This is my entry for a competition being run by 
What The Crowd Thought Was A Good Idea
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Matilda who lived by the sea. Every day, she would take her dog, Steemy, for a walk along the beach and collect sea shells because she was just that cute!
But there was one morning when she found something else that came out of the ocean and it was even more amazing than any shell. It was a huge block of ice with a polar bear frozen inside.
“That's Rexmiihed, the king of the polar bears!”, exclaimed Steemy.
Matilda had heard of this monarch who was renowned for his generosity. “If we can set him free, he will surely reward us,” she thought to herself. She knew that help would be needed.
She called her local radio station and asked them to run the story in the lunchtime news, making sure that they made a request for volunteers to help melt the ice.
It worked! Fifty people came to help, armed to the teeth with cups of coffee, spicy curries and petrol bombs. Matilda gave the order - “have at it!” And so began The Great Conflagration of Crypto Beach.
But the ice was so incredibly cold that it wouldn't melt. The volunteers began to mutter. “I know, let's carry the ice to the top of the volcano and throw it in. That will definitely be hot enough to release King Rexmiihed”, said Steemy. In the back of their minds, they knew it was a gamble, but everyone upvoted that idea. They hoisted the iceblock onto their shoulders and off they went.
They threw the frozen polar bear into the volcano.
The ice melted.
The polar bear died screaming.
The volunteers regretted not paying more attention to the fact that they were gambling, but it was too late.