chi.mer.i.cal | 1. created by or as if by a wildly fanciful imagination; highly improbable
2. given to unrealistic fantasies; fanciful
cog.i.ta.tions |
1. thoughtful considerations; meditations
2. serious thoughts, carefully considered reflections
another, brief, news update.
the bcc reports that in zimbabwe, a distraught businesswoman found a friend in the person of a (fake) traditional zimbabwe healer.
this fake healer offered, very kindly, to help her retrieve her stolen car. this recovery, could, however, only be undertaken with the help of mermaids. naturally, as mermaids are not indigenous to zimbabwe, money was required to import these mermaids. from the uk, no less. more money was required to put these mermaids up in a hotel. fair enough, one should play the good host. yet more money was required to buy a bull. for his testicles. one would have to presume that this was necessary because mermaids have none of their own. all in all, the search for her stolen car cost this businesswoman $30,000.
dissatisfied with her failure to find the car, the fake healer demanded yet more cash. this money was required to buy mobile phones. these phones were necessary in order to keep in contact with the mermaids (who had since moved out of the hotel??). which would then solve another personal problem that was afflicting this businesswoman. my best guess is that the problem was one of depression - a result of losing a car and $30,000.
the true puzzle is how acriminally stupid guileness individual like this "businesswoman" could possibly have earned the amount involved. not exactly overflowing with business acumen, i would argue. i mean, c'mon. plane tickets? we all know that mermaids swim.
in court, the nouveau riche fake healer denied that she was guilty of theft by false pretences. but magistrate sandra nhau was not so easily taken in, proving that lawyers are smarter than business people. in a demonstration of stunning percipience, she also made the observation that this fake healer was not a credible witness.
while on the topic - bet you didn't know that the starbucks logo portrays a mermaid. it's clearer in earlier versions of the logo. the bull testicles seem to be missing from the depiction though.
full article in comments.
the bcc reports that in zimbabwe, a distraught businesswoman found a friend in the person of a (fake) traditional zimbabwe healer.
this fake healer offered, very kindly, to help her retrieve her stolen car. this recovery, could, however, only be undertaken with the help of mermaids. naturally, as mermaids are not indigenous to zimbabwe, money was required to import these mermaids. from the uk, no less. more money was required to put these mermaids up in a hotel. fair enough, one should play the good host. yet more money was required to buy a bull. for his testicles. one would have to presume that this was necessary because mermaids have none of their own. all in all, the search for her stolen car cost this businesswoman $30,000.
dissatisfied with her failure to find the car, the fake healer demanded yet more cash. this money was required to buy mobile phones. these phones were necessary in order to keep in contact with the mermaids (who had since moved out of the hotel??). which would then solve another personal problem that was afflicting this businesswoman. my best guess is that the problem was one of depression - a result of losing a car and $30,000.
the true puzzle is how a
in court, the nouveau riche fake healer denied that she was guilty of theft by false pretences. but magistrate sandra nhau was not so easily taken in, proving that lawyers are smarter than business people. in a demonstration of stunning percipience, she also made the observation that this fake healer was not a credible witness.
while on the topic - bet you didn't know that the starbucks logo portrays a mermaid. it's clearer in earlier versions of the logo. the bull testicles seem to be missing from the depiction though.
full article in comments.
A fake Zimbabwean traditional healer has been found guilty of conning a businesswoman out of $30,000 to pay for "mermaids" to recover her stolen car.
The money was to have been used to import them from the UK, she claimed, and accommodate them in a local hotel.
Some of the money was to have been used to pay for a bull, whose genitals would supposedly help find the thief of her luxury vehicle.
Belief in animism is widespread in Zimbabwe, and across Africa.
There is a national association of traditional healers but the court found that Edina Chizema was not registered.
She had denied the charges of theft by false pretences but magistrate Sandra Nhau said she was not a credible witness.
Chizema had also asked for money to buy mobile phones to contact the mermaids and said she could solve the businesswoman's undisclosed "personal problems".
She is to be sentenced at a later date.