A German Court on Monday dropped a case against three teenagers whose festive firecrackers outside an eastern German farm, allegedly, not only scared an ostrich but also made the bird impotent. Rico Gabel, the owner of the farm in Lohsa, northeast of Dresden, had charged that the boys should pay for the losses he incurred due to the impotency of the bird.

After hearing a testimony from an ostrich expert that said there was no connection between the noise and the lack of offspring, the court ordered the teens to only pay $188 that Gabel spent on his ostrich's vet costs, according to the AP reports.

Rico had claimed that an ostrich on his farm lost its sexual desire after being scared off by the fireworks set off by the boys, ages 17-18, between Dec. 27 and 29, 2005.

Although Gustav the ostrich regained his sex drive in the second half of the year, Rico sued the boys for the lost income from the 14 expected baby ostriches that would have otherwise been born from the ostrich's two breeding partners. Since each bird could have earned him $470, it brought his claim total to $6,580.