Am I the only one who thinks this article is incredibly weird and that it’s not really, hmmm, how should I put it, “legit,” to state as fact in a news article that a man, “placed a curse on [Spokane].”

What?! Did he waive his hands and declare everyone in the city was going to get thinner?! Did he declare Spokane to exist always in a state of boredom? Did everyone I know from Spokane (and it seems like a lot) move here to escape the gypsies?!

Upon further Wikipedia inspection, I found no mention of this “curse.” After a Google attempt, I found several articles from The Spokesman Review that referenced this said curse, but they all came up as “nonexistent” when I clicked the link. Finally, I found an article in the Review that said this Jimmy Marks guys reversed the curse in a “double chicken ceremony - one extra crispy and one regular.”

OH! Ok. That makes total sense now…

Can you please tell me, former-Spokane Seattlelites, is this gypsy curse common knowledge in your hometown?!