Family Sues Genie in Shariah Court

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/July/middleeast_July217.xml§ion=middleeast

Habib Shaikh

11 July 2009 Jeddah — A family in Mahd Al Dahab, near the holy city of Madinah, has filed a suit in the Shariah court there alleging that an unnamed genie has been stealing things from the house and harassing family members by pelting them with stones when they go out
at night.

According to a report in the Arabic daily Al Watan on Wednesday, the family has been living in the same house for 15 years, but claims that only recently it began to feel the presence of genie.

The lawsuit accuses the genie of stealing mobile phones, and sending threatening voice messages through cell-phones to vacate the house.

“We began to hear strange sounds. 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 head of the family, who requested anonymity, told the
Saudi daily.

[Bicoastal]

1. What an asshole.

[mitchum]

2. I bet the family also got in trouble with Dr Bellows

damn genies

[kestrel91316]

3. I read about some poor PIG being criminally prosecuted back in

the old days, either in the American colonies or England?

This is what happens when religions rule.

[imdjh]

4. Who is the bigger idiot?

The one who comes up with this kind of stuff, or the one who doesn't say, "You're an idiot, shut up and go away or I'm calling the mental hospital."?

[imdjh]

5. Florida mayor bans Satan by proclamation

Date: Friday, March 1 2002
Though the mayor of Inglis, Fla., raised some eyebrows by officially banishing Satan from her community, it appears a lawsuit will not be forthcoming.

Inglis Mayor Carolyn Risher wrote a proclamation Halloween night, reading in part, "Be it known from this day forward that Satan, ruler
of darkness, giver of evil, destroyer of what is good and just, is not now, nor ever again will be, a part of this town of Inglis."
The proclamation, which drew media attention and subsequent ridicule from across the country, also drew protest from the ACLU, which said the official religious proclamation violated the separation of church and state.

The town's commission, hoping to avoid a lawsuit, voted on Jan. 28 to declare that the proclamation was a personal act of the mayor alone, and that Inglis officials never authorized Risher's anti-Satan document.

That announcement satisfied local critics. After the vote, Gary Edinger, an attorney with the Florida ACLU, told reporters, "This takes care of it nicely."

[shireen]

6. i wish i had a genie to clean up my apartment

x(

[Historic NY]

7. idiots.....

[ColbertWatcher]

8. ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUNZUvjZX8

[DeSwiss]

9. Meanwhile, the Genie announced today that he was resigning.....

...saying he was tired of the old "Sharia-politics-as-usual" and he blamed the media for "filtering" him thus bringing his ethics into question. Also.

[Tabasco_Dave]

10. Must be Genie's evil sister

I always thought Barbara Eden was hotter as a brunette.:loveya:

[Q3JR4]

11. Um.... okay....

bet they'll win.

My guess is that the genie never shows up and the family wins by default. Good luck collecting on your payment though....

Q3JR4.

[Vidar]

12. There's a programming idea. The new SyFy channel can take ghosts to court..