South African man beat to death for watching World Cup

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/story/_/id/5297052/ce/us/south-african-man-killed-wife-kids-changing-tv-germany-australia-game?cc=5901&ver=us
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.

"In that argument, they started assaulting him."

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.

Malefo said he was not sure what the family used to kill Makoeya.

"It appears they banged his head against the wall," Malefo said. "They phoned the police only after he was badly injured, but by the time the police arrived the man was already dead."

wtf

ummm... how do you respond to something like this? I honestly don't know what to say. This isn't human behavior its fucking animals...

crazy shit, the man was fucking 61. They beat an old man to death.

extremely sad

Terrible to read something like this and I feel bad for the guy. I don't see why a wife and two sons would kill a Husband/Father over a TV show? Maybe we don't know the whole story? This guy could have been a drunk who beat them their whole life? Maybe they were just religous fanatics? Who knows? Terrible ending either way. All I know is most Africans are crazy as hell!

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bigbeastcardinal12 wrote:

Terrible to read something like this and I feel bad for the guy. I don't see why a wife and two sons would kill a Husband/Father over a TV show? Maybe we don't know the whole story? This guy could have been a drunk who beat them their whole life? Maybe they were just religous fanatics? Who knows? Terrible ending either way. All I know is most Africans are crazy as hell!

What is crazy is they wanted to watch some religious program....so they beat him to death? Yeah real Godly.

OUSOONERSOU wrote:

crazy shit, the man was fucking 61. They beat an old man to death.

an old man who was ones husband and the others father

Religion is so fucked up.