Brickbat: I Put a Spell on You

Eliana Bauta, a former employee of New York City's Human Resources Administration, has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the theft of more than $300,000 in emergency benefits money. Bauta used part of the money she stole to pay someone to put a voodoo spell on a former boyfriend.

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[Inigo Montoya]

She put on a spell on him because he’s hers?

[Inigo Montoya]

At least Bauta has good taste in music. Whether it’s Nina Simone, Creedance, or the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins original, it’s a great song to be inspired by.

[geo1113]

Screamin' Jay

[Á àß äẞç ãþÇđ âÞ¢Đæ ǎB€Ðëf ảhf]

It matched Stranger than Paradise so well I considered him to be one of the stars.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Voodoo Lady
Shakin' that stick and drivin' me crazy

[Fist of Etiquette]

I'm beginning to suspect governments aren't very responsible with tax dollars.

[Brandybuck]

Without government who would hire the voodoo ladies?

There's a game you can play where someone names a person's quirk, foible, or eccentricity, and the other has to guess whether where they work.

"Hired someone to put voodoo spell on ex-boyfriend" would lead me to guess either welfare recipient or works for welfare department. I would have been very very close in this case.

[Earth Skeptic]

What about DMV?

[Eddy]

I've managed to encounter mainly friendly ones so far, with some minor exceptions.

I said "so far."

[SQRLSY One]

She should have put in an application with the feds, for a scientific research grant, instead, to figure out exactly HOW voodoo works, and then she'd be OK! AND she'd STILL presumably have been able to curse her ex!

Or would they have forced her to start out with lab mice instead?

[Halykan]

Lab mice wouldn't be subjected to that kind of potential harm without more possible upside, not by any responsible IRB.

They'd use psychology undergrads instead.

[Eddy]

Using government funds for voodoo, or in other words...

...voodoo economics.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Sounds like a "religious freedom" case the clingers would embrace.

[Earth Skeptic]

So you also reject all the posturing by Native Americans and their fans about "sacred lands", right?

[NOYB2]

Yet, for some reason, Democrats want to bring more deeply religious people into the country. Misogynistic, homophobic, illiberal, deeply religious people. And, for some reason, you cheer them on in doing so.

[Frank Thorn]

Mugshot

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2019/07/18/woman-gets-2-years-spending-300000-city-money-hex-ex/

[Eddy]

A bureaucrat in a firmly-Democratic city steals money from the public and gets sent to prison - by an Obama judge, I'll give you that.

So this is a case of New York Democrats policing their own - now, where do the clingers come in?

[Eddy]

(The federal prosecutor, I presume, would answer to Trump and Barr)

[Johnimo]

Did the article say this person is a "democrat"? How could you possibly infer that from this story? LOL (hysterically)

[Eddy]

I said she was "A bureaucrat in a firmly-Democratic city."

[Eddy]

Techno-voodoo - making Screamin’ Jay Hawkins turn over in his grave - then rise from it and wreak revenge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uvCab2ncLA

[Chipper Jones]

Did the hex work?

[Eddy]

It turned him into a newt, but he got better.