Of all of the things connected to your PC, your mouse would be the last thing you'd expect to set itself alight. But that was the reality redditor lommelinn faced after they reportedly found their gaming mouse alight on their desk while their PC was in sleep mode — and it almost “burned down” their apartment.

A user at r/PCMR shared a shocking incident with the Gigabyte M6880X optical mouse, which purportedly caught on fire and burnt to a crisp. The mouse is reduced to a melted shell with visible streaks of char spread across the table.