Note to my fellow Pagans and Witches: threatening to hex the police officer won’t get you out of a ticket.

But, sometime the most memorable stories are just the reactions from drivers, such a witch stopped by California Highway Patrol Officer Tom Maguire . “I was hexed by a witch,” said Maguire, who works in the CHP’s Contra Costa office. “I stopped a lady for a speeding ticket, and she said, ‘I’m a Wiccan,’ and that I would have a lifetime of bad luck.”

You have to figure the CHP are used to pulling over people adept in the occult sciences by now, they’d know that a Wiccan isn’t supposed to bring down a lifetime of bad luck down on someone just because they got caught speeding. Looking at past occasions of Pagans having trouble with the law, I’d say that the gods/powers/universe have no problem seeing you get caught if you do something foolish.

Tags: California, law, Paganism, police, Wicca, Witch, Witchcraft