Rocky the Frying Squirrel

A squirrel gives his all in the "buy American" campaign:

Lindsey Millar, 23, and her brother, Tony, 22, were both home Wednesday at about 12:45 p.m. when Lindsey's car suddenly started burning outside their 42nd Street home.

Tony Millar 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.

This might also explain how the fires in Malibu got started, except that the squirrels up there all have agents and publicists, and if one of them had started the fire I would have gotten a press release by now.