FIFA ‘vuvuzela terror’
p2pnet view Games | P2P:- Passions are burning hot at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
As the finals approach, tempers flare and all caution is thrown to the wind.
And vuvuzelas, the didgeridoo-like noise-makers which’ve seriously marred the matches throughout, have more than a little to do with it.
Ask Nels van Toor
The 44-year-old worker on a temporary contract “lost his job at Haarlem railway company Nedtrain for cutting a colleague’s vuvuzela in half”, Dutch News has the Haarlems Dagblad reporting.
“At one point someone was blowing on three of them at the same time”, van Toor told the paper, says the story, going on, “The further the Dutch progresses, the worse it gets.”
The climax came yesterday “when his workmates attached a vuvuzela to a compressed air pump”, states Dutch News, quoting van Toor as declaring:
“It is vuvuzela terror.”
When he sawed the offending instrument in two, he was “ordered to report to the boss and sacked on the spot”.
… and identi.ca
didgeridoo-like noise-makers – FIFA, the vuvuzela and The Badger, June 16, 2010
Dutch News – Man sacked after breaking colleague’s vuvuzela: media, July 8, 2010
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July 8th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Goddamn it, anyone who touches a vuvuzela should either have their front teeth knocked out or sent to North Korea!
July 8th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
The guy should have simply asked the local authorities to enforce the limits on noise that exist, however if this was a factory setting it was likely a health and safety move on this guys part to halt a potential accident, taking the noise generating toy away would not have ceased the problem and of course may have escalated the situation to an all out physical assualt and thus he acted to prevent a reoccurence when the factory managers failed to enforce the health and safety legislation. If I was him I would sue.