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JonLP24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 08:31 AM
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Family sues genie for creating havoc
CAIRO - A family in Saudi Arabia has filed suit in a religious court against an unnamed genie, or jinn, who sounds most unpleasant: It steals cell phones, whispers threats and occasionally flings stones.

"We began to hear strange sounds," a family member who requested anonymity told the Saudi daily Al Watan. "At first we did not take it seriously, but then stranger things started to happen, and the children got particularly scared when the genie started throwing stones."

The genie -- or genies -- had demands: "A woman spoke to me first, and then a man. They said we should get out of the house," said the family member, adding that his clan fled their home near the city of Medina.

Jinns and genies are spirits born out of fire that have supernatural powers. They appear in the Quran and Arab mythology, creatures living between humanity and the elements. One of their most famous incarnations lived in Aladdin's lamp.
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2009/07/13/20090713saudi-genie13-ON.html
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 08:39 AM
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1. I am puzzled
what do they hope to accomplish?
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 09:06 AM
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2. To be granted three wishes
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-14-09 10:40 AM
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3. aww...come on
She's so hot...how could anyone possibly sue her? :shrug:

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