Flaming Mouse Doused
January 10th, 2006 at 10:27 am by Sam KelterTags: blogitude, fire, humor, media, mouse
Although the story from New Mexico about 81-year-old Chano Mares losing his house — after a burning mouse ran back inside from a fiery leaf pile —- certainly counted as 2006’s most hysterical news story, we find out today that it isn’t true at all.
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.”
With a little luck, the information that the mouse was already dead will dissuade the imminent-but-misguided crusade of Animal Rights activists-slash-eco-terrorists intent on harrassing an uninsured, homeless, elderly man.
