The assistant director [of the TSA] told [Carole Smith, a Wiccan] he was investigating a threat of workplace violence. He said that her former mentor in on-the-job training, officer Mary Bagnoli, reported that she was afraid of Smith because she was a witch who practiced witchcraft. She accused Smith of following her on the highway one snowy evening after work and casting a spell on the heater of her car, causing it not to work.
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I'm really starting to lose patience with people like this. They were the reason those witch trials happened, and provided a nice cover for greedy assbites who just wanted to get ahold of what the victims owned, their land in particular. Nowadays, they're a symptom of just how far the IQ of humanity has fallen.
Mary Bagnoli believes in spells?
If there is any danger of anyone being violent, then it is surely a matter for the police, and a warning that a job is on the line.
> She accused Smith of following her on the highway one snowy evening after work and casting a spell on the heater of her car, causing it not to work.
Heck no! If it's a good proper Christian car, then Wiccans can't do darn about it. You need to ask that demon exorcist guy to help to drive BOYCE and BOICE out of the heater.
Oh my god, I was tinkering around with some spare parts and must have accidentally created a time machine and sent myself back to 1711. Somehow my internet connection still works (my wifi is probably being transmitted through the rift in time) so if anyone in 2011 is reading this please help me find my way back.
First of all, Wiccans don't actually cast spells, despite what even Wiccans want to believe. Second of all, using magic to harm others is explicitly forbidden in Wiccan, mostly for reasons such as this.
Ms. Smith got fired?!! LAWSUIT TIME!!!!
Mary Holeycannoli is a nasty slimeball with a greed/hate-fueled resentment towards the nicer, nobler, much better woman, Caroline Smith...so she came up with a way to snooker her for no good reason. Moldy Ravioli & her boss Jim-Bob Stupid are gonna GET it!!!
Sounds like a movie: "MS. SMITH GOES TO COURT"!
It's Boyce's brother, the gremlin, Bubba Pepboyz.
Really! I'M WICCAN & WE ARE NOT GONNA SIC BUBBA ON YOU, Ms. MOLDY BAGUETTE, YOU SCUMMY MEATBALL-HEAD!!! *slaping Mary silly ensues* dummydummystupiddummydummydummydummystupidstupiddummyidiotloserdummydummystupidstupidSTOOOPID!
...what.
Smith lost her job over this? Okay, I just read the article, and it's not definite--this is about equal parts bullying and religious discrimination, it looks like--but damn it! This happened in my city!
UShe accused Smith of following her on the highway one snowy evening after work and casting a spell on the heater of her car, causing it not to work.
Umm..that was me, actually. But I swear I didn't do anything to your heater- I was fiddling with my rolls of duct tape and stun gun..
Fucking witch trials again. When will you fundies learn?
@HumMis1349:
Thankless little bitch, for tears I cried
Simply reply that you weren't trying to act as an agent of Satan, but to freeze out the Thetans that were tormenting Mary. Boom. Nobody wants to touch an interfaith made-up war, and especially not those sue-happy Scientologists.
Bagnoli thinks Smith used magic to make her car's heater not work?
What would be the level of the spell to make that happen? First? Second? Not much higher than that, I would think. And itt would definitely be from the Transmutation school of magic.
Violence? Sounds to me like religious discrimination here.
She accused Smith of following her on the highway one snowy evening after work and casting a spell on the heater of her car, causing it not to work.
"casting a spell on the heater of her car, causing it not to work."
@Kinderklein
"She have the power to mess with iron chariots?
In an episode of the anime series "Mahou Tsukai Tai", the apprentice witch Sae Sawanoguchi - to prevent hurting herself in the crash on her bicycle - used the spell 'Isaki Aham Mehinam. Etto Kaffe Nam!' to float down to the ground safely.
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Thus she, Nanaka Nakatomi and Akane Aikawa are superior to God eh, TSA & Mary Bagnoli? Gotcha.
I'd much rather have Carole Smith working at the TSA than Mary Bagnoli. I might find Christianity and Wicca to both be a bit weird, but as long as someone's beliefs don't get in the way of allowing someone to properly do there job, I really don't care what beliefs you hold.
Carole Smith didn't let her beliefs get in the way of her job. Mary Bagnoli, on the other hand, clearly let's her beliefs interfere with her job -- enough for her to get a colleague fired. Enough for her to be paranoid and completely detached from reality. This is not what we need in the TSA. You are supposed to be looking after our security. I don't feel safe. I can't feel safe knowing that the TSA got this report and made the decision to fire the person who was behaving rationally.
Hey, TSA, if you were going to fire someone here, you fired the wrong person.
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