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And you thought that football hooligans were bad:

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A South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup football match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the north-eastern part of the country, police said on Thursday.

David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Australia play Germany in the World Cup.

The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.

"He said, 'No, I want to watch soccer,'" police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said on Thursday.

"That is when the argument came about.

"In that argument, they started assaulting him."

Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang.

Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to kill Makoeya.

"It appears they banged his head against the wall," Malefo said.

"They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead."

All three were arrested on Sunday night, but Lebogang was released on 1500 rand ($230) bail on Tuesday, Malefo said, and the other two are still being held in custody.

Malefo said the mother and son would reappear in the local Seshego Magistrates Court on July 27.

"He was always a happy man, never violent," Makoeya's nieces, Miriam and Anna, told the Daily Sun newspaper.

"On Saturday, we saw him the last time at a funeral."

Poor guy. So much for 'thou shall not kill'!

shafique wrote::shock:

Poor guy. So much for 'thou shall not kill'!

So much for common-sense. All it takes is the slightest reason to insult another religon and that's enough to excite you! LOL..Poor guy indeed!

Touchy.

When did quoting the Bible (against what the family did to the man) become an insult?


Cheers,
Shafique

Wow, kickball is a pretty popular activity outside Canada and the States.

Red Necks !

desertdudeshj wrote:Red Necks !

Well that would be black necks...

actually!



Knight

I was talking about the kickball comment

desertdudeshj wrote:I was talking about the kickball comment

Yes it seems EH is only aware of games with funny shaped balls or a puck...

or something that rhymes with it...



Knight