The contest's over- we have the photo of the year

Link.

You’ve probably seen it on CNN.com already, but still- a work of art! This man is greater than the dude from Tianammen square; sure, that guy faced down a tank and climbed on top, but this dude jump kicked a freaking window!

Argentinans sure know how to riot.

And don’t overlook the covering up of the name Bush, now looking like Rush :D.

Yes, this is a man with a mesage. We must all band together to STOP RUSH. While we sit here idly RUSH is doing all kinds of harm to people from all walks of life.

STOP RUSH and that damn fool Tom Sawyer song!!!

That guy must have got himself quite badly cut. Back when we had the Toxteth riots the rioters learned to do that with a reverse kick so they didn’t get cut on the broken glass.

Kids today don’t know how to riot properly! They’ll learn the hard way when they get cut on the glass!

(Seriously, it shows Latin America is a soccer culture.)

Step 1: Leap through someone’s plate glass window.

Step 2: ?

Step 3: Stop Bush!

I dunno…it kinda looks photoshopped to me. I could be wrong…

I hope I am being whoosed!

Ok I have been whoosed! I am such a :wally

Another oddity is that the logo on his back is framed in a hexagon rather than an octagon. Do STOP signs in Argentina have 6 sides rather than 8, or is this some subtle message that BUSH, RUSH or PUSH must be stopped with some kind of tool from IKEA?

It’s just pixelated. I saw it on the front page of cnn.com a few hours ago and it was much smaller. Presumably this is a blown-up version of the same picture, which would account for the pixelation.

Duck. Calm down. It’s a photo.

(Did the guy get through the window? I’d hate to see that and then have him fall to the ground or something…)

Hey, at least nobody posted the obligatory “Worst photoshop ever !!!” so far :wink:

It looks to me like that’s shatter-proof glass he’s kicking. That means he’s gonna fall on his ass!

Nope, I didn’t photoshop it. Hell, I don’t even have photoshop!

And I never thought about the soccer thing- see, so many layers! And perhaps there’s also that we see South America being influenced by American action films!

Whoa…

And yes, I was joking about the Tiannamen thing.

Because “soccer” leads to rioting, and nothing, including facts, can change that. Stupid soccer.

“Hey, where’s the cream filling?”

I presume you meant that in a Homer Simpson sort of voice. I was just commenting on the guy’s very high kick.

I saw video of a guy kicking a big glass window. He couldn’t break it and he wasn’t wearing a “Stop Bush” vest.

They are anti-globilzation protestors so “Stop Bush” isn’t really their message.

This could be a different guy.

Actually, I think the photo of the year is the next frame in the sequence that shows the guy hanging upside down from the window bleeding out through his femoral artery.