Prankster's balls of concrete

German police are hunting a 'prankster' who has been filling footballs with concrete.

The footballs have been left around Berlin with signs saying: "Can you kick it?"

Six of the concrete stuffed footballs have been found so far, all chained to fences.

A spokesman for the Berlin police said: "So far two young men, a 21-year-old and a 23-year-old, have been treated for injuries to their feet after kicking the footballs.

"We think they could have been left by someone who is sick of the World Cup and are investigating the matter as the balls seem to be deliberately designed to injure."
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Good i HATE soccer aka football

well that gave me a good chuckle that must have ben priceless to see those fools kick the ball

The people with the sore feet are the dumb ones. Just run up and kick it. Idiots.

Thats what they get for listening to soccerballs.

BTW: This whole soccer is called football thing is really confusing me.

Also maybe you should reword the title............

haha thats funny priceless joke

That's what they get I geuss.

Great joke. Wish I thought of something like that. Must have been really funny to
watch the looks on their faces when they kicked the ball.

I wish they had it on video!

/quote BTW: This whole soccer is called football thing is really confusing me.

What the world needs to do, to avoid this soccer/football confusion, is to give american football a name distinguishable from football, i dunno.. call it ploppalongo or something .

Or just use the name soccer.

I'm pretty sure this has been done before... I think I've heard of it.

Still, this is funny as hell. I mean, who really randomly looks at a ball on the street with a sign THEN actually kicks it?

Well, they arrested two suspects

thats pretty funny. damn that would hurt to if you gave her a running kick.

Wow, The expression on their faces when they kick the balls must be priceless

The expression of pain?

hey Charlie Brown come over here!!

Wrong sport!

Maybe if they put a couple of those in Manchester and Liverpool they'd get some riots started. Now that would be nice to see.

i used to do that prank when i was a kid,, fill the ball with stones put it down the road then wait. some man comes along we shout, hey mister kick our ball to us will ya.. and the rest is priceless. we dident even have to run away cos the could only limp after us...hehehehehehehehehehehehehe

Football as in futbol, European football, American soccer...

Well they could, but since it was being called football in tudor times, theres no need to change the name of the game just because americans who cant even play the game think it should be so. Remember , your a peripheral nation where football is concerned, nobody listen to your peripheral opinion , because it doesnt matter.. no matter how much importance you americans regards yourselves with.

So .. Football it is )

If I remember correctly, the US Womens team is one of the most dominating teams in football/soccer.

They are ?

Im sure FIFA are trembling at the very thought

football... look at it this way , you like your baseball game ? , lets say we (europeans) just went and made a new game and called it baseball, then said oh doh, look we got two games called baseball, the best thing to do is get americans to change the name of their game, get them to call it batball , youd be pissed off ? , thats how we feel about football

It seems American women won the Ladies world cup a few years ago-Blowing your theory to crap that we can't play the game...Just be happy the American men don't play soccer with gusto..We have better things to do...We'd whip your ass in that the same way we win at the Olympics (could anyone imagine Ray Lewis playing soccer??). I watched most of the WC games-at least I tried to before falling asleep just about every game. (Even in the middle of the friggin' morning!!)-I gave it my best shot and the conclusion?? It's as boring as a game can possibly be without being called 'Watching Paint Dry'...Now run along and play your dull little game..

I disagree, I play American Football and have since 1st grade. the only soccer i played was in gym. But i found the world cup very exciting.

The best athletes in America play football and basetball. You are all lucky they dont play your futbol because then the U.S. would be a power too. I'm not saying they'd dominate but they would contend for the cup every time.

Concrete in a soccer ball......that's so wrong but funny.

IMO i find soccer more intresting then baseball.

So lessee you come out and attack me over the name of a game? Or is it because I'm American? Hhmmm? Jealousy is a horrible emotion isn't it?

Maybe you should check the forum rules before you start American bashing and name calling for no reason.

*Chuckles*

And here I was hoping that it was another story of stupid Americans.

Thought you guys over in Europe were smarter than that. *Giggles more*

I'd have to say we should change the name of American football and change soccer to football. Or switch the names around.

Now all we have to do is switch to the metric system too, calculations would definitely be a lot easier.

I don't see what's so hard about just saying "American football".... Americans are the only ones who call European football soccer. When I lived over in England I lived around a lot of Americans who were all overseas and we all just said "American football" or "European football". No big deal.

All right. Let's not change the subject into a p1ss1ing match. European's can name their balls what they want,... and we can name our balls what we want. So everyone keep your ball names to yourself.
And I do believe soccer (European football) was around before American football.

Back to the subject.
That must have been great. You know the suspect was probably standing somewhere close by just to see the damage.

Yeah it was.

Who cares what you call it. If you enjoy playing it cool. and for those that wonder where we got the name soccer http://www.wordorigins.org/. I like American Football. Not exactly sure why we call it football seeing as kicking the ball is a small part of it considering the name. Fun to play and watch either way.

LOL...well said

I find everything more interesting than baseball...('cept pro golf..)

true i dont see what all the fuss is about either

wait.. why did the gut who made football name it football? you dont even kick the ball.... well maybe like 6 times a game...not enough to call it football though........
i confused myself.

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It seems American women won the Ladies world cup a few years ago-Blowing your theory to crap that we can't play the game...Just be happy the American men don't play soccer with gusto..We have better things to do...We'd whip your ass in that the same way we win at the Olympics (could anyone imagine Ray Lewis playing soccer??). I watched most of the WC games-at least I tried to before falling asleep just about every game. (Even in the middle of the friggin' morning!!)-I gave it my best shot and the conclusion?? It's as boring as a game can possibly be without being called 'Watching Paint Dry'...Now run along and play your dull little game.

I can imagine them in the centre, doing their 'gusto' warm ups. The europeans/ south americans team they were to play would be transfixed by awe . Then this american team would follow on with the gusto and with the ray lewis in the team go fly about the pitch with said gusto kicking the goals in with random abandon till the south americans / europeans conceded with the cry 'we cannot compete with the gusto' .

Tell that to Togo...that African nation with a pop. of about 1 million who caned USA at the w/cup...

Off topic:

Hey tooth, that has got to be the funiest animated gif I have every seen! Still freeking laughing!

Thanks!

Yeah i bet, i'd love to see it... not that i'm a bad person or anything.