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  1. 01-10-2006, 13:06 #1
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    Default note to self: never throw a mouse....

    into a shelter campfire......even if he was in your food bag!


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4593682.stm
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  2. 01-10-2006, 13:08 #2
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    Beeeeeautiful!!!
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    I've never laughed so hard in my life. Goat, that was too funny.
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    Lol, wow...Chalk one up for mouse-kind
    "For, after all, time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die." Donald C. Peattie


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    Karma's a bitch ...
    you left to walk the appalachian trail
    you can feel your heart as smooth as a snail
    the mountains your darlings
    but better to love than have something to scale

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    I've heard of a "house on fire" ...but never a "mouse on fire". Guess in this case it was one in the same thing.

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    Did the paramedics manage to save the mouse?

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    unfortunately it appears the story was seriously wrong - see link: http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/n...14/detail.html
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    Of course he's going to take back the story. He's now famous as an idiot scumbag.
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    Quote Originally Posted by the goat
    into a shelter campfire......even if he was in your food bag! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4593682.stm
    I had an obnoxious brother-in-law once who used to laugh about how "funny" it was the time he dipped a cat in gasoline and lit it on fire.

    The cat ran into a barn and burned down both the barn and the farmer's winter supply of hay for his dairy cows.

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    That dude was still an idiot to be burning leaves in high winds in New Mexico during a drought and a period of rampant wildfires. He's a moron by either vector..
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    Reports that the initial report was seriously wrong may be seriously wrong!
    http://articles.news.aol.com/news/ar..._ccc=6&cid=842


    A blow struck for mice everywhere?
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    it appears the mouse did get the last laugh!
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    like QHShowoman said.... Karma.... it's a beautiful thing...
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    I hate to be a spoilsport, and I'm no great defender of mice, but I find it hard to laugh at a story that involves someone purposely burning an animal to death.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Colter
    I hate to be a spoilsport, and I'm no great defender of mice, but I find it hard to laugh at a story that involves someone purposely burning an animal to death.
    Me too. Sorry to be a party poop.
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    I am speachless!
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    Question vermin

    Quote Originally Posted by Colter
    I hate to be a spoilsport, and I'm no great defender of mice, but I find it hard to laugh at a story that involves someone purposely burning an animal to death.
    Mice are vermin, Colter. They serve a purpose, but not when they're trying to nibble me to death in a shelter. They deserve to die. Perhaps an illustration will help:

    Us: Humans
    Them: Animals

    I found the story of the guy who killed something like 30 mice with a mousetrap baited with peanut butter overnight in a shelter seriously hardcore. That guy deserves a medal as far as I'm concerned.

    I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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    Mice, rats, meadow voles, shrews, etc.... are generally referred to as 'buffer species' in that they can reproduce very rapidly and provide a constant and renewable supply of food for a variety of higher organisms. Nothing wrong with their demise...PROVIDED....

    THAT THE ORGANISM WHO KILLS THEM CONSUMES THEM!!

    An old adage says: You can kill anything you want here: provided you eat what you kill and kill nothing you won't eat.

    Bon apetit.
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