Dismal Seepage, Iowa has a lot of cornfields-(that's why their football
team is called the Kernels). Anyhow, it is a widely know factoid that
cornfields attract lightning.
There was this guy near us who couldn't make a go of it as a farmer, so
he went a little nutty and built a baseball diamond on his place.
Darned if old timers didn't start showing up in their uniforms ready for a
pick-up game.
Well, one night, late August, a whole bunch of geezers show up. They look like they had just
emerged from the grave, they were so "vintage". So the game gets going real
good and.....Kaaaaaa-Booooom!!! Lightning strike takes 'em all out. Nothing left but a
smouldering crater and about a zillion tons of popped corn. Seems the idiot farmer had
not tilled his surrounding fields under and because of the several rainstorms we'd had
that summer he had accidently grown what turned out to be a bumper crop of pop corn.
I recollect some talk a while back about a book or movie project based upon that idiot farmer;
but most of us have always felt no one would believe the story so we have just kind of kept it
local.