Don't Mix With Soccer
At UF, we do a lot of drinking and arguing. Just see our daily email thread, for example, or join us at Keeleys or Kinsale one weekend.
Sometimes, these spats end in awkward silence, a spilled beer, some colorful language, a rueful look. However, we’re never likely to take it to the level that a German man took it yesterday.
According to AP reports, two Italian men stopped into a Hannover bar after work and got in an argument with a German over the pedigrees of their respective countries. Things got heated, as they often do… and then the German shot his debate opponents in the head.
Said a police spokesman: “According to our current investigations, the three men got into an argument in the pub in the morning about, among other things, the success of Italy and Germany in previous World Cups. After this, the suspect is thought to have left the pub, returned a bit later and fired at the two victims.”
This is just another depressing soccer/death story to emerge from the World Cup, though it seems just a little sadder to think how entirely wasteful this is. Police are still searching for the 42-year-old gunman.
