Soccer referee decapitated after stabbing player to death in Brazil

[chudrockz]

People really do take sports FAR too seriously. I just don't care about any of it, really.

Like at work. I live in Minnesota, and when the Vikings have a game on Sunday (or Saturday, or whenever the hell football games are normally played) EVERYONE besides me and like one or two people is decked out in purple. I don't think I even OWN a piece of purple clothing, and if I did happen to wear it on a "cheer for the Vikes" day at work it would be pure coincidence.

 

[presence]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E16apUWe1Ok (not video of incident)

Published on Jul 6, 2013
Brazil Soccer Ref decapitated after stabbing player | Fans kill Quarter football referee in Brazil ||
Brazil soccer ref decapitated after stabbing player, police say
Josenir Abreu dies from stab wound after fight on field, friends and family stone and quarter referee Otavio da Silva, put head on stake in field, Brazilian police say.

SAO PAULO—Police say enraged spectators invaded a football field, stoned the referee to death and quartered his body after he stabbed a player to death.

The Public Safety Department of the state of Maranhao said in a statement that the incident started when referee Otavio da Silva expelled player Josenir Abreu from a game last weekend. The two got into a fistfight, then Silva took out a knife and stabbed Abreu, who died on his way to the hospital.

The statement issued this week says Abreu's friends and relatives immediately "rushed into the field, stoned the referee to death and quartered his body."

Local news media say the spectators also decapitated Silva and stuck his head on a stake in the middle of the field.

Police have arrested one suspect.


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[donnay]

A scene from the movie Michael Collins. Bloody Sunday 1920.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Remember, this isn't just about the sports. The referee killed someone. He's supposed to be impartial. How they took things to such an extreme is beyond me, but it does look like it might have something to do with the "wild sports fan" factor. That ref should have known he would be in trouble when he decided to do that. Why did he follow through?

 

[oyarde]

Maybe we need to sponsor a Liberty team.

 

[Working Poor]

OMG :O

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

hmmm... an unpopular action results in:

being stoned to death
having your body quartered
and
having your head stuck on a pike in the middle of a field

Ya Know! - I think we might have just found a solution to DC's corruption problem....



-t

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

People really do take sports FAR too seriously. I just don't care about any of it, really.

Like at work. I live in Minnesota, and when the Vikings have a game on Sunday (or Saturday, or whenever the hell football games are normally played) EVERYONE besides me and like one or two people is decked out in purple. I don't think I even OWN a piece of purple clothing, and if I did happen to wear it on a "cheer for the Vikes" day at work it would be pure coincidence.

Sports teams and the fools that follow them ROCK!

Every time there is a game, you can go shopping and there will be NO LINES! - AWESOME, right?

On the down side, they built a stadium a few blocks from a library I use, and whenever there is a game you can't fine a parking space within a mile of it

-t

 

[torchbearer]

goodell got off like a bandit.
though he was covered in security at the super bowl, and couldn't go outside of his security parameters.

 

[MelissaWV]

It would have been more interesting if the referee were decapitated before stabbing the player to death.

(I think I've watched too many horror movies...)

 

[BlackTerrel]

The Public Safety Department of the state of Maranhao says in a statement that it all started when referee Otavio da Silva expelled player Josenir Abreu from a game last weekend. The two got into a fist fight, then Silva took out a knife and stabbed Abreu, who died on his way to the hospital.

And it escalated because the ref brought a knife to a fistfight. Now two people are dead when it could have ended with slight injuries and both guys move on with their lives. Sad.

Reminds me of a case here in the US where someone brought a gun to a fistfight. Similar outcome.

 

[oyarde]

It would have been more interesting if the referee were decapitated before stabbing the player to death.

(I think I've watched too many horror movies...)

I never watch that stuff . Too scary for me .

 

[BlackTerrel]

I never understood the devotion to a sport and/or sports team, and I was all-state in three sports, played football in college and love playing just about any sport, from getting beat by my wife in tennis (she's awesome) to ultimate frisbee to pickup basketball games at the park with complete strangers. I even have favorite teams in every sport that I 'root' for and love to see them win. But if they lose, meh... I couldn't care less if I can even watch the games. I'll catch the score in the paper or Espn.com and the write up. It's just a mild hobby.

But you'd think some of my friends parents just died when 'their team' loses. It ruins their whole day/week and they turn into little bitches.

My theory: people have been stripped of any ability to be secure in themselves and have lost any sense of personal identity. In part, this is the purpose of cultural Marxism which seeks to eliminate self identifying morals, norms or culture. Without anything to believe in or identify with, people attach themselves to anything and everything with the devotion and dedication that people in the past once reserved for family, friends, their work ethic and generally their personal integrity. Being a fan of a team or a sport gives people a group to identify with that has the same common interest; can share in their joy and pain; and gives them a place to pour their pent up need to be a part of something larger than themselves. Pretty much a collective of group think in which they can feel secure and welcomed do long as they say and do the right things.

To an individualist looking in from the outside, it's ridiculous.

That's way too simplistic. I think it's ingrained in us as guys. Why else would it be so cross cultural - Brazil, Japan, China, Iran, Israel, Spain, the US - name 'em all. Name me a country where sports isn't a huge deal. These countries have wildly different cultures - why are they all so into sports?

By the way compared to countries in Europe and South America we here actually take our sports far less seriously than they do.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Well one of my favorites, Hmm... Notice the name of the television broadcaster on the Fresnel light?

Bread and circuses!

It's a shame most people don't take Liberty as serious!

The "circus" part of "Bread and Circuses"..

Bread and Circuses (Star Trek: The Original Series)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Circuses_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)

 

[chudrockz]

Sports teams and the fools that follow them ROCK!

Every time there is a game, you can go shopping and there will be NO LINES! - AWESOME, right?

On the down side, they built a stadium a few blocks from a library I use, and whenever there is a game you can't fine a parking space within a mile of it

-t

On the "even more" downside, it's not "they" that build a stadium. They steal my money at gunpoint, then use it to build one. I HATE that.

 

[jmdrake]

Those Brazilians take their soccer serious! If memory serves me, Pelé was from Brazil.

In Columbia they kill you for scoring for the wrong team.

http://www.gq.com/blogs/the-q/2010/...oring-an-own-goal-well-they-made-an-incr.html

In this case I think it's more about revenge killing than soccer though. Hey, the ref thought his life was in danger! And the soccer star had some purple drank!

 

[FrancisMarion]

The ref was officiating with a knife in possession? Hmmm. Expecting some trouble?

 

[amy31416]

Are there kids at these soccer matches? Jesus.

 

[Son of Detroit]

They probably did it out of the boredom of watching a soccer game.

 

[juleswin]

Remember, this isn't just about the sports. The referee killed someone. He's supposed to be impartial. How they took things to such an extreme is beyond me, but it does look like it might have something to do with the "wild sports fan" factor. That ref should have known he would be in trouble when he decided to do that. Why did he follow through?

Right on, you read posts jumping to "bread and circuses" explanation like the govt had anything to do with it and then other are putting all the blame on the game like the initial murder never happened. Football is the beautiful game and only the haters will bash the most popular and most played sport in the world because there was one violent incident in a million matches played.

Btw this is the real football, one you actually play with your feet and not hands.