“Los Angeles — A man who put a curse on Livermore’s sewer system says he’ll remove it if the city apologizes,” L.A.’s NBC News 4 reports.

“Adam Fortunate Eagle Nordwall claims to have placed a curse on the city in the early 1970s because officials allegedly mistreated a totem pole he gave Livermore as a gift.”

When crews installed the 20-foot totem pole, they cut several feet off the bottom and set it in concrete.

Nordwall says that desecrated his work of art, and demanded it be restored. City officials refused, so Nordwall says he put a curse on the sewer system.

A week later, sewers backed up.

Workers have since restored the pole. But Nordwall says he’ll only lift the curse if the city apologizes.

Mayor Marshall Kamena supports the idea. He says: ‘I’d rather not mess with something I don’t understand.’

Okay.

Two things here: 1) ‘t must be a really slow news day in L.A. And 2) I think that both Mr. Fortunate Eagle Nordwall and Mayor Kamena are full of shit.

The same goes for Livermore’s sewer system.

Besides — everybody knows that any curse put on a sewer system in the 1970s expired when that notorious disco-dancing warlock Andy Gibb met his maker.

Christ, is there anything worse than amateur holy men…?