[Cagey]

A soccer ball lies on the pitch during a match in Berlin June 30, 2006. World Cup pranksters in Berlin injured at least two soccer fans by inviting them to kick soccer balls that they had secretly filled with concrete, authorities said Tuesday.

[Cagey]

Good Grief!

[Mr. Mojo]

the spray-painted message: "Can you kick it?" Police said they had identified a 26-year-old and a 29-year-old

Was one of their names "Lucy?"

[caver]

So the Germans can arrest you because someone else is stupid? Makes sense.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Finally.... a way to make soccer exciting.

[Publius6961]

What's wrong with those people?
Prosecuting contributors to improving the human gene pool.

They should get a medal. Soccer fans have been shown statistically to have an average IQ 50% under everyone else...

[Mr. Brightside]

In junior high shop class, we would heat up quarters with a torch and toss them in the hallway right before recess.

Glad I didn't live in Berlin growing up. We'd be in jail.

[llevrok]

Germans have cement balls?

[Constitution Day]

Someone has taken a page from Uday Hussein's Big Book of Soccer Training Methods:

(2004) Iraqi Olympic officials recently displayed tools of torture they said Uday used, including devices to crush fingers, iron masks of suffocation and cement balls players were forced to kick.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest.


Robert Heinlein

[EveningStar]

Soccer ping!

[Lucky9teen]

They've got balls.....

**Ping**

[Toby06]

You may like this one. OK, maybe not the part where people get injured, but the idea behind it all. It's so Saddam-like.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/07/MN175617.DTL