Texas Mouse Takes Its Own Life by Jumping Into Deep-Fryer in Dramatic Video

A viral video shows how some decisions in life can take a bad turn, as an unwelcome visitor at a Whataburger could testify—if he only lived to tell.

A guest at the burger joint in Bastrop, Texas, Brushawn Lewis, filmed the incident and said he spotted the invader himself first.

The footage shows a mouse running to and fro on the kitchen counter, playing hide and seek with one of the staff. When a female employee chases the mouse out of his hideout by lifting and removing some of the food containers on the board, the mouse takes a dramatic decision and jumps into the deep-fryer to great dismay of the terrified kitchen staff.

Lewis commented on his Facebook post saying: "This [expletive] is crazy I'm at Whataburger in Bastrop Tx. It's a damn rat just out in the open! But it did get deep-fried!"

He realized the plastic clips were not only being shifted around, but they were also put away nicely in an old ice cream tub filled with peanuts, which he used to feed the birds.

It happened every night for a month. And each night, more objects scattered on his workbench were arranged in the tub.

“One day I emptied the tub out and spread the contents on the side—and the next day they were all back in again,” he said, according to MailOnline.

To get to the bottom of the mystery, he asked his neighbor, Rodney Holbrook, 70, to set up a hidden camera.

Much to Mckears’s relief, the footage showed a hardworking mouse picking up plastic clips, screws, nuts, and bolts in its mouth from around midnight to 2:30 a.m. The rodent carefully deposited them in the ice cream tub.

He calls the tiny rodent a “Brexit mouse.” The reason? “Because he’s been stockpiling for Brexit,” he said.

Meanwhile, Holbrook, an avid wildlife photographer, named the mouse “Metal Mickey.”

The “Brexit mouse” is still busy cleaning up the mess to this day, but Mckears doesn’t mind at all as long as the house-proud critter doesn’t invite more friends back to his shed.