We’ve all been waiting for the first country to absolutely crack under the pressure of the vuvuzela menace. And to no one’s surprise, our winner is … Germany. Too bad the plastic trumpet wasn’t around in the 1940s … the war would have been over a couple of years earlier.
Actually, in our our first story, it was an American living in the Bavarian city of Weiden who confronted his neighbors during Thursday’s Netherlands-Cameroon World Cup game, and threatened them with an ax if they didn’t turn down the sound.
They said he was so sick of the constant buzzing and honking from the vuvuzelas since the tournament began that he screamed: “I will kill you,” and then returned home.
German authorities took the U.S. Army civilian employee into custody and turned him over to U.S. military police. The military says he has been released and the matter is in German hands.
Meanwhile, in another part of Germany, a drunken fan severely beat a police officer with a vuvuzela following Germany’s win over Ghana on Wednesday. From The Local:
Most of the celebrations in the town of Dinslaken just north of Duisburg were peaceful after the game, which more than 10,000 people turned out to watch, the Wesel county police department reported.
But at 11:10 pm, one intoxicated 20-year-old fan began taunting a police officer who was directing traffic around a gathering of some 1,500 people.
“As he turned to the 20-year-old, the man suddenly began hitting and kicking the officer,” the statement said. “Furthermore he began pounding the officer’s head with a vuvuzela.”
Vuvuzelas, the South African plastic stadium horns introduced to the world at this year’s World Cup tournament, are controversial in Germany due to what many consider their irritating sound.
But to be fair, it doesn’t take much to irritate the Germans.
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Vuvuzela Sparks Ax Murder Threat by Neighbor [CBS News]
Drunk football fan beats police officer with vuvuzela [The Local]
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- Jon Fox - Jun 29, 2010 at 11:25 AM
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“It doesn’t take much to irritate the Germans” ??
If such a racist statement was said about “Jews” instead of Germans, I can imagine the punishment that would take place for such a statement!
Please don’t make racist ignorant statements about one group of people, just because it is the only group of people in the whole world that no one can ever be held accountable or punished if such statements are made against them.
“to be FAIR”, as you put it, no respectable human being owns or uses a vuvuzela, regardless of race or religion.
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