'Ware the Flaming Squirrel!

Apparently a New Jersey woman did not heed those words of wisdom: "Flaming squirrel ignites car".

Tony Millar [the woman's brother] said firefighters told them it was the work of a buck-toothed saboteur that had been gnawing on overhead power lines connected to a transformer directly above the 2006 Toyota Camry.

"The squirrel chewed through the wire, was set on fire, fell down directly to where the car was," Tony Millar said. "The squirrel, on fire, slid into the engine compartment and blew up the car."

Apparently flaming squirrels are a wider problem than one might at first imagine: "Squirrel fires regular occurrence in Canadian border town".

Also, if one enters the search term "flaming squirrel" into Google image search, what one finds this: squirrel paint by number.

A sidenote: I'm out of Athens this weekend, hanging out with my future in-laws. I am eating exceptionally well, and discovered this fascinating diversion: 20Q. This thing is frighteningly good: it guessed "leprechaun" and "venus flytrap", for instance. Try it!