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Scope, on 2 Jan 2011, 12:30, said:

Because they're not right in the head. Maybe they should be told that instead of certain psychologists saying It's "normal" behavior.

Ion Cannon!, on 2 Jan 2011, 15:52, said:

Well, everyone's got a fetish, wether you're insane or not depends on how you act upon that fetish.

SquigPie, on 2 Jan 2011, 15:12, said:

You can say that about anything. For example you could have a fetish for eating people. Doesn't make it normal behavior.

PC is being repealed in some areas though, doctors in the UK are now told to tell people they're fat, not obese. So basically fat people can now rightly be called fat. Maybe there is hope afterall!

Ion Cannon!, on 2 Jan 2011, 18:38, said:

Everyone has darkness inside them, those small flashes, were you see yourself doing horrible things, what makes us sane is that we don't act out on them.

What does this have to do with PC anyhow?

SquigPie, on 2 Jan 2011, 19:48, said:

Yes things like - " I could push this person off a cliff and they would die " But thats not really a fetish, its just a possible action. Just because we think something, it doesn't mean its the dominant thought or that we will act upon it. These people MARRY inanimate objects, thats a pretty major action. Hence they are insane.

That was in response to Scope's comment, guess I forgot to quote it though.

Ok this has gone too far off topic, this isn't the place for philosophical discussion, it's a Weird news thread. Feel free to make a topic in the Right Forum. Thanks.

Romanian witches to cast anti-government spell

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Protests over plan to tax witches as part of drive to collect more revenue and crack down on tax evasion

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Romanian witches protest over tax Romanian Bratara Buzea, 63, was imprisoned for witchcraft under Nicolae Ceausescu's repressive regime. Photograph: Vadim Ghirda/AP

Double, double toil and trouble: witches in Romania are planning to cast a spell on the country's rulers because of laws that will force them to pay tax for the first time.

Cat excrement and dead dogs, rather than eye of newt and toe of frog, will go into their cauldron – but they are hoping to put a Macbeth-style hex on the country's president, Traian Basescu, and his government after the imposition of a tax regime aimed at tackling the recession.

Witches will gather on Romania's southern plains and the banks of the Danube to protest against the laws and cast spells on the politicians who implemented them.

A dozen witches will hurl the poisonous mandrake plant into the river "so evil will befall them", a witch named Alisia said.

The threatened curse is not being taken lightly in a country with a long tradition of superstition. Basescu and his aides have been known to wear purple on certain days in an attempt to ward off evil.

The new law is part of the government's drive to collect more revenue and crack down on tax evasion. It will force the likes of witches, astrologers and fortune tellers to register their professions and become liable for 16% tax in line with other self-employed Romanians.

The Queen witch Bratara Buzea said she would lead a chorus in casting a spell using a concoction of cat excrement and a dead dog. "They want to take the country out of this crisis using us? They should get us out of the crisis because they brought us into it," she said.

Sal the Cat summoned for jury service in the U.S. and court rules he 'must attend'

A pet cat has been summoned for jury duty in the U.S. - and has been told by courts he 'must attend'
Despite owner Anna Esposito's protestations that a mistake has been made, a jury commissioner has ruled that Sal must attend the court.
She wrote that Sal was 'unable to speak and understand English' - and included a letter from her vet saying that the animal was a 'domestic short-haired neutered feline'.

Bizarrely, the court ruled the animal must report to the courtroom. If the matter is not resolved he will have to report to Suffolk Superior Crown Court in Boston, U.S. on March 23.
Anna wrote her Sal's name under 'pets' on the last census - she crossed out 'dogs' and said he was a cat.
She said: 'When they ask him guilty or not guilty? What's he supposed to say - miaow?
'Sal is a member of the family so I listed him on the last Census form under pets but there has clearly been a mix-up.'

Husband Guy added: 'I said, Sal, what's this? I was shocked. He likes to sit on my knee and watch crime shows with me but even so he's still under qualified for jury duty if you ask me.'
There are ten statutory disqualifications preventing people from serving on a jury - and Mrs Esposito said Sal was not suitable because he could not understand the language.
However, jurors are 'not expected' to have a perfect command of the English language.
The other exemptions did not apply because Sal was not ill, too old or a convicted felon.
It is thought he accidentally ended up on the juror list when paperwork was misread at the last census.

This Man Somehow Sneezed Out the Bullet That Shot Him

I'm stunned. Doctors are flabbergasted. The world is square. What. The. Hell. An Italian man was hit by a stray bullet. In the head. But it didn't kill him! How? Well, he somehow sneezed out the very bullet that shot him.

Darco Sangermano, a 28-year-old Italian man, was partying and celebrating on New Years Eve. Just like you and me. But unlike us, he was partying in Naples where things can get a little wild—down in Naples, they fire guns with live ammunition to ring in the new year. Unfortunately for ol' Darco, he was shot in the face by a stray bullet during one of those celebrations.

Obviously worried for his life, Darco—bloody face and all—rushed to the hospital in hopes that doctors could save him. Turns out they didn't have to. When he got to the hospital, a big whooping sneeze overcame him and out came snot and that .22 caliber bullet he got shot with. From his nose. The doctors were absolutely stunned:

"He was a very lucky man, he could have been killed," Dr. Sid Berrone said. "The bullet went through his temple, behind his eye, entered the nasal cavity and then became lodged in his nostril before he sneezed it out. Amazing."

Doctors cleaned out his wound and removed bone fragments and he's expected to make a full recovery. Amazing indeed. Happy New Year Darco.

AH yeah, I read about that a few days ago. We were laughing hard at SOC at that one .

Each of William Shakespeare's 38 plays are to be performed in a different language to mark the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Shakespeare's Globe theatre in the British capital says it will host the special season over six weeks, beginning next year on April 23 - the playwright's birthday.

Shows will included The Taming Of The Shrew in Urdu and King Lear in Australian Aboriginal languages.

Other performances are Julius Caesar in Italian, Troilus And Cressida in Maori, The Tempest in Arabic and Love's Labour's Lost in British sign language.

"The Globe will create an international Shakespeare community in the heart of London as a prelude to the internationalism which will fill the capital later in the year with the Olympics," said the theatre's artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole.

The special season is part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, which was set up in 2008 in London to celebrate the Olympics.

The Globe is a reconstruction of a theatre where many of Shakespeare's plays were performed before it burnt down in 1613.

A woman in the US state of South Carolina has been charged with animal cruelty after confessing to hanging a dog for chewing on her Bible, claiming God told her to do it.

Spartanburg County animal control officers say Miriam Fowler Smith confessed to hanging the pit bull from a tree using an extension cord and then setting it on fire, describing it as a "devil dog", according to a report by 7 On Your Side News.

She told police officers she killed the dog after it chewed on her Bible and that she was afraid it would bite children in the neighbourhood.

The dog, named Diamond, belonged to Smith's nephew who noticed it was missing when he returned home.

He told police he thought the dog had run away, but when he questioned his aunt she admitted to killing it.

The 65-year-old is facing five years in jail if she is convicted.