OT: Tossed toilet bowl kills Brazilian soccer fan
The guilty Brazilian toilet tosser must have gotten the idea when vacationing in Columbus, OH.
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/25430548/tossed-toilet-bowl-kills-brazilia…
AND GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE
Geeeeez... I hate it when people reference EL or Columbus in rather tragic instances... It's not funny at all.
My first thought as well
Dude its Brazil, if the flying toilet bowls don't get you the jungle creatures, gang wars, soccer fans or Shakira will.
for Shakira.
...from Brazil???
...but I believe she went to Fordham.
Not Columbia?
Nope. Not Columbia, either. She's from Colombia.
Tom Brady went with Giselle.
So much potential...flushed away
Meh I'm not sure he would've made that big of a splash in life.
Man, that's a shitty way to go.
Yeah, it really stinks.
I saw the title and immediately thought, "Of course it did. That was the next logical step."
I don't want to think about how it escalates from here.
Don't let Istanbul soccer fans hear about this. They don't need any new ideas
This all started in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, in chariot race days!
In fact, the Nika Riots in 531 arose out of murders of one faction's members by another faction following a race, and resulted in the deaths of thousands of people. This became a political matter, so Justinian, then Emperor, came up with a plan that resulted of the execution of about 30,000 rioters in the Hippodrome, the stadium where the chariot races took place and the whole thing started.
Their descendants are still doing their sports riots thing.
So I blame Istanbul.
Do the police have anything to go on?
OLYMPICS 2016!!!!!
The shit literally hit the fan.
Ehh, close enough.
That's pretty tragic. Condolences to that person's family and friends.
That being said, you sort of have to wonder about people who are so immersed in the outcome of a match that they would rip toilets from the bathrooms and toss them from the stands, perhaps knowing they would harm or kill someone below. According to the Bloomberg article on this inicdent, there were clashes a few days beforehand where fans were actually asked to leave early, but they also managed to make it rain American Standard-style even then, injuring three people in the process.
Do clubs exist on the same ethnic/religious fault lines as some European clubs do?
Some context for the non-soccer-fans here:
- The match was at Santa Cruz, in Recife. The visitors were Parana, from Curitiba, 2000 miles away at the other end of the country. The two clubs aren't even rivals (and there's nothing in any of the reportage to suggest there was any unusual violence between the two sets of fans, just home supporters frustrated by the result).
- Brazil's national leagues play in their winter, our summer. This was only the third game of the season; it's not like they were going to be relegated or miss out on promotion because they didn't win this one match.
- This was Serie B. High level minor-league soccer, essentially.
I guess the equivalent would be furious fans ripping toilets out of the stadium bathrooms after an early-season game between CMU and Fresno.
who had the toilet bowls dropped on them had done the same to another group of rival fans earlier this year.
Key lesson: Don't throw toilet bowls on fans if you don't want toilet bowl thrown on you
Talk about taking a flying shit.
What's worse: this guy or the moron in Poland who got set on fire by security?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/29/man-on-fire-soccer-match-polan…
that picture is pure gold...
the best part is the amount of people ignoring the dude on fire to watch the game...
jdon
The soccer is just a venue. These are cultural/religiuos/political/tribal 1000-year old fights. There is no real connection to the actual soccer games. If their national sport was tennis, they'd have tennis hooligans.
That planned trip to Brazil.
Anything that can go wrong seems to down there.
Think about how this reads in the obituary.
What a terrible sport.