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Man tries to put out Olympic torch with fire extinguisher in Brazil
Fox Sports ^ | 7-19-2016 | Dan Carson

Posted on 07/19/2016 6:44:24 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy

Flame on. While the Olympic torch was being carried through the Brazilian city of Joinville on Thursday, a man attempted to put out the flame with a fire extinguisher. A runner ran through the streets with the torch when a spectator came out of nowhere and did his best to extinguish the flame. The man got one burst of the extinguisher off before he was swarmed by security. The attempt was, fortunately, a failure, but even in failure, a second attempt doesn't bode well for the remaining days of torch transit. We don't know the most recent attacker's motivations, but his actions build on the initial douse attempt from late June. The torch was passing through the southwestern Brazilian city of Maracaju when a 27-year-old man threw a bucket of water at the torch. The splash missed, hitting the carrier and security guards.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016olympics; brazil; olympics
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To: A Navy Vet

Definitely a mistake going to Rio at all.

red


21 posted on 07/19/2016 9:13:32 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: Moltke
So if someone manages to put out that torch...then what? No Olympic games?

The torch running from Greece is like a primitive religious ceremony. It originated in the 1936 (Nazi) Olympics. No one needs to get stressed out if the flame has to be re-lit.

22 posted on 07/19/2016 9:40:10 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: Rebelbase; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; Covenantor; null and void; Darksheare; NoCmpromiz

Subtle, really subtle.
:D

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3450763/posts?page=8#8


23 posted on 07/19/2016 9:40:19 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: Rebelbase

Yeah, OK. And sonic cannons, too.


24 posted on 07/19/2016 9:55:11 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough)
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To: moose07; Rebelbase; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; null and void; Darksheare; NoCmpromiz; Silentgypsy
Still a looonngg way to go before catching up with the 1988 South Korean epic Flying Dove Roast Opening ceremony.

1988 S. Korea Olympic Opening Ceremony Dove Roast video

25 posted on 07/19/2016 10:23:32 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Well, now. THAT was interesting. LOL!


26 posted on 07/19/2016 11:31:59 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Monkey Face

You didn’t remember that!

They repeated that clip umpty dozen times after it happened. Only thing folks remember about the opening of the 1988 games.


27 posted on 07/19/2016 11:40:42 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Remember it well.
Laughing like a drain at it did attract a few derisory remarks....”Bovvered?”


28 posted on 07/19/2016 11:41:56 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: wideminded

Thanks - I was being sarcastic to make the point that it’s no big deal.


29 posted on 07/19/2016 11:44:48 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building)
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To: Covenantor

I thought of that immediately a few years later when I saw that the scene in “Mars Attacks,” where the pious hippie releases a dove in response to the Martian ambassador’s statement that “we come in peace!” The ambassador, frightened by the bird, promptly draws his raygun, blasts it out of the sky and the fight is on.


30 posted on 07/19/2016 12:09:42 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: moose07; Monkey Face; atomic conspiracy
Walking home after work I had noticed a cluster of people staring at an appliance story window at that epic debacle with OMGs batted back and forth. Arrived at my local pub for cold adult refreshment to find the bartender had taped the whole ceremony for the benefit of late arrivals. That scene played over and over. Quite a few wicked and witty comments were made. “Thank god puppies don't have wings!” sticks in my mind.
31 posted on 07/19/2016 12:21:39 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

I think we were in the midst of a divorce at that time, so I don’t think I was watching much TV.


32 posted on 07/19/2016 12:57:48 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I am not an early bird or a night owl. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon. FB)
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To: Covenantor

“Thank god puppies don’t have wings!”

Don’t they? d8-)


33 posted on 07/19/2016 1:29:14 PM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) Back your Dog's OS up regularly, you never know when the Cat will strike.)
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To: atomic conspiracy; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...
We don't know the most recent attacker's motivations, but his actions build on the initial douse attempt from late June.

Must be the Zika affecting their brains.

DANG!

34 posted on 07/19/2016 7:28:24 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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