There are few things scarier for a PC gamer than the possibility of one of your peripherals spontaneously combusting and scorching your furniture.
Thankfully combustion isn't a common issue in the community, but if Reddit user lommelinn's recent experience is anything to go by, it's not completely unheard of, either.
According to lommelinn, they found their Gigabyte mouse «burning with large flames». «Black smoke filled the room. I quickly extinguished the fire, but exhaled a lot of smoke in the process and my room is in a bad shape now, covered with black particles (my modular synth as well).
Fortunately we avoided the worst, but the fact that this can happen is still shocking.» The mouse in question, which the user calls «an older, wired optical mouse from Gigabyte», is actually the Gigabyte M6880X, as we can see from the picture of its underside.
That is, indeed, an older mouse, but while it's technically still optical, it's probably better described as a laser mouse to distinguish it from infrared ones.