The Gods Must be Crazy!

Have you ever seen the movie "The Gods Must be Crazy"? If have not seen this classic, it's a movie where a pilot drops a coke bottle out of his plane near a small bushman tribe in Africa. They find the bottle and find that it is useful that they began fighting over it and it quickly becomes a big problem. The head bushman decides that the bottle must go and takes off to throw it off the end of the earth (the ocean).

The next event of Martin's accidental arson spree took place within a year of the previous incident and is reminiscent of the bushman tribe's tribulations brought about by the exact same object. Martin and his brother found a coke bottle on his street and decided to play baseball with it. Martin ended up knocking it into a neighbor's wheatfield ending their coke bottle baseball game. The difference between Martin's story and the movie was that Martin's problems did not begin until after the coke bottle was disposed of. Apparently, when the bottle went into the neighbor's field it was summer time and conditions were hot and dry. Somehow the bottle magnified the rays of the sun and a few hours later the wheatfield was ablaze. It ended up taking out about 75% of the neighbor's crop. The fire department identified that it was the coke bottle that started fire, but Martin was never identified as the culprit. Martin finds solace in the fact that the neighbor had insurance, so all of the loss was covered and it saved them considerable harvest work.