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Brazil bridegroom bleeds to death at his wedding
Grand Junction Sentinel ^ | 7/21/12 | AP

Posted on 11/21/2012 12:37:50 PM PST by GSWarrior

Edited on 11/21/2012 4:35:09 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

RIO DE JANEIRO

(Excerpt) Read more at gjsentinel.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: alcohol; brazil; glass; shards
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1 posted on 11/21/2012 12:37:55 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior
shattering the glass he was carrying in his left pants pocket.

Unexpected.

2 posted on 11/21/2012 12:46:51 PM PST by Tax-chick (Are you getting ready for the Advent Kitteh?)
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To: Tax-chick

Yes, that is not a “freak accident”, that is just another case of people doing dumb things and encountering predictable results.


3 posted on 11/21/2012 12:48:02 PM PST by Boogieman
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Well, a glass in your pants is an obviously bad idea, but cutting the artery wasn’t a guaranteed result, even if the glass broke.


4 posted on 11/21/2012 12:52:23 PM PST by Tax-chick (Are you getting ready for the Advent Kitteh?)
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To: GSWarrior

Wow! How tragic.


5 posted on 11/21/2012 1:01:41 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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fell on an empty glass of beer

It was either a glass of beer or it was empty -- it can't be both!

6 posted on 11/21/2012 1:11:53 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Da Bilge Troll

An empty glass that had had beer in it... or once broken it no longer held the beer...


7 posted on 11/21/2012 1:13:06 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Da Bilge Troll

third option - it could be an empty beer glass


8 posted on 11/21/2012 1:13:39 PM PST by DKM
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Wow, okay, I'm not carrying empty glasses of beer in my pocket anymore... ummm, WAIT!... I never do that anyway... Besides, I'm trying to imagine exactly how I would have to fall and land in order to break a glass that did happen to be in my pocket, such that the glass shards could be driven deep into my leg or abdomen and sever my femoral vein/artery. The only thing I can come up with is if I took a flyin' swandive out of a second story window and landed on rocks below. Just sayin'. The cops might want to look at this cockamamie story very, very closely.
9 posted on 11/21/2012 1:13:54 PM PST by LibWhacker
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Are you hppy to see me or is that a glass of beer you have in your pocket?

Rolled up newspaper or a banana would have been a better idea.


10 posted on 11/21/2012 1:17:05 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Da Bilge Troll

Maybe a rushed machine-aided translation of the Brazilian Portuguese. The Portuguese term for a “beer glass” is the same that would be used for “glass of beer.”


11 posted on 11/21/2012 1:18:33 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: GSWarrior

Note to self: Never put a beer glass in your pocket.


12 posted on 11/21/2012 1:21:10 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: LibWhacker

Might be credible depending on how the shards formed — a stab in the groin could result just by falling on one’s face, especially if already over-beered and klutzy.

If dancing with a beer glass in one’s pocket is a Brazilian custom, they ought to consider switching to Lexan.


13 posted on 11/21/2012 1:21:39 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Another “custom” - idiots dancing with drink in their hand.
Spilling drinks on compadres and floor.


14 posted on 11/21/2012 1:22:39 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepissed)
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To: GSWarrior; Lazamataz; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows

Attention shoppers: The young widow is now available!


15 posted on 11/21/2012 1:25:25 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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Perhaps they carry it so that they can “drink” to a particularly winsome dance partner right on the spot? (Then what goes in the other pocket, a beer bottle?)


16 posted on 11/21/2012 1:27:22 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Revolting cat!

Now that’s disrespectful... unless they’re rednecks (just kidding about rednecks. sort of)


17 posted on 11/21/2012 1:29:06 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

If they’re rednecks, the bride’s cousin invited as a guest to the wedding already married her there and then.


18 posted on 11/21/2012 1:32:36 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Yeah, the backup groom!


19 posted on 11/21/2012 1:33:37 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: GSWarrior

At the risk of being mean-I think the deceased deserves a Darwin nomination-that was realy, really dumb...


20 posted on 11/21/2012 1:37:13 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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