Family values: Man killed for watching soccer instead of Gospel Program (The Onion NOT)

[panzerfaust]

JOHANNESBURG - Police say a South African man who wanted to watch a World Cup match instead of a religious program was beaten to death by his family in the northeastern part of the country.

David Makoeya, a 61-year-old man from the small village of Makweya, Limpopo province, fought with his wife and two children for the remote control on Sunday because he wanted to watch Germany play Australia in the World Cup. The others, however, wanted to watch a gospel show.

"He said, 'No, I want to watch soccer,'" police spokesman Mothemane Malefo said Thursday. "That is when the argument came about...

Malefo said Makoeya got up to change the channel by hand after being refused the remote control and was attacked by his 68-year-old wife Francina and two children, 36-year-old son Collin and 23-year-old daughter Lebogang .... http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/37756208/ns/sports-world_cup/ ...

Truly not from The Onion. Though I had just previously been on The Onion site looking at their thumbnail guide to football (soccer) http://www.theonion.com/interactive/the-onion-sports-introduction-to-world-cup-soccer,17558/

Gimme that Ol Time Religion.

[Initech]

1. Oh jesus.

[trotsky]

2. Rec'd just for that Onion graphic.

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[Touchdown]

3. I know soccer is boring, but c'mon!

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