SAO PAULO (AP) -- 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 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. 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.
I guess they don't have metal detectors at soccer games. My question is what kind of weapon did they use to decapitate a guy at a soccer game? Did they miss they guy carrying an axe or machete into the game??
In honor of his service, the Brazilian Soccer Federation has named da Silva head of the official's union.
If they really wanted to honor him the officials union would go headless I would think. The "beautiful game" might catch on in the U.S. with the addition of decapitations. Maybe here in the Lone Star State they could have a "Texas Chainsaw Match." I just realized this was my 2500th post. So I dedicate it to John The Baptist, various monarchs of France, the wives of King Henry VIII, Eddard Stark, and of course Otavio da Silva.
