Psychic fails to predict great ball of fire.

A French amateur psychic's powers of prediction were under sharp scrutiny after his crystal ball started an inferno that burnt out his flat, a British newspaper reported on Friday. The fortune-telling device had caused a fire that destroyed two other flats and rendered several more uninhabitable, The Times said. Herve Vandrot, 24, who studies botany at Edinburgh University, left his trusty crystal ball on a windowsill while he sauntered off to the city's Royal Botanical Garden. He returned surprised to find his top floor flat ablaze and suffered blistering to a hand after dashing in to rescue some coursework. He was dragged out of the building by some of the 35 firefighters who rushed to tackle the inferno. Vandrot had only been in the flat for two weeks. After a night in hospital, he insisted the crystal ball was not to blame.