Witches Could Be Jailed If Predictions Don't Come True! (Romania)

[Diggindeeper]

They should tax the 'False Prophets' in the USA, like this!


By ALISON MUTLER, AP
3 hours ago

BUCHAREST, Romania — There's more bad news in the cards for Romania's beleaguered witches.
A month after Romanian authorities began taxing them for their trade, the country's soothsayers and fortune tellers are cursing a new bill that threatens fines or even prison if their predictions don't come true.

Superstition is a serious matter in the land of Dracula, and officials have turned to witches to help the recession-hit country collect more money and crack down on tax evasion. Witches argue they shouldn't be blamed for the failure of their tools.

"They can't condemn witches, they should condemn the cards," Queen Witch Bratara Buzea told The Associated Press by telephone.

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[RabbiKnife]

Hey, if we did the same thing with false prophets here in the good ol' US of A, we could balance the budget, eliminate the deficits, and put a chicken in every pot.

[teddyv]

Condemn them if they weigh the same as a duck.

[Fenris]

Condemn them if they weigh the same as a duck.

Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

[tango]

Hey, if we did the same thing with false prophets here in the good ol' US of A, we could balance the budget, eliminate the deficits, and put a chicken in every pot.

All it would do is encourage them to be even more vague and omit useful things like timeframes.

[Fenris]

All it would do is encourage them to be even more vague and omit useful things like timeframes.

The really good ones do that anyway. I mean, hello, Nostradamus? Could you be any more vague? I wanna just smack that guy upside the head...

[Diggindeeper]

Hey, if we did the same thing with false prophets here in the good ol' US of A, we could balance the budget, eliminate the deficits, and put a chicken in every pot.

That's my thinking too! Too many self-proclaimed prophets here, and I just bet many of them would come to a screeching halt! The U.S. would have lots more tax money! And people would slow way down on sending them money and would really QUESTION whether or not to send it at all if they have to send it to a jail cell!

[tango]

The really good ones do that anyway. I mean, hello, Nostradamus? Could you be any more vague? I wanna just smack that guy upside the head...

I know what you mean... a lot of them are so vague they could mean anything. It always amazes me how people read their weekly horoscopes, and seem to believe that the week ahead for 5 million people (60m in the UK, and assuming an equal distribution across the 12 zodiac signs) could be summarised in a box 2 inches by 3 inches or less.

[teddyv]

The really good ones do that anyway. I mean, hello, Nostradamus? Could you be any more vague? I wanna just smack that guy upside the head...

I see grave-robbing in your future.

[Fenris]

I see grave-robbing in your future.

Can we have a timeframe please? I mean, could you be any more.....




Uhh I mean....All hail the hypnotoad......

[Fenris]

I know what you mean... a lot of them are so vague they could mean anything. It always amazes me how people read their weekly horoscopes, and seem to believe that the week ahead for 5 million people (60m in the UK, and assuming an equal distribution across the 12 zodiac signs) could be summarised in a box 2 inches by 3 inches or less.

Plus the general wackiness that there are actually 13 signs, not 12, and they vary in length from 18 days to 44 days.

[Diggindeeper]

Tax the Zodiacers too!

[tango]

Can we have a timeframe please? I mean, could you be any more.....

Pick pick pick... he did say "in your future" which rules out the untold years since the dawn of time until your present.