Crazy Story

For those learning the Rambam one ch. a day, the Rambam for 24 Av is Ch. 7 of Talmud Torah.  In the יתד האמן מוסף שבת קודש edition for פקודי תשע"ו they have a crazy story printed.  The קמ"ל of the story is nice, but how how the story makes sense is something else.  (I saw the story copied in one of the comments to Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson's Rambam shiur and tracked the source of the article via Otzar Hachachma.)