Ah, small town news. Ya gotta love it. Perhaps the best part was how his spit cup put out the fire. Priceless.

The local paper where we live in Kentucky once ran a HUGE, above the fold front page story about...wait for it...the "alarmingly" high number of squirrel squishings on local roads. The writer was completely serious. They even found a large picture of a squirrel with a look of complete terror on its face and its little mouth wide open, as if screaming. The headline was something like "Highways of Death?"

My wife and I still think that is the funniest news item we've ever seen.

LOL! I thought they only did stuff like that down here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8

Be sure to check out the detailed sketch of the person interest in that video.

'person OF interest'

Stupid keyboard.

We gots some of them suicide squirrels too!

And Mrs Who, that was plain silly!, I'm disappointed they didn't get any actual video of the perp... bet my daughter could play that "flute"- heehee