Originally published at: Mouse jumps on man's back. Man panics. Amused family laughs too hard to help (video) - Boing Boing
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Funny how headline writers see the world differently…
I observed no panic or terror.
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Or laughing. But I had the sound off, so ymmv.
I imagine if he actually had bare-hand caught the mouse there may have been some panic. Meeses do not hesitate to bite.
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Absolutely. Gloves at the very least, some sort of box or container even better.
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Back in the mid 90s a similar episode happened to me.
Early evening in the winter, lived with cats ( 5 of them ) and we spotted a mouse sat on the hearth of the fire washing itself.
I decided to try and save the rodent so aproached and it zipped under a shelf unit in the alcove next to the fire place.
so i gets down and lays on the floor and its there in the corner washing itself.
So, we had had a bit of a smoke and i was running at maybe 75% normal operating speed but that did’nt seem like a big issue. I reached under the shelves and it was a good straight on mousey target grab. At this point reality seemed to slow down a bit and as my hand closed on the mouse he simply jumped onto my hand, ran up my arm ( hand is still closing at this point in a sort of slow motion buzz), over my sholder and leaps away…
Obviously the ungratful little sod was dispatched by a cat a few moments later…
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The bendy dance is the classic panic reaction of the middle-aged northerner.
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Who wouldn’t panic if a moose jumped on their back?
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I keep misreading the headline as moose jumps on man’s back rather than mouse… so, of course, I think of this video…
It’s all in the pronunciation
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