"I learned a lot," said Mahalanobis, who is working part-time in a school cafeteria and slowly paying off her debt. "Not to let fear or guilt control you or your actions. Also, listen to your gut, your instinct, that little voice in the back of your head. Because your mind can fool you."

No, trusting your gut instinct that your family was 'cursed' and that you needed a psychic to fix things is what got you in trouble in the first place. Critical thinking and actually questioning people and their motives with your mind should allow you to avoid such obvious scams from a mile away.

A Quiznos manager has $135K of disposable savings?

I wish I was unscrupulous, because

mamoru: - a few posts from people wishing they lacked the morals and ethics which are currently preventing them from fleecing people in this manner.

DAMN IT

Yep, psychics are bad.

Right up there with chiropractics, 12 step programs, and professional religion.

I need a psychic to tell me the purpose of the first comma in the headline.

Benevolent Misanthrope: So, how is this different from giving one's money to churches? Tithing (10% of your lifetime earnings) > $135,899.00 - and churches don't even claim to directly provide a service for their members!

They provide the service of eternal salvation. I say 10% is a pretty small amount in exchange for eternal happiness. Heck, they should increase that to about 80%, and eliminate secular government and let us have Christian law instead, that way we don't have to have horrible secularism foisted upon us good Christian folk.

Why, last week I learned that there's a man in my town not praying to God every day. I was horribly offended at his brash secular ways, and I asked him to leave. He refused! The nerve of his anti-Christian ways.

College education, taught many students that they should learn how to use commas.

/Yeah, I know it's a headline, but it''s pretty clumsy.

•Keeping her efforts to purge the spirits secret or the evil would take over permanently and nothing could then stop it.

Oh, well that's it then. Since she did not keep the psychic protection secret, evil has taken over. Nothing can now stop it.

Poor Peaches Stevens - the Lady no longer has a Fan in Windermere.

I think the Quiznos owner might have put her trust in the wrong manager.

Sandwich Toasting departments just aren't what they used to be

I went to the Haunted Mansion and Madame Leota made me buy souvenirs!

_{Disney, Fark Yeah!}

mamoru: - numerous posts berating this woman as an idiot because there is a complete lack of data supporting any kind of psychic phenomenon.

To be fair, she IS an idiot. An idiot of epic proportions.

theflatline: Priti Mahalanobis is her name.

Priti Gullible is more like it.

\Get it?

Those are vauge perdictions for this thread, almost vauge enough to be useful in almost any fark thread.

Crudbucket: [blog.timesunion.com image 345x355]

I'll see your unibrow and raise you...



... a full beard!

Bet she didn't see that coming.

She should have tried Momocin first.

I'm failing to see where Peaches committed any fraud.

Benevolent Misanthrope: So, how is this different from giving one's money to churches? Tithing (10% of your lifetime earnings) > $135,899.00 - and churches don't even claim to directly provide a service for their members!

No fan of churches, but they do provide regular social gatherings, mental health counseling (some more misguided than others), singles mixers, and often provides charity for the poor. The Mormon church, for all I can't stand its upper leadership, basically fed my family through stretches of un- and underemployment in the late 80's and early 90's housing crashes and base closures in CA, and they never even demanded.

/Still rather donate to a local food bank that send 90% of its income to help than 30%.

When I was running my occult bookstore, I used to meet these rich morons who had been living in their own little bubbles for so long, that you could've stuck Casper the Friendly Ghost stickers on an out-of-date thesaurus and convince them that it was a copy of the Necronomicon.

I have no problem with this. Being stupid comes with consequences. If you don't like the consequences, don't be so farking stupid. The "psychic" should be given a medal for teaching this woman valuable lessons, at the bargain price of $135k.

Bazinga In My Pants: I'm failing to see where Peaches committed any fraud.



Look in the Teaches of Peaches

_{Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me}

A quiznos manager makes enough to blow that kind of money on a psychic?

Was it monopoly money?

Benevolent Misanthrope: So, how is this different from giving one's money to churches? Tithing (10% of your lifetime earnings) > $135,899.00 - and churches don't even claim to directly provide a service for their members!

Well even if you want to ignore the religious side, a church does provide you with a place to meditate and think, a social network and frequently, daycare for a few hours.

Expanding on the social network side, you have people with whom you can purely socialize, job resources for yourself and your children if you have them. Matchmaking is not uncommon at many churches, and frequently provides some background on what kind of loser you are in for that round. Potlucks give you a monthly break from food drudgery (interestingly, the more conservative the church, the better the food). Some churches even have coffee, tea, and homemade baked goods every morning. Most medium size and larger churches have a benevolence fund should you hit dire financial times.

It may not be for you, but I have met plenty of people who were there less for the religion and more for the socialization. There are lots of crazy cat ladies out there who would have been better off over involved in church or in a convent.

Getting back to the article, judges should have a free hand in cases like this to put restrictions / punitive measures on the harmed party. She shouldn't be allowed to sign for financial transactions larger than a utility bill or grocery shopping on her own ever again. There is a reason why teenagers can have a job, but need parents to cosign a car loan, and it has a lot less to do with credit worthiness of their person.

There are several cheaper ways that she could have gone about it:

Is she single? I am a super nice guy, and hope to convince her of that.

Go ahead and laugh non-believers! You also didn't believe that one day I'd be married to the 2012 GOP presidential candidacy front runner, either did you?

Yoyo: I think the Quiznos owner might have put her trust in the wrong manager.

Pretty much anyone can buy into a Quiznos franchise, and you get to pay all startup costs and 50% of your profits in exchange for getting screwed by corporate at every turn and taking on all of the risk if the location fails or you can't manage worth a damn. That's why quality is so variable in franchise companies, some make up the difference by skimping on everything.

They must have done pretty well for themselves to have that much jewelry around, though. (The buying of tabernacles doesn't count since banks will extend hilariously long lines of credit to small business owners.)

"Nobody goes to someone to be conned, to be victimized," except people who go to psychics.

Benevolent Misanthrope: So, how is this different from giving one's money to churches? Tithing (10% of your lifetime earnings) > $135,899.00 - and churches don't even claim to directly provide a service for their members!

Eternal salvation, duh. Not to mention the nice stained glass windows!

Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm, dumbass

SubbyCollege-educated, Quizno's manager spends $135,899 on a psychic before figuring out she might have been duped. "Unfortunately, I put my trust in the wrong person"

AntiNerd: A Quiznos manager has $135K of disposable savings?

SquiggelyGrounders: A quiznos manager makes enough to blow that kind of money on a psychic?

Was it monopoly money?

ITC: People who don't understand the difference between a manager and a franchise owner.

/Mostly subby's fault, since I normally wouldn't have read TFA either.

buckler: MaudlinMutantMollusk: Know what you get when you send an idiot to college?

/An idiot with a college education
//education =/= intelligence

What I came here for. Unfortunately, education is sometimes no bulwark against gullibility. Even worse, native intelligence sometimes doesn't help either. Detecting and avoiding bullshiat is very much a learned skill, and even if you have a PhD in nuclear physics, you can still fall for a psychic scam or a three-card-monty dealer if you haven't learned how to detect a scam.

It ain't that hard - does it match up with what I have thusfar observed in the universe?

base935: Is she single? I am a super nice guy, and hope to convince her of that.

I would guess that she's single at this point.

A lot of Quiznos shops have been closing up in the San Francisco Bay Area recently,a lot.

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Know what you get when you send an idiot to college?

/An idiot with a college education
//education =/= intelligence

This

Wisdom without intelligence = Edith Bunker
Intelligence without wisdom = Richard Nixon