Rubbed the wrong way

I know that we're not supposed to judge other cultures and their peculiarities, but this is just stupid:

A family in Saudi Arabia has filed a lawsuit alleging theft and harassment on the part of a malevolent genie.

Officials with the Islamic Shariah court said the family alleges a genie has been leaving them threatening voice mail messages, stealing their cell phones and throwing rocks at them outside their home, CNN reported Monday.

"We have to verify the truthfulness of this case despite the difficulty of doing so," court head Sheik Amr al-Salmi, told the al-Watan newspaper. "What makes this case and complaint more interesting is that it wasn't filed by just one person. Every member of the family is part of this case."

Um, there's actually no difficulty here because genies (malevolent or not) don't exist. And every member of the family is either crazy or a liar.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to the woods to hunt for Bigfoot.