Tarot card readers charged with bilking "cursed" clients

They would convince the customers that they had a curse on them, and that to get rid of it they'd have to buy several products and services, which happened to cost a few thousand bucks. (Naperville Sun)

Comments

[Cherie]

I can see them thumping the person on the forehead I CAST YE OUT DEMON!!! Some people will believe ANYTHING.

[G-Man]

Anybody who goes to get their tarot cards read should probably be committed to an institution and have their checkbook taken away.

[Naga Please!]

Cherie,

That's Benny Hinn. Tarot card readers might do that too, but you need to throw in a fake Jamaican accent.

[Lois Lane]

I am of the opinion that psychics are a bunch of nut jobs out to steal your money.

[twerp]

Psychics aren't nut jobs, they're pretty smart. They take advantage of nut jobs and get lots of money in the process.....methinks a change in career might not be a bad thing...either a psychic or a home-based business racket.....

[Rock Marine]

Lois

The nut jobs are the people that go to the psychics. And, as P.T. Barnum was so famously quoted "a fool and his money are soon parted". The psychics are just helping the nut jobs part with thier money.

[Lois Lane]

Good point, twerp. But I would never be stupid enough to believe that they can see my future.

[Lois Lane]

And Rock Marine. Maybe I can get some of the psychics to share their money with me?

[alberti]

Rock Marine:
Thomas Tusser wrote: "A fool and his money are soon parted".
The P.T.Barnum quote you are thinking of is:
"There is a sucker born every minute".

psychics are fun to play with, and taste good too!

[sometimesilie]

LMAO, suckers!

My 8th Grade History teacher traveled every summer to places like Bumfuk China and IntheSticks Africa. It was in Africa where a Witch Doctor warned him of a dire curse upon leaving the village should he not pay for a "cure". My man, having demurred, had a knife stuck in his gut on the way out of the village. Moral of the story is obvious: if you are in a rural part of a foreign country and some witch Dr. starts talking about curses, give him what he wants. The people in this story are just suckers and fools however, and deserve parted from their money.

[nellagain]

I always wonder about the people who fall for this stuff, much like I wonder about people aho call in to "Dr". Laura --They *know* she's just going to yell at them and they call anyway.

Is it some pathological need for abuse?

And as long as we are quoting, let's bring in Mr. Fields

"You can't cheat an honest man"

and Samuel Johnson
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

[sometimesilie]

and btw, why is it illegal to threaten someone with a "curse" unless they pay up? I mean, really? It's all make believe. It's almost a duty for any red blooded American to bilk idiots so large that they would pay out thousands of dollars to a "psychic" to avoid being "cursed." Not a crime in my mind.

[Cherie]

NP...funny...now I have this vision of some dark room, candles lit all around, cloth covered table...lots of gold and burgandy colored stuff...smokey with incense and all...some creepy lookin Jamaican dude with dreds and long fingernails screamin I CAST YE OUT DEMON! LOL...

[Naga Please!]

Cherie,

and the song "Hungry Eyes" playing in the background. LOL
Oh wait...what am I thinking! Damn you David!!!!!

You reminded me of that movie Marked For Death with Steven Segal. In there that Jamaican guy busts out his famous line "everyone must dead!"

[The Asshole Guy]

Flash back to Dateline in the 1980's...

People are still falling for this type of BS?

[Phranqlin]

Going to the tarot card reader in the first place shows you're an easy mark for this kind of scam.

[Jack]

Reminds me of the midget con-artist who bilked widows out of their savings by conducting seances in which he pretended to contact their departed husbands. The law finally caught up with him and put him in jail, but he was so small that he slipped between the bars and escaped.

Headline in the next morning's newspaper: SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE.

[Rock Marine]

Alberti...thanks for un-confusing me. Now that you remind me, I believe I knew that, but confusion is now my constant companion, after my 60th birthday.

[Rock Marine]

I need to use extreme caution in my state of confusion....I could become the victim of a psychic.

[Sheila]

Jack, that guy was from a former Iron Curtain country and someone who helped him hide was arrested because he tried to cache a small Czech.

[AngrySockMonkey]

I bet they couldnt predict they were going to be arrested LOL

[Pug Mahone]

Jack:

That reminds me of the guy who escaped from a mental institution, raped a woman and then ran off. The headlines read "Nut Screws and Bolts".

[JB]

I,...seee, red and blue lights. Lots of them, no wait, there is a man, he is wearing black and has a gun,... he has something on his shirt, its shiny,... he is approaching a door,...

Knock knock.

Uh, honey, would you get that? I'm busy peering into my crystal ball.

[Jack]

Sheila & Pug M --

Good lines! Thanks for your continued support!

[Cherie]

This is by far the funniest thread lately. Sadly, I'm all out of witty puns. My mind is still wandering that circular, smokey hut with the nutty Jamaican..at least Steven Segal is here to protect me, thanks to NP.

[Icecycle]

Well gee; have you no feeling for the fruit-loops out there?

For every person who thinks he or she is a scientist and that no scientific research exists to support the paranormal there are ten or twenty people who say; what?

It is somewhat politics.

It is politically correct to say that 'time travel may be possible', even though this is a fact not in evidence.

(no, you can not travel in time; just stop now.)

It is not politically correct to say that psychic things happen.

I actually am okay with this.

Better to be thought of as a fruit-loop than to be even glanced at by today's government.

(I foresee a trip to Cuba in your future.)

[nellagain]

(no, you can not travel in time; just stop now.)

You can so.

Except its a one way trip and the speed is strictly regulated. 2 Billion heartbeats per 70 years.

[mctruck]

I was wondering why I couldn't see any thing in my scring bowl. I must be cursed with OTD

[A.V.]

Several years ago, I did a repair on a dryer for one of these fortune teller scammers.
When I got done, the idiot asked me if I'd trade a told fortune for the repair.

I looked her in the eyes and said, "How about I tell YOUR fortune? Get your money out."
She laughed and paid.

[David]

I had my palm read at a fair once. The lady told me that I was cursed and needed to buy $15 white candles for her to burn to counteract the black candles people were burning to curse me. I told her not to worry about it cause anyone I knew wouldn't be able to afford $15 candles for long so the curse would be gone soon.