Herve Vandrot, a French amateur psychic studying botanics at Edinburgh University, came home to his flat to find it burning. Firefighters said the blaze, which also destroyed two other flats and damaged several others, was caused by Vandrot's crystal ball.
The best part of this article in the London Times was how much fun the reporter, Alan Hamilton, apparently had pointing out that Vandrot hadn't predicted the fire.
Instead of predicting that his flat would catch fire, the fortune-telling device was the cause of the blaze.
The student, who uses the ball for psychic purposes, suffered blistering to his hand when he burst into his burning top-floor flat in the city’s Marchmont area in an effort to rescue his university course work. He was removed from the building by some of the 35 firefighters who had arrived to tackle the unforeseen inferno.
Vandrot said he believed the fire was caused by an electrical fault.
Edinburgh’s firefighters disagreed, and roundly blamed the ball. “Strong sunlight through glass, particularly if the glass is filled with liquid like a goldfish bowl, concentrates the sun’s rays and acts like a magnifying glass,” a spokesman said. The fire had been started by the ball concentrating a ray of sunshine on a pile of washing, he said.
I'm not quite sure what the lesson is here, but let that be a lesson to you.
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