No one can answer even the boy. But, because the story is so interesting, it catches the attention of the local government as well as local media. As a matter of fact, the whole town is now convinced that there is something down the lake.
So, in order to support their guess, there is a club which is composed of local war history enthusiastic who leads the investigation and decided to pull out that “thing” out if the lake. In cooperation with the local authorities, they successfully pull it out. It is a tank which seems to be one of the things captured by the German during the war. There are certain rumors saying that the authorities who discovered it managed to put some diesel in it to test its functionalities.
How about you? If you are the boy, would you do the same thing as he did? Are you going to follow your instinct or would you just ignore it? Sometimes, our human instinct, one of the best weapons against life-threatening danger, directs us into the pathway of facts.
Though, it is not an acceptable reason in any of the courts around the world, but it will still give you the urge feeling that you need to discover the truth, by hook or by crook.
Sometimes, not all of the cats are being killed by its curiosity; the curiosity itself will save the cat from being killed, right?