Careful what you do with that mouse
Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:26 pm
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."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181008,00.html
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."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181008,00.html
Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:06 pm
Unseasonably dry and windy conditions have charred more than 53,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes in southeastern New Mexico in recent weeks.
So the guy burns some leaves.
So the guy burns some leaves.
Sun Jan 08, 2006 11:19 pm
It's hard to feel sympathy for this guy. Poor mouse though.
Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:17 am
I'd slap an animal cruelty charge on top of that.
Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:18 am
That's what the guy gets. If the mouse was dead then fine, but the poor thing was still alive and suffered.
Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:23 am
Originally posted by BulletTooth-TPF
Unseasonably dry and windy conditions have charred more than 53,000 acres and destroyed 10 homes in southeastern New Mexico in recent weeks.
So the guy burns some leaves.
I was wondering the same thing...
Usually I just drop the little bastards in the garbage disposal, make sure to put a plate over it so they can't jump out.
j.k
Mon Jan 09, 2006 11:41 am
That's so wrong..lolOriginally posted by ferret963
I was wondering the same thing...
j.k
Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:13 pm
I've killed all kinds of rodents before but now I'm getting soft in my old age. A few months ago, there was a mouse in the house everyone had seen around for quite some time. At night I would see a black flash run into or under something in the kitchen and sometimes I would hear rustling from some corner or other in my bedroom. We put down poison but apparently it didn't like it.
Well.. a month or so later, I threw something in the trashcan which had almost nothing in the bag - having been emptied recently, when movement in the bottom startled me. I cautiously peered in and got another fright when something jumped up at me! I realized it was that damn mouse! He had somehow gotten into the trashcan but couldn't get out again. He was a little field mouse 2-3 inches long or so, not including the tail. So, I decided to beat the damn thing that had haunted us to death. I figured one hit from another bag full of old coffee grounds should do the trick. So I hit him. Nope. Still alive! So I hit him again and again, and again... Uh. Damnitall! He wouldn't die! I then had a belated change of heart. I started to feel bad about beating the poor thing up. I had started to do so with the intention of an instant quick death for it, not prolongued torture. After all that he still looked quite fiesty and alive with no visible signs of said torture so I took the whole trashcan outside and let him go in my backyard.
I don't know whether he ran off to die later or whether he lived to raise children who either fear the house or are plotting revenge. Either way, there have been no mice at all in our house since.
Well. I certainly digressed from what I had originally been thinking when I started to respond to this post. I think I have seen that story before. Now I'm thinking hoax, plagerism or maybe I'm having a deja-vu moment. I searched google for another instince but could not find any other mention. I didn't spend much time at it though.
Well.. a month or so later, I threw something in the trashcan which had almost nothing in the bag - having been emptied recently, when movement in the bottom startled me. I cautiously peered in and got another fright when something jumped up at me! I realized it was that damn mouse! He had somehow gotten into the trashcan but couldn't get out again. He was a little field mouse 2-3 inches long or so, not including the tail. So, I decided to beat the damn thing that had haunted us to death. I figured one hit from another bag full of old coffee grounds should do the trick. So I hit him. Nope. Still alive! So I hit him again and again, and again... Uh. Damnitall! He wouldn't die! I then had a belated change of heart. I started to feel bad about beating the poor thing up. I had started to do so with the intention of an instant quick death for it, not prolongued torture. After all that he still looked quite fiesty and alive with no visible signs of said torture so I took the whole trashcan outside and let him go in my backyard.
I don't know whether he ran off to die later or whether he lived to raise children who either fear the house or are plotting revenge. Either way, there have been no mice at all in our house since.
Well. I certainly digressed from what I had originally been thinking when I started to respond to this post. I think I have seen that story before. Now I'm thinking hoax, plagerism or maybe I'm having a deja-vu moment. I searched google for another instince but could not find any other mention. I didn't spend much time at it though.
Mon Jan 09, 2006 7:25 pm
I know how you feel allah, this fall I was going to cook up some steaks on the grill out side. I open the lid and im like wtf it's a mouse! It had made a nest in my grill on the burners in like 3 days since we last used it. So I did what any red blooded American would do, I turned on the gas...and then lol j.k I scared the mouse out of the grill and then I put on gloves and tossed the nest into the woods, damn mice! I could of had a mouse barby-Q but they have such smalls bodies it's not worth the time lol 
Another story, I took my dog (border collie mixed with spaniel) out for a walk after he just ate lunch. Well he slipped his collar and was running around, I found him over in the neighbors bushes, he found a little nest of baby bunnies and was devouring them. He must have ate like 4 or 5 of them until I got him away. I think my dog will eat untill his stomic explodes, that or he dosn't like bunnys.
Another story, I took my dog (border collie mixed with spaniel) out for a walk after he just ate lunch. Well he slipped his collar and was running around, I found him over in the neighbors bushes, he found a little nest of baby bunnies and was devouring them. He must have ate like 4 or 5 of them until I got him away. I think my dog will eat untill his stomic explodes, that or he dosn't like bunnys.
Mon Jan 09, 2006 8:20 pm
Originally posted by PraiseA||ah
I think I have seen that story before. Now I'm thinking hoax, plagerism or maybe I'm having a deja-vu moment. I searched google for another instince but could not find any other mention. I didn't spend much time at it though.
http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=46754
When I lived with my parents we used to have a cat, she would play with any mouse she found usually at night until the poor thing (mouse) would just lay there and not move. At this point the cat would take the unharmed but exhausted mouse to my mom and drop it in front of her, wake her up and meow like she wanted my mom to throw it again like a toy, so she (the cat) could continue to play with it. My mom would pick up the mouse that would not make any effort to move it's little heart pounding and breathing fast and set him outside where he would finally take off into the night. I doubt after all the torture my cat put him through he never came back. This happened every couple of months I just doubt it was the same mouse...
Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:09 pm
Oh the good memorys of mouse hunting. I always catch them and let them free (mom is soooo scared of thme its so funny) one night my mother was laying on the floor watching tv. she fell asleep then (wood floors mind you) she hears t-t-t-t-t-t shes looks over a lil mouse is sniffing her nose. She jumps screams and runs like a bat out of hell into my room. (why i dont know my room, my dad has to get up early for work i guess..) so im out there tring to catch it and finally i said screw it, i got my cat and the cat had it cornered, the damn mouse stood on its hind legs and my cat ran outside and got into a corner...idk found it kinda funny..oh i ended up having to get it in a shoe box 
Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:09 pm
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.
"He said the mouse wasn't dead and it took off," the younger Mares said. He added: "We're really devastated. We lost all photos of our family, all his papers. He's a veteran of World War II. He's been through a lot."
Could his uncle have been rattled by the events and mistaken about the mouse? "He may be a little confused," Mares conceded.
With no further investigation planned, Chavez said his department's report of the fire will reflect that the burning critter ran back to the house.
MARK EVANS
Associated Press Writer
http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=46825
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.
"He said the mouse wasn't dead and it took off," the younger Mares said. He added: "We're really devastated. We lost all photos of our family, all his papers. He's a veteran of World War II. He's been through a lot."
Could his uncle have been rattled by the events and mistaken about the mouse? "He may be a little confused," Mares conceded.
With no further investigation planned, Chavez said his department's report of the fire will reflect that the burning critter ran back to the house.
MARK EVANS
Associated Press Writer
http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=46&id=46825