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| Mouse Absconds With Maine Man's Dentures |
| 2007-03-25 |
| WATERVILLE, Maine -- Never underestimate a mouse's determination. There's a mouse in Bill Exner's house that he says he has captured three times. Each time, the mouse escaped, and the last time the rodent made off with his lower dentures. WTH is this-- Catch And Release??? Just kill the damn thing. Exner, 68, said he and his wife Shirley scoured his bedroom after the dentures disappeared from his night stand. "We moved the bed, moved the dressers and the night stand and tore the closet apart," he said. "I said, 'I knew that little stinker stole my teeth' -- I just knew it." They found a small opening in a wall where they suspected the mouse was coming and going, and their daughter's fiance, Eric Holt, stepped in to help. "He brought a crowbar and hammer and he sawed off a section of wood and pulled up the molding and everything," Exner said. "It was quite a job." They retrieved the dentures, and Holt suggested his future father-in-law boil them in peroxide and whatever else he could find for to disinfect it. Hint: be sure to get all the little black specks out... The mouse apparently isn't done. It frequently comes out and stares at Exner, his wife said. Mouse Psyops. Messin' with your heads, that's what he's doing. "He's taunting him -- I swear he's taunting him," Shirley Exner said. Mice: why do they-- nevermind... |
| Posted by:Dave D. |
| #9 my mom's dentures were chewed up by our little dog when she left them on the bedside table. It was terrible, as she never was able to get another set that fit her well. |
| Posted by: Jan 2007-03-25 22:55 |
| #8 I've got just the cat for the job. He doesn't play with his food - he kills it and eats it. He then goes out into the woodshed and upchucks all over the soft pine. Luckily I have half a cord of elm and some apple from a neighbor's blighted tree... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-03-25 15:01 |
| #7 LOL Mr. James, now that's funny. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-25 13:34 |
| #6 Okay, here's what you do; first get a crossbow, a choke cable, and several clamps of different sizes, and some 2x4s. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-03-25 12:46 |
| #5 We're in yur wallz peein on yur teef |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-03-25 11:04 |
| #4 You mean the "Mouse Psyops"? You may be right. Either art imitates life or life imitates art in this case. It is possible that the mouse watched T&J cartoons peeking from its hole and "got ideas". |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-03-25 08:01 |
| #3 Wasn't this a Tom & Jerry cartoon? |
| Posted by: Mike 2007-03-25 07:14 |
| #2 Yes, my cat is utterly insensitive to mouse's suffering. He seems to rather enjoy it. So what? |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-03-25 06:09 |
| #1 They need a cat. I think I'll send them Brynner. He corrals mouse into a corner, and then sits and watches the mouse get a hard attack from fright. Wish he was a bit bigger and that I could convince him jihadis are shapeshifted mice. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2007-03-25 01:33 |