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    Sex-change curse placed on flowerpot thief
    Malaysia Sun
    Thursday 3rd December, 2009  
    (IANS)


    A thief who stole a flowerpot containing the ashes of an African witch doctor grandmother is risking an involuntary sex change, her grandson warned in a letter published Thursday in a New Zealand newspaper.

    The pot was stolen from the home at Gulf Harbour, near Auckland, of At du Plooy, who wrote to the Rodney Times saying he was a medium and keeps in touch with spirit of his grandmother who died 16 years ago in Africa at age 93.

    She had put a curse on an area one kilometre around the pot with sex-change icons that can gradually change men into women and vice versa, unless the pot is returned, he wrote.

    Du Plooy said he thought he could trace the pot with her spiritual help, but his grandma was not familiar with the area where it had been taken.

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    By Anonymous, 12-03-09, 04:20 PM

    Sex-change curse placed on flowerpot thief

    There is absolutely no truth to this witch doctor nonsense and anyone who believes otherwise should be barred from reproducing. The world has enough stupid in it.
    By Anonymous, 12-03-09, 04:28 PM

    @1

    Excellent way to prove your own point.
    By Anonymous, 12-03-09, 04:30 PM

    Witch Doctor Nonsense

    It is just as nonsensical as thinking that you can change the Divine Plan of an omniscient God by ritual begging (i.e. prayer). This witch doctor’s curse isn’t any more stupid than any other religious superstition. They all give people the illusion of control in an inherently chaotic universe.
    By Anonymous, 12-03-09, 04:34 PM
    Or influencing beliefs through comment posts.
    By stick a pitch fork in it, 12-03-09, 04:41 PM

    Fark

    So they are going to be transported to San Francisco?
    By Anonymous, 12-03-09, 04:46 PM

    Maybe the person wants the sex change

    Maybe the person who stole it is one of those people who are trapped in the wrong sex and was looking for an inexpensive way to have the sex change. Maybe Michael Jackson stole it in the 80s and has been slowly changing since...
    By BAH, 12-03-09, 04:48 PM
    perhaps the flowerpot has tickets to Trinidad CO
    By Capt.Dangledoo, 12-03-09, 05:11 PM

    DUH DUH DUH

    I love my grandmother so I’ll show her respect by dumping her remains in a, friggin flower pot?
    By samsam, 12-03-09, 05:11 PM

    It was me

    I stole the pot, and started growing breasts! oh no Im guna be a girl!
    By Concerned Christian, 12-03-09, 05:24 PM

    Sex-change curse placed on flowerpot thief

    These curse thingys always seem to have a way of coming true. People will eventually see. We need to be more accepting of the power in nature.
    By oh my gawd, 12-03-09, 06:05 PM

    concerned christian...

    thanks for the biggest laugh I’ve had all year. seriously. that was HILARIOUS.
    By Mudkipz Acronym, 12-03-09, 06:18 PM

    Lulz

    No one remembers the curse of King Tut? Curses are real, though I’m not so sure about a sex change curse....
    By TS girly, 12-03-09, 07:52 PM

    Can I haz pot?

    Pleeeeaaaaaassseee this would be cheaper than surgery.
    By MikeyTX, 12-03-09, 08:12 PM

    @concerned christian...

    biggest laugh all year? you need to get out more, hon.
    By Rio, 12-03-09, 08:26 PM

    Pandora's Box

    Every drag queen in town will be after that pot now.
    By Anonymous, 12-03-09, 09:25 PM

    Me too?

    Well, if the pots important to him, I don’t want that. I would like the curse though; if 'twere real he could make a fortune 'cursing' people. Also, does it also reverse with water, and make hilarious martial-arts related hijinks happen?
    By old paint, 12-04-09, 07:47 AM

    rio

    may the best tran win
    By Bond, 12-04-09, 03:22 PM

    moscow nights

    It was stolen by the KGB for Vladimir Igorevitch Putin.
    By renetent@hotmail.co.uk, 12-05-09, 04:14 AM

    soon to be single

    My winky just fell off.
    By Anonymous, 12-05-09, 06:07 AM

    Return it theif!

    The theif should return the property of this person, as it obviously causes much greif to the victum.
    By Anonymous, 12-05-09, 06:07 AM

    Return it theif!

    The theif should return the property of this person, as it obviously causes much greif to the victum.
    By Pots Causes Hallucinations, 12-05-09, 10:02 AM

    Pot = Tits = ??? = Profit

    Nuff said.
    By Keyser Soze, 12-09-09, 08:08 AM

    It's a government plot!

    You all do realize that it’s the CIA that has this pot; this is the greatest boon to spying ever! No more disguises, ust a lot of female agents!
    By Shoobs, 12-10-09, 01:11 PM

    Inherently chaotic universe?

    No son, this is a inherently complex universe. Learn your science. If this was chaotic, we’d not exist. If this was orderly, we’d not exist.
    By Lucius, 12-18-09, 01:48 PM

    Plant pots, Putin, The universe.

    I tried and failed, to read this and not be amused, so I thought I’d add my interpretation. The universe is chaotic and orderly. chaos = beginnings/changes order = structure/stagnant Entropy is a lack of chaos and the path to order, so the most chaos in the universe was the big bang, and the most order is yet to come when all suns die and the universe becomes inert. So the universe is currently closer to chaos than order. I personally prefer the rule of five. It can be found in nearly every religion, in some form or other, twisted by the need to understand it and define it as a way of life. Here it is in a nutshell. For there to be something, there has to be nothing. so 1=2 because without the nothing the something cannot be defined. Now that there is something and nothing there must be a point in between them, a dividing line. So 1 = 2 = 3 The father the son and the holy spirit is one religious definition. The 3 hindu gods is another, the creator, the destroyer, the maintainer. If you wish to understand it more, tough, I’m bored now and moving on. And no, I doubt the pot thief will change sex because of someone elses belief unless he hears about the curse and has a weak mind. then his own lack of belief will be swayed subconsciously to take the curse as real and create enough doubt in themselves that it can only be understood as wishing to change sex.

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