Crystal ball causes flat to burn down

A fire sparked by a crystal ball caused a woman’s house to burn down in the UK. While the crystal ball was only worth about £20, the damage to the house was estimated at £10,000.

Kim Yeates, 53, bought the 4 inch crystal ball and placed it on her window sill, but the object refracted the sun’s rays onto her TV, which caused it to overheat and explode. The resulting fire spread to her sofa and soon her entire 1st floor flat was on fire, and her neighbor Neil Clarke alerted the firemen after initially thinking Kim was trapped in the flat.

Kim was away at the time, and returned home to find everything devastated.

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