THEY HATE ASTROTURF IN Swaziland
06.09.09Swaziland is a small, landlocked country in South Africa, where apparently players feel compelled to rip the artificial turf out of their only futbol stadium so they can hide stupid little trinkets under the field. And we wonder why those idiots are dirt poor. From Y! News (thanks, Vince)
Traditional rituals meant to help teams win their games saw the 600,000-dollar turf ripped up over the last month so the muti could be planted underneath, with the damage especially bad by the goals and at centrefield.
“This turf is hardly a year old,” Magagula told AFP. “Maybe we have to consider banning [the] one big team [responsible] because whenever that team would be playing at the stadium something strange would happen at the stadium.”
Swaziland has a GDP per capita is about $5,500 per year, but apparently you can’t put a price on good fortune. Or an AIDS vaccine.


LOOK! NEGUS!
ahahaha Guru. I was just going to post that.
Man, look at all those negus.
Big whoop. You should see what they have buried under the fields of Naziland.
Those Negus have giant murals of condoms being put on penis’s all over thier country.
40% of the people in that photo have AIDS!
Wouldn’t have been easier and cheaper just to sprinkle some goat blood on the field? I hear that works just as well. Oh Africa you wonderfully backward 3rd world continent don’t ever change.
Swaziland needs more white people.
Actually, muti is traditional medicine, not trinkets, and instead of goat blood, sometimes it actually contains human blood.
I never made it up there, but Swaziland is supposed to have really great weed. According to legend the King gave Bob Marley special dispensation to smoke as much of it as he wanted.
@Enrico: Maybe Swaziland and Switzerland can arrange a trade.
Weird. I was just wondering what Dominique Wilkins would look like in a Mexican restaurant waitress’ skirt and Uggs.