Remember the childhood cartoon gimmick featuring a small rodent turning a wheel to power some mad scientist's latest creation? Or a popular children's show featuring a miniature band that played music inside a jukebox? Rare is the occasion that Truthahol writers encounter a truth so like the stuff of fiction that publication seems redundant.  Truthahol has recently corroborated several first-person accounts which indicate that the childhood fancies of small rodents turning wheels in the depths of common machinery are far less fancy than most kids could guess.

Truthahol has obtained several documents, including invoices, statements, shipping bills and other trade paraphernalia, which prove a vendor-client relationship between a leading animal research lab and a prominent, ostensibly solar-powered electronics manufacturer. The evidence shows that discarded or unwanted rats, mice, and other small animals are being sold to the unnamed 'solar-powered' company. This company has created an industry reputation as one of the few in its field to use alternative energy almost exclusively.

Our sources indicate that much of this alternative energy derives not from the sun, the wind, or scientific innovation. At least 60% of the company's daily operating energy at its main plant is derived from millions of tiny feet spinning millions of shiny, occasionally squeaky wheels. One source stated, "You wouldn't believe it at first. Have you ever seen thousands of hamsters simultaneously running on their wheels? And the noise is nearly deafening--all the squeaking."

The efficiency of such a scheme is suspect, to say the least. Given the cost of pet food, oil for wheels, human monitors to feed and water these tiny workhorses, and the potential for disaster should an uprising occur, one surmises there must be hidden variables at work alongside these hidden Cricetidae.