Norway MP called fortune-tellers

[muriel_volestrangler]

A Norwegian politician has said she will not seek re-election after running up a large phone bill ringing fortune-tellers at parliament's expense.

Saera Khan, an MP for the ruling Labour Party, admits calling pay-per-minute fortune-tellers 793 times in one nine-month period, for a total of 133 hours.

In one three-month period, she spent 48,000 kroner (£4,590; $7,750), the daily Verdens Gang newspaper reported.

Ms Khan, 29, who is on sick leave, has said she has paid the money back.
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Her calls became so frequent that many fortune-tellers told her to stop ringing, Verdens Gang reported.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7662908.stm

When the woo-woos are saying you're calling too much, you know it must be true ...

[mr blur]

1. They didn't see that one coming, etc. etc.

[moggie]

2. You'd think "the gift" would be better than caller ID

[onager]

3. Pfft! Small-timer!

Dec. 1994--Orange County, CA is riding high on the can't-miss investments of county Treasurer Robert Citron. About $90 million is siphoned out of public funds and sunk--an apt word, as it turned out--into Citron's amazing investment pools.

Citron bets interest rates will continue to fall, and he has a secret weapon--he asks a small army of astrologers and psychics for their predictions.

Result: interest rates rose, Wall Street panicked, and virtually overnight, Citron's Psychic-Powered Investment Strategy lost over $1.5 billion.

Orange County declared itself Officially Broke. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.