• Lightning kills entire football team in Africa
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[QUOTE=BBC News] All 11 members of a football team were killed by a bolt of lightning which left the other team unhurt, a Congolese newspaper has reported. Thirty other people received burns at the match in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa daily newspaper L'Avenir said local opinion - known to believe in charms and spells - was divided over whether someone had cursed the team. The two sides were drawing 1-1 in the match in eastern Kasai Province when the lightning struck the visiting team. "[I]The athletes from [the home team] Basanga curiously came out of this catastrophe unscathed,[/I]" the paper said. There was no official confirmation of the report - a rebel war affects much of the east of the country. [B]The first strike[/B] In a similar incident at the weekend, a premier league soccer match in Johannesburg was brought to an abrupt end when lightning struck the ground. Half the players from both teams - the Jomo Cosmos and the Moroka Swallows - dropped to the turf. Several writhed on the grass holding their ears and their eyes. Spectators and coaching staff ran onto the pitch to help. Fortunately no-one was killed. [/QUOTE] [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/203137.stm[/url] :science: So, lightning hits the ground, all players are mixed on the field and only the players from one team dies...
[I]Shocking![/I]
Damn, what's the chance of that happening?
Black Magic
Didn't this happen like a long damn time ago?
Watt a tragedy.
I'm a really bad person for saying this, but does this mean the other team wins by default?
I've been zapped by the shocking nature of this electrifying tale!
:tinfoil:
[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/203137.stm[/URL] [QUOTE]Wednesday, October 28, 1998[/QUOTE]
Source? edit: Ninja'd. Wow, OP's a little late.
[quote]"There was no official confirmation of the report - a rebel war affects much of the east of the country."[/quote]So it probably didn't actually happen? I don't understand. Because I'm already skeptical from the incident itself.
And people say magic doesn't exist
The story is late but I just saw it on reddit and thought it'd be worth posting.
[u][i][b]the lord has spoken![/b][/i][/u]
Reminds me of when all those cows died from having their heads in a fence.
so I can only guess the other team wins?
Well, I guess we know what team God was rooting for.
Damn I really want to see a video of this. (Not to see them die but it musta looked really odd...)
[QUOTE=mastermaul;25325153]Didn't this happen like a long damn time ago?[/QUOTE] Yes it did. I think it was African last time to.. jeeze these guys have bad luck.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL c
we just gonna take shit from reddit now (jk we always have been)
Holy shit guys has anyone heard of this new game Half-Life. It's getting fucking AWESOME reviews.
[quote=That BBC Source Article]Wednesday, October 28, 1998 Published at 14:51 GMT[/quote] Nice job being 12 years late.
So can get a scientific explanation for this?
Of all the places on earth, it happens in the most superstitious continent on the planet?
I cast level 190000 lightning Motherfuckers
this reminds me of that csi episode where there were lots of corroded wires strewn throughout a vollyball court's sand and it killed all of that team.
what were the other team called? the catholic cougars?
And the other's were unhurt. What the f-
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