Wacko of the Week, 05/31/08

VACLAV TICHY, and friends, Czech Football Federation


In Europe, soccer is a big deal. Or, as Europeans refer to the sport, Futbal.

There was a gala event in Prague this week. The Czech Republic's home team was facing a match against a prestigious rival. Appropriately, national anthems were played: that of the Czech Republic and that of Latvia. The Czech and Latvian flags were flown.

Unfortunately, it was the Lithuanian team that had showed up. As scheduled.

My, wasn't there embarrassment. And anger. The LIthuanians did not want to be represented as Latvians. Apologies were offered, even to the level of ambassadors and governments.

Mr. Tichy the President of the Czech Football Federation was forced to resign. Well, he offered to take responsibility, and Bingo! the responsibility was assessed. His assistant was fired, as well.

The Czechs won the match, 2-0. That's one point per fired functionary. CLICK
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Also in the running:
1. The Rev. Howard Douglas Porter, who went on trial in California this week for murder in the death of a crippled man whose estate he was in change of. The estate was worth 2.5 million and his Reverence had managed to transfer much of it to Mexico, allegedly. The dead man was thus configured as a consequence of an auto accident in which the Reverend was driving, and the poor deceased was crippled as a consequence of a previous auto accident in which the Reverend was driving. CLICK

2. Cody Eugene Williams, 27, of California, was arrested this week, naked, and attempting to fornicate with the windshield of a taxi cab on a public street. This is considered bad form, even in California where strange things often happen. And, ahem, he is. it seems, a serial offender. As one wag remarked, this is a form of auto-eroticism. CLICK

3. Maulvi Ziauddin, of Pakistan, a poor struggling teacher, whose idea of punishment was to hang a seven year-old student upside from a ceiling fan. The boy died. The teacher is in the slammer.
Oh, by the way, the kid was punished for not reading his Koran. The teacher will now be punished for reading his. There is a saying about paths of destruction and good intentions, but I forget. Was that in the Koran or in the Bible? CLICK