January 20, 2006

Rats

This is really sad:

BEMIDJI, Minn. — A woman is dead and a man hospitalized after a squirrel became lodged in a pipe between the furnace and the chimney, causing propane fumes to enter a rural Bemidji home.
Of all the people who should die with a rodent stuck up their pipe...it wasn't this woman.

No word, by the way, on the condition of the squirrel.

Posted by Cathy at January 20, 2006 08:23 AM
Comments

The squirrel might be okay if he had one of Kevin's toilet snorkels.

Or maybe not.

Posted by: aelfheld at January 20, 2006 09:11 AM

That happened in my old house in St. Paul. The squirrel got stuck in the vent for the waterheater...long story. Every time I used hot water there was this awful odor. When we found him...I assume he first got carbon monoxide poisoning and the horrible smell was baked squirrel. It wasn't pretty!

Posted by: Deann P. at January 20, 2006 03:10 PM

Oh Deann, you poor woman. Ick!

Posted by: Cathy at January 20, 2006 04:46 PM