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SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
Police in Pattaya, Thailand, recently arrested a 38-year-old fortune-teller after he stole a woman’s smartphone while she was praying at a temple, just so he could confirm his own prediction about her future.
The victim, a 19-year-old woman named Pim, took pity on a shabbily dressed fortune teller offering his services outside a temple, and she stopped to learn her future in the new year.
The fortune-teller, identified as Udomsap Mueangkaew, used a deck of cards to read the woman’s fortune and warned her that she faced bad luck and the loss of a valuable item in the near future.
He also offered to prevent these events from occurring, for a fee, but the young woman refused.
Ms Pim went about her business, going into the temple to pray, as she had planned, but she soon realized that the iPhone she had placed beside her at the fortune-teller’s table had disappeared.
Remembering the fortune-teller’s prediction, she immediately went back to confront him for stealing her phone. Udomsap denied any involvement and told her the theft was just a confirmation of his prediction. He even had the audacity to describe the appearance of the thief, whom he said he had seen.
The young woman did not let herself be swayed and instead made a scene that saw passers-by come to her aid. They started going through the fortune-teller’s things, and Ms Pim’s iPhone was found at the bottom of a face mask box.
Faced with irrefutable evidence that he had committed the theft, Udomsap Mueangkaew pleaded with his victim not to press charges, claiming that this was his first offense and that he had only committed the crime because he needed money.
However, the young woman decided to call the police and reveal his scam to prevent others from falling prey to his tactics.
In a related story, just a few weeks ago, we wrote about a family of scammers in Austria who convinced wealthy victims that their jewelry was cursed and required exorcising, only to steal it from them.
Out of curiosity, we would like to ask one simple question: if fortune tellers really can see the future, why don’t they just peek, for themselves, at tomorrow’s stock prices? That could be very profitable. Just asking.
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SOURCE: odditycentral.com
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