The Malice Engine » genie http://www.mikeoliveri.com Diary of a Supervillain Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:07:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Crummy Sequel of Your Modern World http://www.mikeoliveri.com/2009/07/14/crummy-sequel-of-your-modern-world/ http://www.mikeoliveri.com/2009/07/14/crummy-sequel-of-your-modern-world/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:24:38 +0000 Mike http://www.mikeoliveri.com/?p=3772 In today’s entry, I learned that a Saudi family is suing a genie that has been harassing them.

I honestly don’t know where to begin. It’s in a Sharia court, so that tells us why the case even made it that far.

My next question is how do they prove the genie is there, much less get it to show up? Even better, how would you like to be the guy who gets to deliver the summons? Then, supposing the court even finds in the family’s favor, what are they supposed to do about it? Wave a restraining order at it? If it is an all-powerful entity straight out of the Quran, why would it care what a bunch of humans had to say?

Best case scenario.

Best case scenario.

Please, please, please follow up on this story, CNN, because I would love to see where it goes from here.

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