Via Rob Fahrni, I found this truly bizarre CNN story - a man tried to burn a mouse, and lost his house instead:

A mouse got its revenge against a homeowner who tried to dispose of it in a pile of burning leaves. The blazing creature ran back to the man's house and set it on fire.

I'm getting flashbacks to those margarine ads from the 70's - the ones where the woman (playing Mother Nature) would taste the margarine, and then say (ominously) "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" when she was informed that it wasn't butter...