Greatest Generation my ass.
"Luciano Mares was just trying to protect his cats. He didn’t want them to eat the mouse he caught in a glue trap, so he tossed the mouse into a pile of weeds he was burning outside his home on Saturday afternoon.

The world knows the rest of the story by now. The mouse caught fire, escaped its trap, then ran back at the house and set it ablaze, destroying its contents. "

Good for that mouse. If you saw a little kid throwing a live mouse into a fire, you'd at least stop that kid, right? But what Gramps did was OK, because, you know:

“He said the mouse wasn’t dead and it took off,” the younger Mares said. He added: “We’re really devastated. We lost all photos of our family, all his papers. He’s a veteran of World War II. He’s been through a lot.”

And this is the third house burnt down by the elderly this week. Next Devil's Night, the Detroit police should just round up all the elderly as a preventive measure.