Reflections of a stormy petrel

So the world heard that a man had made a better mousetrap; and, of course, the world beat a path to his door.

The world had to break it down, because the inventor could not hear it. He was lying on the floor with his head stove in.

Investigations led to an alliance of mice and traditional mousetrap makers. But the investigators found it convenient to let the culprits go - except for one of the more unpopular mice, who was hanged as a scapegoat - because now they had nobody else who could make mousetraps.