Titled: Mouse Thrown Into Fire Sets Home Ablaze
This story caught my eye as it ran its way around the blogosphere. In case you didn't catch it, a mouse got instant 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 burnt it down.
In all the versions I found so far, no-one seems to question the actions of the homeowner for disposing of a live mouse on a burning leaf-pile. Before you think I'm a member of People Eating Tasty Animals PETA, I have nothing against the destruction of pests in a reasonably humane manner and am an active advocate of hunting. Why he didn't just whap it with a shovel rather than set it on fire, I'll probably never know.
Methods aside, the little critter did a great job reducing the guy's home to ashes.