Referee Decapitated After Stabbing Player

[Woodsey]

On the one hand, I want to say "What the fuck is wrong with people?"

On the other hand, I want to say "Meh. Sad about the player though."

In which case, your other hand is somewhat psychotic.

Read this the other day - haven't felt physically nauseous from reading something in a long time.

I still don't get it. I always have a knife on my person and use it almost every day for general tasks. I would not stop carrying it if I became a football referee.

Oh, bullshit. You'd leave it in the changing room. I carry a phone on me all the time but in retail jobs you're often told to leave it in your locker as a matter of policy. You don't need a knife when you're overseeing a football match.

Let's cut the Renegade of the Wild West Internet schtick before it gets silly.

 

[siomasm]

This proves that there is a clear link between football and violence. We need to ban sales of football game tickets to minors and institute mandatory psychiatric evaluations for those minors who already play it. We need a sports rating system too.

If we don't, we can expect to see outbreaks of school hanging, drawing, and quarterings.

Nobody else noticed this bit of brilliance?

No one?

-sigh-

OT: The fact that they mutilated his corpse is secondary to the fact they tied him up and tortured him, whatever that may have consisted of. They say a mob mentality has the average intelligence of a 10 year old or some such, so not quite surprising that if someone suggests "Lets tear his shit off!" a number of idiotic participants willingly engage in the act and likely wake up the next morning wondering "What...the...F*** did I just do?".

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

I think the "whoa is humanity, lo the savagery" talk is a little overblown. 7 billion people on this planet, the vast majority of them solving their disagreements through non-violence on a daily basis. We're not perfect, but I think it's a little silly to suddenly suggest we're "no better than any other animals". I think we are.

Also, soccer/football fandom shelters some of the worst people on the planet. It's nothing to do with the actual sport, of course. I guess it's just the lightning rod around which a lot of nationalistic tendencies/outright aggression form, and when it lashes out, people die. Especially in South America.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

What the fuuuck. When I read this I wasn't exactly sure how decapitation was going to work into the story but then I read the article. That is some fucked up stuff. Over such a stupid ass sport too.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

I read the title and...

This defies all words, rationality, logic, and any sort of comprehension befitting a modern human being in the first world... which is why most stuff like this takes place in the second and third one.

I mean wow. Just. Wow. At least they didn't sew his head to the soccer ball, Game of Thrones style.

 

[kordo]

It's Brazil - 5th world country, whaddya expect? The World Cup over there is gonna be crraayyyzzaayyy...

 

[Caiphus]

Absolutely mental. I read about it this morning. It's the kind of thing that makes you check that you aren't reading an old April 1st news post or something.

Everything about the whole story is just incredible.

 

[ninjaRiv]

football... Not only is it painfully dull but it's also full of violence. Funny thing is, people who want video games banned due to violence are often big fans of sports. I wonder what they have to say about violence in the sporting world (of which there is a lot, besides this extreme case).

 

[___________________]

Football in south american countries? Not very surprised that they behave like that, unfortunately.

 

[hazabaza1]

Jesus fucking christ.
What the shit are people doing just walking around with "machete like knives"? Presumably the aduience had them as well if they fucking decapitated the guy. Jesus.

 

[Nomadic Fanatic]

Wow. So I'm definitely not going to play soccer in South America... Ever.

 

[Angie7F]

I dont understand why soccer evoke so much emotion in people.
it is just a game.

 

[omega 616]

What the fuck? You take a machete like knife to a football game you are reffing? You then stab a guy a few times? The crowd then go medieval on your ass and you end up with your head on a pike?

Did this happen in Brazil or the 1500's?

The stabbing I can understand.

You understand that a man got stabbed to death over being being given a red card? Your powers of understand FAR out weigh mine!

 

[KungFuJazzHands]

South America tends to get a bit batshit fucking crazy when it comes to football. It's not a regular match over there unless a bunch of rioting fans storm the field.

This is one hell of a new low though.

The fact that the referee had a knife and people in the public had the means to quater and decapitate someone just goes to show what kind of mentallity rages there.

I agree with the mentality being a massive issue. My countrymen seem to have a poor reputation when it comes to sports abroad, but this takes the cake.

One thing I don't get about your comment though, why is it surprising the ref had a knife?

Well uhm... I'm not an expert on the rules of football, but I would think that the use of a knife should probably not be necessary on the field. If a ref in my country got caught carrying a knife during a game, you can bet the board would give him a good sturdy talking to, if they wouldn't fire him already.

I still don't get it. I always have a knife on my person and use it almost every day for general tasks. I would not stop carrying it if I became a football referee.

According to eyewitness reports, the dude was carrying something comparable to a large carving knife, which he threw at the player. The knife was big enough to kill a man with one swing-and-release.

I'm hoping the knife you normally carry around with you isn't sizable enough to do that kind of damage.

 

[Flames66]

South America tends to get a bit batshit fucking crazy when it comes to football. It's not a regular match over there unless a bunch of rioting fans storm the field.

This is one hell of a new low though.

The fact that the referee had a knife and people in the public had the means to quater and decapitate someone just goes to show what kind of mentallity rages there.

I agree with the mentality being a massive issue. My countrymen seem to have a poor reputation when it comes to sports abroad, but this takes the cake.

One thing I don't get about your comment though, why is it surprising the ref had a knife?

Well uhm... I'm not an expert on the rules of football, but I would think that the use of a knife should probably not be necessary on the field. If a ref in my country got caught carrying a knife during a game, you can bet the board would give him a good sturdy talking to, if they wouldn't fire him already.

I still don't get it. I always have a knife on my person and use it almost every day for general tasks. I would not stop carrying it if I became a football referee.

According to eyewitness reports, the dude was carrying something comparable to a large carving knife, which he threw at the player. The knife was big enough to kill a man with one swing-and-release.

I'm hoping the knife you normally carry around with you isn't sizable enough to do that kind of damage.

I carry a reasonably sized folding pocket knife, perfectly adequate to kill someone (although so is a one inch knife).

 

[Gatx]

Heard about this the other day.

Seriously, fucked up on pretty much every level.

The stabbing I can understand. I can understand the crowd turning on him. I can even understand the crowd killing him. But decapitation, complete with placing his head on a pike? What. The. Hell.

I mean, there's violence, but THIS is something else altogether. I really just goes to show you, despite how civilized our society has become (or at least pretends to be), we're still savage creatures sometimes.

EDIT: I want to stress, even though I UNDERSTAND the violence, I don't condone it. Whew.

To me the crowd turning on him and MAYBE even the killing him part I can sort of understand because the ref just killed their favorite player (vigilante justice and what not, even though it's messed up), but the ref stabbing a player? Why/How did he even have a "machete-like knife" on his person anyway?

 

[LAGG]

I see the news-site plan of making people think it was really football related and happened in a stadium is working...

 

[LetalisK]

On the one hand, I want to say "What the fuck is wrong with people?"

On the other hand, I want to say "Meh. Sad about the player though."

In which case, your other hand is somewhat psychotic.

Read this the other day - haven't felt physically nauseous from reading something in a long time.

Just because half of my opinion doesn't involve getting emotional over it doesn't mean it's "somewhat psychotic". Not sure if you meant that as an insult or not.

 

[Mr. Q]

Great googly moogly! I know soccer fans overseas tend to get out of hand with the occasional riot, but going medieval on a ref's ass for stabbing a player is just batshit bonkers. Whats next, nuking a country if their team doesn't win Fifa?

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I'm surprised at the amount of people here not exerting a cursory amount of research who seem to be under the impression that this was some kind of professional contest when even the link in the OP describes it as an 'amateur' game. It didn't take place in a stadium, if it had done the police/security would quash any attempted pitch invasion within seconds, the confederations cup final had a combined security force of about 12,000 people for fucks sake. The game in question sounds like the Brazilian equivalent of a Sunday league match; no seats, no stands, very informal, pretty much only attended by friends and family of the players who stand around the sidelines, certainly not the kind of thing you'd have police/security on hand for. I'd be willing to hazard a guess that the audience consisted of about 100/200 people at the very most. That said, it is still very sad and shocking news to hear, pretty barbaric stuff, especially for this sort of thing to erupt over a football squabble and along with the riots it certainly isn't going to do Brazil any favours for their image, but let's not get carried away here people, this shit would never fly in any kind of professional setting let alone the fucking world cup. Don't get me wrong, it's terrible this happened, but I think quite a few people in this thread are misunderstanding the circumstances and setting of this story.

Spoiler: Here would be the stadium in question