Sometimes it's hard to not think that some people deserve it....

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

Bangladesh crackdown on 'kings of genies'

Mon Jul 13, 2:12 am ET

DHAKA (AFP) – Police in northern Bangladesh say they have arrested dozens of swindlers who conned people out of money by calling them on mobile phones and pretending to be genies with supernatural powers.

"It has become an epidemic here," said Farhad bin Imrul Kayes, police chief of Gobindaganj district.

"In the last three months alone we have arrested 24 of these so-called 'kings of genies', some of whom have even become rich in just a year," he told AFP.

The scammers would gather personal information about their victims beforehand, call them and speak "in a tone similar to Arabic," Kayes said...

More at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090713/od_afp/bangladeshreligioncrimeoffbeat_20090713061333

[imdjh]

1. rofl

[Orrex]

2. This explains why I have to rub my Tracfone three times before texting

[emilyg]

3. I rub my tummy first - then my phone. It works.

[Orrex]

4. Your tummy is too far away for me to rub it, but thanks for the suggestion!

[emilyg]

6. Have tummy. Have phone. Will travel.

;)

[juno jones]

5. There are people who supposedly are selling 'genies' on the internet.

Google it up sometime.

I can't remember how I found the sites in the first place, I think I was doing some research on Djinn, when I stumbled across them.

For a few hundred bucks for an incantation and a funky bottle, you can have your own djinn. Sounds like fun, heh, heh....

[csziggy]

7. They probably got that idea from "Ghost in a Bottle"

http://www.aghostinabottle.com/