Psychic's crystal ball burns down his flat in unforeseen blaze

[davidinalameda]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C2-1731541%2C00.html

IF HERVE VANDROT, a French amateur psychic, took out a warranty on his crystal ball, he may soon be claiming on it. Instead of predicting that his flat would catch fire, the fortune-telling device was the cause of the blaze.

M Vandrot, 24, who is studying botanics at Edinburgh University, left the ball on his windowsill while he visited the city’s Royal Botanic Garden. By the time he returned, the ball had destroyed his own and two other flats, and had left several others uninhabitable.

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.


I feel really bad for the people who lost their homes, but you admit, this is amusing

[JAbuchan08]

1. He never saw it coming

I guess you could call that ironic...

[davidinalameda]

3. to say the least

[seriousstan]

2. Not only can he not see the future, he can't see the present.

"M Vandrot, released from hospital after a night having his hand treated, denied that his crystal ball had been the cause of the blaze. “I don’t think it is capable of doing that. I think it was an electrical fault; the plug of my computer was melted.” "


Perhaps he should study a little more....
http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~wise/wise187/janfeb2004/reports/kira/

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