A Romanian lawyer is suing his local Orthodox bishop and four priests claiming they failed to properly exorcise flatulent demons that were forcing him out of his home.
Madalin Ciculescu, 34, accused the five of fraud after they turned up several times to exercise the demons which were responsible for the bad smells that were ruining his business.
He claimed that after the failed exorcism the demons even started haunting him at his home at Pitesti in Arges County in central Romania.
The man produced his mother to back up his claim saying that even the hair-dryer was possessed and a black shadow came out of it when anyone tried to use it - and she also said the fridge was infested by the flatulent demons that she confirmed left foul smells about the property.
But the lawyer for the Archdiocese from Arges, Anton Alin, rejected the allegation of fraud saying that the exorcism had been properly carried out and they believed the allegations of further demons and more bad smells were simply a product of the man's imagination.
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"But the lawyer for the Archdiocese from Arges, Anton Alin, rejected the allegation of fraud saying that the exorcism had been properly carried out and they believed the allegations of further demons and more bad smells were simply a product of the man's imagination."
Funny how the possibility that it was a figment of this man's imagination only occurred to the priests after he'd paid them to get rid of it.
"Black shadow" coming out of the hair dryer - smoke, maybe?
All logical explanations aside - WTF? A flatulent demon?
"The man produced his mother to back up his claim saying that even the hair-dryer was possessed and a black shadow came out of it when anyone tried to use it - and she also said the fridge was infested by the flatulent demons that she confirmed left foul smells about the property."
You don't want your local priest. You want the Ghostbusters.
...more bad smells were simply a product of the man's imagination.
Uh, I think the bad smells were a product of the man's body a bit further south from his imagination.
Two sides arguing over boogeymen. I'd love to see this one go to court.
Those aren't demons, you just need to throw out that old leftover meatloaf that's been in the back of your fridge for a few weeks.
Either that, or your mother is just blaming the flatulence on imaginary demons. Even my 3-year-old knows better when I try to claim that it's thunder.
...and they believed the allegations of further demons and more bad smells were simply a product of the man's imagination.
....or Mr. Ciculescu's butt.
Mr. Ciculescu, just admit you have a flatulence problem, see a doctor, take some charcoal capsules or bean-o & leave the poor priests alone.
Ahh, rural Romania, a place of past times where exorcisms are believed to work, Satan is suspected behind everything and people are the weirdest mix of fundie and open minded.
The judge is gonna have a facepalm fest over this one.
I laugh at the term "flatulent demons."
The priests are indeed frauds, but so are you Madalin Ciculescu.
Stop eating so much garlic & broccoli & the farty demons will go away.
Reminds me of that scene in the movie Dogma where they fight the shit demon and Silent Bob uses an air freshener that "knocks out bad odors" on the thing. Maybe he just needs some Febreze? He can do that thing that kid does in "It", spray it into the air while screaming that its acid. He's got a big enough imagination to make it work.
Yes, people who do exorcisms are frauds, sure as anything. But all these people are tremendous idiots. Those who try to "drive out demons" should get what's coming to them, but whoever hires them also deserve what they get. Really, if your hair dryer spews out black shadow, shouldn't that be easy to demonstrate to others?
Mold and bacteria produce bad smells, but, nah... It must be farting demons. That or this guy and his mom need to lay off the dairy or something.
I think a less expensive thing to do, rather than an exorcism, is to repair the motor on the hair dryer, get some Arm and Hammer for the fridge, and possibly invest in some Febreeze for the rest of the property.
'There's a sucker born every minute'
-PT Barnum
...meanwhile on Planet Reality in the 21st Century, dieticians recommend an increase in intake of easily-assimilatable foods high in carbohydrates, such as potatoes, rice, lettuce, grapes, bananas & so on. Also charcoal tablets and/or pharmaceuticals such as that known as 'Beano' (no, not the comic !).
I guess that's why the rest of Europe is so secular , Mad-alin. Science - especially medical will do that to a landmass's population. Something todo with the filling of things called 'Gaps' in human knowledge.
You could always take Garlic to ward off the Vampire demons eh Gigglescu...?! It'd certainly keep away the Pointing & Laughing Demons! [/hyper-sarcasm]
A Romanian lawyer is suing his local Orthodox bishop and four priests claiming they failed to properly exorcise flatulent demons that were forcing him out of his home.
Did they use Beano for the exorcism? If not, that most likely was Mr. Ciculescu's problem right there.
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It actually works AND it's cheap.
As an old joke says, cleaning would be a good way to solve the problem, instead of blaming the priests, I think.
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