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LA GRANDE, Ore. -- A mouse found inside an automatic teller machine -- along with a nest it had built with chewed-up $20 bills -- gave an Oregon gas station employee the surprise of her life.

The mouse, discovered Thursday, had thoroughly torn up two bills and damaged another 14 to line his nest. Employee Millie Taylor says she screamed and slammed the machine's door shut.

The bank replaced all the money that wasn't extensively damaged, and the ATM has continued to work just fine. The mouse also got a reprieve: He was evicted from his nest but set free outside the station.

Where did the 9 BILLION go that is unaccounted for in Iraq? Mice. Where did the bailout money actually go when handed to the banks? Mice. Where did the money grabbed by Enron and Madoff go? Mice.

Those damned mice got everything!....

Or do I mean rats?

Ah HA! See? I predicted this!

Remember the floodwaters sending millions of mice into Chinese towns?

Well lookee here:

The Information Times, a newspaper based in Guangzhou, the provincial capital of Guangdong, reported that trucks from Hunan had been seen delivering crates of black market mice by night to an illegal wild animal market in Guangzhou.

Mouse is turning up on restaurant menus in nearby cities, the paper reported.

The reports have alarmed health officials. Guangzhou's wild animal market is illegal for a reason: Scientists are convinced that SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, first broke out in humans in Guangdong, among people who had eaten wild civet cat.

Since then, cooking and eating wild animals such as field mice has not been allowed.

Anyone think we'd better be checking Chinese food products for mystery meat any time soon?

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2 Billion Chinese Mice Overrun Lake Area

The mouse invasion began on June 23 when the Yangtze River flooded, raising the water level in central China's Dongting Lake and submerging mouse holes on lake islands, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Now, an estimated 2 billion mice are ravaging crops in 22 counties around the lake, and authorities were rushing to construct walls and ditches to keep the rodents out. Residents have killed more than 2.3 million field mice - or 90 tons of the rodents, Xinhua said.

In Hunan province's Yiyang County, a ditch along the lakeshore was filled with mice. Residents were using clubs and shovels to beat them to death, while others scooped the furry animals out using fishing nets.

Mice have already damaged dikes and ruined crops in areas where authorities were slow to build walls and ditches, Xinhua said.

90 TONS? Are we talking about this size?

or this?


Either way, that's a lot of pissed off Chinese mice.

Everyone involved will need therapy

Peterborough, England (AHN) - A stray cat had his head stuck in a jar after he tried to pull a mouse out of a jam jar in Peterborough, England.

A motorist sought police assistance after finding the cat wandering beside a road, with the jar on its head and the mouse a few millimeters from its mouth.

Officers at the Thorpe Wood police station said the incident reminds them of the cartoon, the "Tom and Jerry show."

But, the three officers and one receptionist who responded to the call were not able to free the animal when they tried twisting its head from the jar. The cat eventually freed itself by smashing the jar on the floor.

A police spokeswoman said, "It was like a scene from 'Tom and Jerry.' I don't think anyone had ever seen anything like it before. The mouse ran off, it's still running around Thorpe Wood police station somewhere."