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Please, please, somebody tell me that he was signing “My hovercraft is full of eels.”
Regards,
Shodan
BBC reported the Secret Service saying the South African government was trusted with vetting their people. And they also reported the only moments of hostility on the occasion was loud booing at President Jacob Zuma, which the government tried to edit out of news broadcasts. Sounds like things aren’t all rosy with this government.
It was only half full.
Now BBC is routinely referring to the guy as a “violent schizophrenic.”
Hard to believe everyone in the audience–worse; everyone in control of the meeting–was too stupid to realize after the first 30 seconds that Bozo was faking it.
One suspects this degree of incompetence is fairly routine given the rather blase initial defense of the fiasco. But you gotta give the signer credit for having cajones. Everybody’s gotta eat, even if you were “success deferred” in signing class. (Or perhaps at the head of the class. Who knows? Maybe he’s the best they got.)
Well that’s how he described himself. Maybe they should have stated it as "self described violent schizophrenic.
That’s some catch, that Catch-22…
This is one of the most bizarre stories I’ve heard in awhile.
Now they’ve stopped referring to him as a “violent schizophrenic.” Maybe someone complained. But they’re clearly loving this story.
I think it’s unlikely, which is why I put the 99% comment, but it’s not impossible, depending on who it is. What if it’s the long time personal assistant or spouse of the head of State the President is meeting? You think the other government will just say “Sure, we’ll bar Mrs. Prime Minister from the state dinner we’re giving in Obama’s honor.” ?
It now appears that he has a long rap sheet, including accusations of theft, housebreaking, rape, kidnapping, and murder.
The Secret Service must be shitting a brick right now. This guy was just a few feet from our President.
Security concerns aside, the incident has produced one of the best gifs I’ve ever seen:
That right there. .gif of the Mother Effin Year.
To be fair, it’s not that easy finding someone in South Africa not thusly accused.
This is going to keep me laughing all day.
This is right up there with Osama bin Laden and Bert as you-just-couldn’t-make-this-up hilarious news stories.
(On the recent season 3 of the Joe Schmo Show, a fake reality show in which one person thinks they are on an “actual” reality competition show, but everyone else there is a professional actor hired to try to make the situation as hilarious and bizarre as possible, one of the other “contestants” was deaf, and had a sign language interpreter… except that the actress playing the deaf contestant was not actually deaf, and the actor playing the sign language interpreter was not actually a sign language interpreter.)
memorials haven’t been good for this guy.
Quirk on Mandela statue causes stir
Possibly it’s just on this computer and browser combo, but when I click on that link, the story with the headline “Quirk on Mandela statue causes stir” has a pretty big photo of the statue at the top of the article, and there’s a blue box (which I guess launches one of those slideshows)…except the blue box is centered right on top of the late president’s crotch! :smack:
Wait, what is this statue’s “quirk”?!?
(Oh. It’s a little teensy-tiny rabbit in his ear, which is some sort of “signature” for the sculptors. Definitely not what I pictured when I first saw that illustration. :eek: )