I have another mouse story, but be warned I am issuing a possible tasteless alert ...
My buddy has been an EMT for a few years. During his first week a few years ago the paramedics started noticing that every call he went to the unfortunate victim ended up dying. As folks in the field tend to develop a dark sense of humour to deal with the realities of the job, he was lovingly given the nickname "the reaper".
One night he went to the scene of a drunk driver who had decided to wrap himself around a tree with very obvious results. They put the body on a gurney, covered it and placed it on a tire in the ditch to keep it out of the way. As my friend is walking by the tire, a mouse runs out from it and scurries up his leg. Of course, given that my friend was focused on his streak of dead people, he naturally assumed that the dead man had fully zombified and decided to reach out and grab his ankle.
According to various paramedic sources, his reaction was among the most legendary they had ever seen.
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