So, uh, this happened.
During a local club match in Isfahan, Iran some spectators threw a hand grenade on field, a player found it and thought it was some other object and threw it on sidelines just in time, if he had done this a few seconds later his hand would have been blasted.The game was called off and police have started investigating this case.
In case you somehow did not fixate on that blockquote for 20 minutes, SOMEBODY THREW A GRENADE ON THE FIELD DURING A SOCCER GAME. And sure, maybe I’m just a sheltered American guy who doesn’t know the hardships of the world or whatever and stuff like this happens every day, but stuff like this doesn’t happen every day because holy shit a dude threw a grenade onto the field during a soccer game.
Video of a guy seriously throwing a goddamn grenade onto the field during a soccer game is after the jump.
Excuse me for a moment while I NEVER GO NEAR A SOCCER BALL AGAIN.
[h/t to Sportsgrid]
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You’re move, Philly.
Your even.
Fake.
Here is the real video… [www.youtube.com]
The real video where the same thing happens? I don’t get it.
The explosion seems a little enhanced.
…but the same thing happens in the “real video” you just linked.
They just frame-by-frame it. The explosion only lasts for a frame, because it’s AN EXPLOSION.
It seemed fake to me to begin with, but after the liked video, it seems more like an M-80. Either way, very dangerous. Proceed.
My favorite part is how he casually picked it up and tossed it aside, not knowing it was live, as if he does that on a daily basis.
i love how #4 just shakes his hands like he’s saying “This again? C’mon guys enough with the grenades already.” while the refs run away
since no one else has made the dumb obvious internet remark I’ll be the first.
so what if he loses his hand they don’t use them anyway
/side shuffles out
seriously though thats crazy
There’s always a grenade on the pitch when Yaya Toure’s playing, amirite?!
imnotrite.
I now want there to be an action movie that involves a scene in a soccer stadium where the bad guy throws a grenade at a soccer player, the soccer player PELE KICKS the grenade right back at the bad guy & the grenade blows up in that dude’s face…I’d watch that movie.
“Victory” starring McBain?
HAHA! McBain rules.
That sounds like something out of a Jason Statham movie.
Explosiveness has always been one of the first qualities required to be a great soccer player.
Grenades have shrapnel. It couldn’t have been a grenade as many nearby people would have been injured.
I just finished reading Don Winslow’s “Savages.” Great book, don’t know about the movie–but this kind of shit no longer surprises me.
When I played in high school, the only thing remotely approaching explosive were the random “WU! TANG!” chants in the (sparse) crowd.
This is worse than my example.