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. — Sapa-AFP