Of mice and Associated Press

Remember the Mouse setting a house on fire story? Well it was an urban legend.

A small-town rumor that sparked world-wide interest about a mouse burning down a house has been found to be untrue.

The mouse story, however, has been doused by Mares.

"It's really humorous more than anything that a mouse burned down the house," he told KOAT-TV in Albuquerque. The mouse was dead when it hit the burning leaves.

Mares said he trapped and killed the critter and tossed it on the fire.

The flames, he said, probably reached his house because they were driven by high winds.

Capt. Jim Lyssy of the Fort Sumner Fire Department said the rumor probably got started because there was "a little too much excitement" at the time of the fire.

Anyone who reads TFM regularly knows my penchant for posting odd or silly news. Click here for a most recent example. I never posted the story. Pardon the pun, but I smelled a rat. Some stories just seem too far fetched.

Great work AP, we can't even trust you to get a house fire story right.

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Update- I forgot to hat tip Hooah wife for sending me the link to the urban legends website. Thanks Greta.