Runaway Farm Tractor

Village Destroyed By Runaway Farm Tractor
Yaounde, Cameroon. June 16, 2009. New Zealand Voice + Me

Yaounde Interior Ministry officials confirmed the 'near total loss' of the small agricultural outpost at Masabe when the tractor that was recently donated by the French Missionary Alliance, Il Pleure Il Pleure, was taken amok by 8 year old Kintabi.

The boy was seen sitting in the operator's seat making motor sounds on several occasions and was warned each time that he was not to touch the machine.

Kintabi would stand at the end of a field watching the large wheels turn and the plow blades cut the soil, said his mother. "He run along with the machine, shouting he was a farmer too."

Village elder, Jimi Callali said that all of the destruction was not surprising because, "We all know that it takes a child to raze a village."

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