Mouse That Snored Was a Real Crackup
A man driving on an interstate highway was attacked by a mouse that apparently had been sleeping in the heater vent of his car and got too hot.
As a result, Walter Miller’s car ended up in a ditch near Billings on Monday night, and the mouse ended up dead.
Patrolman Dallas Adkins said Miller, 59, of Silesia, was driving home on Interstate 90 when the mouse sprang from the dashboard, landed on his shirt and scampered up inside his coat. That caused Miller to let go of the wheel and grab for the mouse, Adkins said. Miller squeezed the mouse to death, but he lost control of the car and skidded off the road into the snow.
He wasn’t hurt, but there was $500 damage to the car and four highway reflector posts.
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