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2010-01-10 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican cartel dismembers body, stitches victim's face on soccer ball

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Posted by tipper 2010-01-10 05:43|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 that puts a human face of the drug violence

*runs*

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-10 07:28|| 2010-01-10 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 of on

/dammit

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-10 07:28|| 2010-01-10 07:28|| Front Page Top

#3 ~~Nixon~~ Hernandez "You won't have ~~Nixon~~ Hernandez to kick around anymore...ooh no.

Posted by tipper 2010-01-10 08:39|| 2010-01-10 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 You have to give them a technical award for this, however, if you consider the degree of difficulty involved in stitching a face to a soccer ball. Ordinary glue would have been sufficient, but stitching to a ball isn't easy.

To start with, a soccer ball shell is made from a geometric shape called a truncated icosahedron:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Truncated_icosahedron_flat.png

Because a human face is curved, to do the job properly, you have to start stitching when the pattern is flat, then continue while the pattern itself is being shaped into a ball. The finally, just before the shell is folded, the balloon ball has to be inserted.

So the police should start looking at any nearby soccer ball factories. Only they would have the industrial strength sewing machines that could stitch through the tough leather.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-01-10 09:20|| 2010-01-10 09:20|| Front Page Top

#5 I've never understood the nuances of soccer. Does this warrant a red card?

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-10 10:40|| 2010-01-10 10:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Its about 8:30 AM on Sunday morning and I'm reading a technical discussion about sewing a human face to a soccer ball.

Life is simply amazing sometimes.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-01-10 11:31|| 2010-01-10 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 I thought hockey was the only game with a face-off.

Posted by SteveS 2010-01-10 12:32|| 2010-01-10 12:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Frank, Steve,

Go to your rooms.

Posted by Pappy 2010-01-10 14:04|| 2010-01-10 14:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Yep, football-mindless viölence, meet each other, enjoy.

Posted by Rhodesiafever 2010-01-10 20:05|| 2010-01-10 20:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Funny, my four year-old son keeps referring to "faceball." Little did I know the game really exists.

Posted by lex 2010-01-10 23:24|| 2010-01-10 23:24|| Front Page Top

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