something similar happened in elgin oklahoma. when i was in high school two neighborhood brothers who always tortured stray dogs and cats. well one day they found a cat and decided to tie a paper bag on the cats tail and lite it on fire. well the cat ran like hell...........and under their trailer. the cat managed to get away, but not before catching the trailer on fire. that story even made the nightly news with dan rather back in the summer of 83 or 84. (can't remember what yr.)
freakin hysterical.