vengeful Brazilian soccer fans behead referee

[Michchamp]

apparently the referee had stabbed a player to death after the player struck him while disputing a call. then the players' family invaded "the pitch" (that's what non-Americans call "the field"), tied up the ref, beat him, lynched him, then decapitated his corpse and placed it on a pike in the middle of the field (!!!)

ESPN reported it. I thought it might be embellished a bit, but Deadspin reported it too, and included video (which I did NOT watch)

what.

the.

fuck?

 

[redandguilty]

I just saw the SI version of the story.

"rushed into the field, stoned the referee to death and quartered his body."

What millennium is this?

 

[tigersofjustice]

I mentioned what happened to somebody in my family without mentioning first that the ref killed a guy. Then I mentioned that he killed a guy and it brought an, "oh well that makes sense" type response at which point I presented a dumbfounded look.

Stoning, quartering and decapitating someone never makes sense. Not if he murdered an entire village would it make sense in modern civilized society.