Flaming squirrel ignites car

A kamikaze squirrel fell from the sky and detonated a Bayonne woman's car yesterday, police.

Lindsey Millar, 23, and her brother, Tony, 22, were both home Wednesday at about 12:45 p.m. when Lindsey's car suddenly started burning outside their 42nd Street home.

Tony Millar said firefighters told them it was the work of a buck-toothed saboteur that had been gnawing on overhead power lines connected to a transformer directly above the 2006 Toyota Camry.

"The squirrel chewed through the wire, was set on fire, fell down directly to where the car was," Tony Millar said. "The squirrel, on fire, slid into the engine compartment and blew up the car. They're always coming around here, chewing through the garbage."

Police said there were no injuries - except for the squirrel, that is, which is dead.