revenge on a man who threw it into a pile of burning leaves by burning his house down.

The flaming mouse ran back into the wooden house of 81-year-old Luciano Mares, in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, setting it afire and virtually destroying the building. Mares said he had caught the mouse in his home on Saturday and threw it on a pile of refuse and leaves he was burning in the garden. “The mouse was on fire and ran back at the house,” he told the Clovis News Journal newspaper. Fire Chief Juan Chavez said the mouse stood below a window and set the wooden wall ablaze. Firefighters from two stations spent two hours battling the blaze. afp
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#2
Bad Greg!

No Internets for you!

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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."

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#3
Isn't the man getting his house burned downed by a vengeful mouse a far superior story to man's house burnt by stupidity? Where's the truthiness in that?

I'm voting for vengeful mouse.
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#4
Then again, maybe this will be one of those debateable conspiracies like 9/11 or the 6-buns to 10-Hot dog packaging theory.

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N.M. Man Supports House-Burning Mouse Tale
New Mexico Man Stands by Story About Flaming Mouse Burning His House Down
By MARK EVANS Associated Press Writer
The Associated PressThe Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Jan 10, 2006 — Was it really a mouse that burned down Luciano Mares' house? Or was it just the wind?

Mares' story of a flaming mouse that scampered from a burning pile of leaves into his rural home Saturday drew international media attention. Then on Monday, the 81-year-old told an Albuquerque television station that strong wind spread burning leaves, leveling his home of more than two decades.

But on Tuesday, Mares and his nephew stood by his original version that a mouse was the culprit.

"That dang mouse crawled in there," Mares said in a telephone interview from a motel in Fort Sumner, where he is staying with his nephew. "I have an awful hate for those critters."

In the interview, Mares recounted three times the series of events Saturday: A little mouse got caught in one of the glue traps he'd set in and around his home. He was pleased mice were a nuisance, they'd been bothering him for some time, leaving droppings everywhere. And they were hard to get rid of. This mouse, too, was resilient trapped but still moving. The glue was sticky; he couldn't pull the mouse off.

So, according to Mares, he went outside and threw the whole deal mouse and trap onto the burning leaves. The mouse, now ablaze, scrambled to safety, then headed back for the house and disappeared inside a window. About 90 seconds later, the house was on fire.

How did the mouse run away, still trapped in the glue?

"The fire melted the glue and he got away," Mares said.

Is that plausible? Fort Sumner Fire Chief Juan Chavez said Tuesday he thinks so.

"There's no reason for him to lie about what he told us," Chaves said. "I don't doubt it at all."

Fire crews arrived within minutes of the blaze and questioned Mares.

"I think he knew right then what happened. It's the story he told us, it's the story he told everyone else," Chavez said.

Richard Mares, 37, who is helping his uncle recover from the fire and figure out what the future holds, said his uncle has told him the same story many times.

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#5
Ah, the movies, where all true knowledge exists.

Maxwell Scott: "This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
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#6
I should have that reprinted and hung over my desk.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
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#7
Just what we need, something else hungover near your desk.

I'm just saying.
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#8
I suggest placing someone well-hung over your desk, so you can practice your high kicks.

Interesting about the mouse. Back in the days of yore, Genghis Khan reputedly would hold siege to an enemy city, then tell them that he would depart if they handed over all their pets (birds, cats(?), so on). Once he had the pets, Genghis (what a sense of humor!) would tie flammable stuff to their tails, light them up, and release them. And these pets knew every path through the city walls, and of course they would return to their homes. The result: A whole city in flames.

This was first reported in the Genghis Stone Tablet Times (which preceded Gore's WWW by a bit). But rumor has it that it's true. Really, I don't make this kind of stuff up.

--cranefly
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