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Thursday, January 12th, 2006 03:37 am (UTC)
The story is probably true.

The guy just denied it, because he looked really bad in it, and many people felt he deserved the result... which must be very unpleasant.
Thursday, January 12th, 2006 07:17 am (UTC)
Unlikely. Think about a mouse. Now think about a house. Now think about a mouse and a house. Now think about Dr. Seuss. I am going home...
Thursday, January 12th, 2006 04:03 pm (UTC)
He caught it on a glue trap, and could not separate it, I seem to remember. And I am sure there was some unused sticky surface on that glue trap, so a burning branch or smth could get glued to it.
Thursday, January 12th, 2006 06:19 pm (UTC)
Unlikely still.

Here is a mouse.
And here is a house.
And here is a burning mouse in a burning house.

La-la-la...
Thursday, January 12th, 2006 06:30 pm (UTC)
;-) Cigarettes burn houses all the time, while being much smaller than mice, and being unable to move on their own will ;-) Why unlikely? ;-)
Friday, January 13th, 2006 02:34 am (UTC)
With cigarettes, one has to be around flammable material, and there is plenty of that in bedrooms. Which portion of the house did the flaming mouse go to?
Friday, January 13th, 2006 02:51 am (UTC)
I don't know. The mice can run pretty fast. Well, Googling for

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mouse+fire

yields some interesting results. Like that the man changed his story back, so he says again that it was the mouse:

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/mousefire.asp
http://www.newsday.com/sns-ap-mouse-fire,0,702114.story

or that the alternative version was that some burning leaves or flames from them got into the house, which is equally suspect (not a frequent cause of fire in the reports we see).

mouse house
not a mouse
not a house
mouse
not a house
whatever...
Friday, January 13th, 2006 03:51 am (UTC)
Burning mouse
In a house
Gives me a pause.