Sunday's World Cup qualifier between host Liberia (motto: "Where descendants of freed slaves kill freely") and Gambia ("Come for our lions, stay because you're dead") turned ugly when overcrowding caused at least eight deaths.
Hours before the start of the match, United Nations peacekeepers had closed the gates of the stadium when it became clear that the stadium was beyond capacity. Thousands of people entered using fraudulent tickets, stranding real ticket holders outside. Stadium officials could not differentiate between the real and fake tickets and had allowed too many people to enter before they realized their mistake…
The 33,000-seat Samuel K. Doe stadium in Monrovia was packed beyond capacity for the World Cup qualifying match. The rowdy crowd pushed up against a metal bar, causing the bar to snap and sending dozens of people careening onto the floor below. They fell onto others at the game, crushing them.
And yet, stadium concessions fed a lot of people, no one got AIDS from a 14-year-old hooker, and not one fan got hacked to pieces by machete-wielding militia. The fact that only 8 people died out of so many thousands made it the fourth safest place in Africa yesterday.
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should have been you Fenway park.
8 deaths? Thats an increase of .8 over the per game average at Samuel K. Doe Stadium.
Suddenly reminded of Harry Doyle in Major League feining crowd noise with a bottle of jack in hand. With a body built for a speedo, god bless Bob Uecker.
how many clitorises were hacked off?
I had a parlay of Gambia (+1.5 goals) to the under (14 deaths).
/it's funny 'cause I don't know him
I read other reports that all 8 people killed were wearing "19-0 Patriots" t-shirts
The death toll would've been greater had many not fallen onto Sally Struthers.
Oh, and +1 RV. Ritualized female genetalia mutilization jokes always slay me.
That's going to make for one great joke: 33 thousand Liberians walk into a bar, 8 die.
Ok, maybe it's not that great a joke…
African jokes are easy (and funny), but I'd also point out that 8 deaths is an anomalously low figure when skinhead limey soccer hooligans are involved…
To be fair their was no foul play involved in any of the deaths. They were packed tighter then a box car on a one way trip to Aushwitz.
As a response to the tragedy, Liberian officials have flown in several top Mexicans to give them tips about how to successfully pack things with way more people than for what they were built. Too racist?
could not differentiate between the real and fake tickets
The fakes were made out of graham crackers.
Clitori, RC, clitori.
This could be flipped into a marketing scam for the Columbus Crew. Visiting fans get to kill one Ohioan with box seat ticket purchases to Crew Home Games.
Go Fire.
The sad part is that if you switch "tickets" with "voters" the story still works.
Keep this in perspective though. At the last BoSox games three guys fell from a rafter onto a fat man, giving him a "wicked hurtin back"
In summary, Amistad was a terrible movie.