At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what had happened next. The flame ignited a pocket of residual gas and a flame shot out the pipe igniting Mr. Stone's mustache and severely burned his face. It also set fire to the pet rat's fur and whiskers which, in turn, ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the exhaust pipe which propelled the rodent out like a cannonball. Stone suffered second-degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the pet rat. His son was grounded for 6 weeks.
Nobody knows the fate of Vermin.