GERMANS CAN'T BE TRUSTED WITH VUVUS ANYMORE

[yourlastdiaster.livejournal.com]

BERLIN – German police say an American got so fed up with the constant mosquito-like droning from his neighbors' vuvuzela plastic horns that he threatened to kill them with an ax.

Police in the Bavarian city of Weiden said Friday the 45-year-old man confronted his neighbors during Thursday's Netherlands-Cameroon World Cup game wielding the ax.

They said he was so sick of the constant buzzing and honking from the vuvuzelas since the tournament began that he screamed: "I will kill you," and then returned home.

German authorities took the U.S. Army civilian employee into custody and turned him over to U.S. military police. The military says he has been released and the matter is in German hands.

Prosecutors are investigating whether to charge the man, whose name was not released, with making a threat and slander for allegedly calling his neighbors names.

The cheap, meter (yard)-long vuvuzela trumpets have become a side story of the World Cup in South Africa, where their buzzing has been the backdrop to every match.

Players have been criticizing the noise because they find it difficult to take advice from the bench, and visiting fans have no chance for community singing amid the noise.

A French cable TV channel even offers vuvuzela-free broadcasts for all World Cup matches, with the trumpets digitally tuned out.

Defenders include FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu — and masses of South African football fans.

The trumpets were first produced and marketed in 2001 by South African Neil Van Schalkwyk, who still owns the rights to the vuvuzela name. His latest innovation is to sell each with a pair of earplugs included.

Comments

[ovo-kinder.livejournal.com]

I am in Germany right now and OMFG it's so annoying!

[tasari.livejournal.com]

I don't see the crime here tbh.

His latest innovation is to sell each with a pair of earplugs included.

lol wow k that's just being mean.

[laduchesse.livejournal.com]

I could imagine how annoying it'd be if people were doing it around here. But you know, I still wouldn't threaten people's lives.

[ultraelectric.livejournal.com]

Well, in most countries its a crime to threaten someone with murder.

[selenia-actimel.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you your name is a tiny piece of genious?

[melj1213.livejournal.com]

GERMANS CAN'T BE TRUSTED WITH VUVUS ANYMORE

Erm no, more like Americans in Germany can't be trusted with axes.

[65kid.livejournal.com]

Haha I cannot even imagine a World Cup without the vuvuzelas, now.

[ultraelectric.livejournal.com]

LOL mte.

[selenia-actimel.livejournal.com]

that looks like something taken from a bad slasher movie.

[ovo-kinder.livejournal.com]

LOL thank you! :D

I love yours too.

[inertiacreeps32.livejournal.com]

I tried

I failed

[jessepinkman.livejournal.com]

me either! i can imagine life without them.

going to go buy one now.

[sashaj22.livejournal.com]

lol ikr??

[tasari.livejournal.com]

extenuating circumstances

[xliquidskiesx.livejournal.com]

ngl i have a hate/love relationship with the vuvus.

i fucking hate that bzzzzzzzzzzz sound BUT I love all the funny vuvuzela makros....

[sashaj22.livejournal.com]

I'm getting sick of all these Vuvuzela stories, tbh. :\

don't forget to put a source, OP ;)

[ingwerale.livejournal.com]

Nope. A deth threat counts as a criminal offense, which is not a crime per se.

[ingwerale.livejournal.com]

NO MORE AXES FOR YOU SIRS !

[ultraelectric.livejournal.com]

lol your right. I wasn't thinking.

[ultraelectric.livejournal.com]

I meant criminal offense to threaten someone, not crime. Sorry about that.

[aznlax39.livejournal.com]

How about we file a noise disturbance complaint instead of threatening axe murder, hmmm?

[meliadoul.livejournal.com]

Sepp Blatter defends the vuvuzela, so vuvuzela's are bad.

[childings.livejournal.com]

Ugh, stay classy Americans. It's not like you a reputation to uphold or anything.

[bismarcksotto.livejournal.com]

let's go after Sepp with an axe, then!



;)

[sashaj22.livejournal.com]

ikr? I mean one American acts like an asshole and it's a perfect reason to judge them all.