Posted on 07/19/2016 6:44:24 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
Flame on. While the Olympic torch was being carried through the Brazilian city of Joinville on Thursday, a man attempted to put out the flame with a fire extinguisher. A runner ran through the streets with the torch when a spectator came out of nowhere and did his best to extinguish the flame. The man got one burst of the extinguisher off before he was swarmed by security. The attempt was, fortunately, a failure, but even in failure, a second attempt doesn't bode well for the remaining days of torch transit. We don't know the most recent attacker's motivations, but his actions build on the initial douse attempt from late June. The torch was passing through the southwestern Brazilian city of Maracaju when a 27-year-old man threw a bucket of water at the torch. The splash missed, hitting the carrier and security guards.
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The number of a-holes grow by the day.
For some reason that headline just really cracked me up . Not sure why, but thinking about it a bit, the wheels are really falling off all over the place.
In Brazil, at least, a case can be made that there is something--lots of things actually--in the water.
No kidding. With body parts washing up in the swim venue, police on strike over late pay, zika, presidential impeachment, super bacteria in the water, open warfare in the favelas: The Rio Olympics are shaping up to be quite a show.
Ditto
I have grown to dislike the Olympics, not because of the athletes of course. It is a commie run organization filled with corruption, and it does more to bankrupt nations than promoting athleticism.
It needs to be broken up. They should have events in multiple countries venues instead of building brand new massive infrastructure in one place each time. Tens of billions are spent on throwaway infrastructure. What a joke! Pray they never come to your state.
If the jamoke wanted to do it right, he needed good size Dry Chemical, not some wimpy CO2!
Maybe it was skeeter spray...
Guy running with torch, being chased by guy with fire extinguisher. The first visual I got was someone running around their house trying to pee on the cat.
But if they hold different events in different countries then how are the athletes going to have one big orgy together?
You ain’t kidding. More every day, trying to out-do each other with the stupid...
Spot on drop!
Can we do that at BLM riots?
Or the loss of condom sales!
The first I heard of Twitter was the last Olympics in Russia.
I think we should start with fire-hoses first.
Smokey Bear?
You’ll like this one,TSR!
So if someone manages to put out that torch...then what? No Olympic games? Everything canceled, don’t bother coming?
Or just light it up again and continue? IOW, who cares.
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