Last week, Mark posted about a mouse that was thrown into a pile of burning leaves and then allegedly got its revenge by burning down its killer's house. It sounded too good (well, at least too strange) to be true. On Monday, the mouse's murderer, 81-year-old Luciano Mares, apparently told an Albuquerque TV station that wind, not the rodent, brought the outside fire to his home. But then on Tuesday, he stood by his original story that it was all the mouse's fault. He claims that the mouse was caught in a glue trap and so he threw the whole thing into a leaf fire outside. From the Associated Press:
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," Chavez said. "I don't doubt it at all."
