Customer victim of TV rage after switching soccer channel

Discussion in 'The Beautiful Game' started by Damon_D., Dec 31, 2002.

  1. Damon_D.

    Damon_D. New Member

    Mar 28, 2002
    MD
    http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

    Singapore (dpa) - A Singapore coffeeshop patron who changed the TV channel from a European league football match ended up with a broken nose and cuts on his head requiring 23 stitches, a police report said on Tuesday.

    Wong Hon Ming, 48, said customers hurled beer bottles and mugs at him, requiring three days of hospitalization when he switched off the Italian league match between Juventus and Lazio.

    ``Beating me up over a TV channel? These people are so vicious,'' he told the daily newspaper Streats.

    ``To think I just chatted with one of them just before they attacked me,'' he added.

    Wong said he frequently went to the coffeeshop to unwind and had changed the channel on other occasions without any incidents.

    Since there was another match between Spanish teams Barcelona and Sevilla on another channel, Wong took the remote to take a look.

    After clobbering Wong with the bottles and mugs, three of the angry men ran off.


    Doesn't look like this has been posted yet.

    I posted the text because Drudge changes his flash1 article frequently.

    The thugs probably had money on the Italian game, Singapore's big on Euro soccer betting.

    There had to be lots of witnesses there, they should've been caught by now. Is Singapore the place where they have canings?
     
  2. mactheknife

    mactheknife New Member

    Aug 2, 2002
    Baton Rouge, LA
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    yeah, that's the place for canings alright.

    who wants to watch barca-sevilla? hmm, lets see...itilian match between two big clubs or...an underacheiving megaclub and...sevilla. he deserved it hahaha.
     
  3. copaantl98

    copaantl98 Member

    Apr 9, 2002
    Doesn't this belong in the World Rivalries?
     

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