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    Told to me by my mother, a District Court judge. She couldn't stop laughing when she was telling me about it. And I guess this would be considered her type of "customer," since those are the people she deals with everyday.

    So a guy is charged with disorderly conduct and resisting a public officer because he wandered into the courthouse for seemingly no reason, started raising hell and trying to fight the police when they were trying to escort him out (they checked--his name was not on any of the dockets, so there's no telling why he was there, they couldn't get a reason out of him.) So a couple days after, for his first court date, as he's walking through the metal detector he drops something wrapped in napkins. They showed the surveillence video in court: no napkin covered thing on the floor one minute, but as he walks by it appears.

    They unwrap it. It's a severed chicken leg. Not like "I went to KFC and got some fried chicken legs," like, "I'm freakin' nuts and I cut off a chicken's leg to take to the courthouse with me."

    As they're showing the video? The guy stands up and starts trying to put a voodoo curse on everyone in the courtroom. I'm not sure exactly what he said, but apparently it backfired; he's in jail now.
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  • #2
    Jail? The guy should have been shipped immediately to the nearest psych ward. Why did he drop the chicken leg? It wouldn't have set off the metal detectors.. LOL
    GK/Kara/Jester fangirl.

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    • #3
      The general consensus was that he was on drugs.
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      • #4
        Gosh. You think?
        "Wouldn't that be unethical?"
        "That's only an issue for those who aren't already in Hell."
        --Dilbert

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        • #5
          Amateur. I have an actual mummified chicken's foot I keep in my bag when I'm doing the fortuneteller speil in SCA settings. I wave it at people who I think need a good curse thrown their way.




          What?

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          • #6
            Quoth RecoveringKinkoid View Post
            Amateur. I have an actual mummified chicken's foot I keep in my bag when I'm doing the fortuneteller speil in SCA settings. I wave it at people who I think need a good curse thrown their way.

            What?

            Do you do request? Becuase I got a list of SC's and Co-irkers names right here and well...
            Last edited by KMMCurly; 02-25-2008, 10:57 PM.
            "Honestly officer, he asked for a shot and I gave him one. Why do you need the handcuffs?" - MannersMakethMan

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            • #7
              Oh, of course. I put the curse on, one of my tribeswomen takes it off. For a fee, of course.

              Actually, ideally, someone would pay to sic me on someone. I'd curse them, get paid, then said kinswomen come and remove curse. Get paid again.

              (It's all in fun, of course!)

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              • #8
                Kinkoid, I LOVE that idea.

                Mind if I pass it on to the local SCA people? I dont know if we have any fortune teller types but we have a few interested in gypsie stuff. If anything my Jester persona could do it (Beign a Jester, I can do whatever I want!)

                It also could be a good way to raise money for charity... kind of like that 'pay to have a cop sit in a cage in the parade thing' that they do.
                Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?

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                • #9
                  All this reminds me of the Australian Soccer Team Curse.

                  What's not noted in the wiki (at time of writing) is that they lost 4-0 in their first game after the curse was lifted.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Horsetuna View Post

                    It also could be a good way to raise money for charity... kind of like that 'pay to have a cop sit in a cage in the parade thing' that they do.
                    my personal favorite fund raiser is where they have people "thrown in jail" and can only get out when enough bail is raised... I remember my mother volunteered for that once... she asked how much I'd donate to her bail and I told her I was planning on a party that weekend (yeah, i was a pain in the ass as a teenager)
                    If you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Horsetuna View Post
                      Kinkoid, I LOVE that idea.

                      Mind if I pass it on to the local SCA people? I dont know if we have any fortune teller types but we have a few interested in gypsie stuff. If anything my Jester persona could do it (Beign a Jester, I can do whatever I want!)

                      It also could be a good way to raise money for charity... kind of like that 'pay to have a cop sit in a cage in the parade thing' that they do.
                      Oh, if you're in the SCA you have not only "gypsies" but you have dukkerers (fortunetellers), too. In fact, I probably know some of them.

                      Pass on away, it's probably not new to them. And if they don't know the trick, they need to learn it. Shamefull when my brethren dont' know their shtick. Tsk, tsk.

                      Another nice bit of shtick is to round up a passel of urchins and then sic them on some unsuspecting man. Instruct them to grab his legs and cry "Father, father, please come home, we're starving!" He'll probably not only pay to get rid of them, but then pay again to sic them on one of his buddies.

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                      • #12
                        RK, that sound hilarious.

                        I wish I could be an urchin, so I could do that.

                        Or be in the SCA...
                        Unseen but seeing
                        oh dear, now they're masquerading as sane-KiaKat
                        There isn't enough interpretive dance in the workplace these days-Irv
                        3rd shift needs love, too
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                        • #13
                          Well, geeze, BeckySunshine! Why can't you? It's a heck of a lot of fun. I've been doing this for about 25 years now.

                          There is SCA in your area. (I dont' know where you are, but I know where we are. We are everywhere. )

                          PM me, if you want more info (that goes for anyone else, too.). I'll hook you up.

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                          • #14
                            I remember reading somewhere, that while running for office a judge had printed these "Get out of Jail for Free" cards as a kind of promo to get him voted. Of course they didn't mean anything, but the idea must have worked because he got elected.

                            Fast forward a year or two, he sentences this guy to 90 days for DUI. As he reads off the sentence, the man casually walks up to the bench, reaches into his wallet and pulls out a very dog eared card. It's one of the cards the guy had handed out during his bid for election.

                            The crook actually expected the card to WORK!
                            Learn wisdom by the follies of others.

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                            • #15
                              repsac: Whoa-oa that is a stupid thing for that judge to do. Just like the guy who ran against my mom during the last election who thought that if he pulled up all of her campaign signs then he would get elected. He actually went around town with a buddy driving, laying in the back of a pickup truck, yanking the signs up. We know, we saw him.

                              Yeah, he lost. Horribly.
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