World Cup 2010.

**smokey the elder** · 06-25-2010, 09:34 AM

USA made it to Round 2, beating Algeria in stoppage time!

**Catty1** · 06-25-2010, 01:54 PM

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1...uzela_violence

Police: Vuvuzela noise drives an American nuts

Fri Jun 25, 10:50 AM

By The Associated Press

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

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

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 neighbours 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.

**Kirsten** · 06-26-2010, 11:42 AM

Candace, I heard about that incident in the news yesterday!

Someone in my neighborhood is also blowing a vuvuzela all the time, but so far, I don't feel the need to kill that person!

Originally Posted by Alysser

I finally got my Italy Jersey in the mail on the day Italy is eliminated Well, at least it looks nice.

Oh, that is amost bittersweet! I'm sorry!

Originally Posted by carole

Well kirsten i see Germany is playing England, good luck, sorry but my loyalties have to lie with the Brits, being originally from the UK,but may the best man win as the saying goes.

No problem!

Well, tonight, the USA will play Ghana, and I will keep my fingers crossed for the US-team!

Richard, guess what, Paul the Octopus has predicted that Germany will win the match tomorrow. Hope he's right!

He was even on the news today! LOL