Defective Mouse Traps a Fire Hazard

On Saturday morning, January 21, 2006, Luciano Mares was burning brush in his backyard barbeque. As a bonus he found a dang mouse on a glue trap in his house. He was pleased -- mice were a nuisance, they'd been bothering him for some time, leaving droppings everywhere. Unlike bat droppings, which do not pertify and actually turn to dust, mouse droppings are like a bee's stinky poop (a bee's smelly feces)....and they were hard to get rid of!

This mouse, too, was resilient -- trapped but still moving. The glue was sticky; he couldn't pull the mouse off....so he did what any brush burning man would do...he tossed the mouse into the fire. The fire melted the glue and the dang mouse ran into the house and set it on fire. Authorities are looking into making glue traps safer for home use. Velcro and elastic are being considered.