Brazil: man stabs another to death, then gets cut to four pieces (possible hoax)

[civ_king]

Probably the Sickle used looked more like this one though:

I guess Maranhao is mostly a rural area, full of farmers anyway. Still somewhat alarming that they had such weapons with them at the time, although i guess the football field was just that, some field with football design and surrounded by stone seats or just vacant ground (?)

You mean rural people having work tools on them which isn't really surprising.

 

[W|M]

Maranhão has a lot of forests, so carrying a machete isn't as unusual as it is in Europe or North America. It would still be a bit weird and suspicious to see a ref carrying one around, though.

 

[Kyriakos]

You mean rural people having work tools on them which isn't really surprising.

Yes, which is why the next part of the sentence begins typically with an "although"

If we actually knew what sort of football field/area it was, it would be easier to guess how easy it would have been for the referee and his executioners to have weapons/dangerous farming tools.

 

[Borachio]

That's a bill-hook. Still, you could certainly lop someone's leg off with one.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Maranhão has a lot of forests, so carrying a machete isn't as unusual as it is in Europe or North America. It would still be a bit weird and suspicious to see a ref carrying one around, though.

It wasn't the ref who dismembered and beheaded his victim.

 

[W|M]

The article in the previous page says that the ref had a machete, though.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Hmm. How odd. It must take a particularly brave or stupid man to physically assault someone with your fists when the other person has a machete. And the other reports claimed he was stabbed, not hacked to death.

Sounds like this one account got their facts backwards.

 

[W|M]

Or that this is a hoax.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Are we back to that again? A story which has received international prominence and hasn't been debunked by the authorities after a number of days might be a hoax?

 

[classical_hero]

Or that this is a hoax.

So because it puts your country in a bad light, it's a hoax?

 

[civ_king]

So because it puts your country in a bad light, it's a hoax?

It is not everyday that real life goes Game of Thrones on people.

 

[Azale]

Or that this is a hoax.

Sorry bro, I think you're in "fake moon landing" territory at this point without some counter-evidence.

 

[Kyriakos]

Just to note that i quoted from a translation of the police article (in portuguese) by a mere forum member of some other site. It seems quite evident by now that he just used the wrong term for the weapon the referee had. It was a knife used for fishing practices (gutting), which he thought would be a machete, but obviously he was wrong there

So this post should be utterly correct:

I can't see it being a machete. It's not something you could run around a football pitch with - about your person. And, besides, machetes are slashing not stabbing implements.

A fish-gutting knife would make sense. Nicely sharp and pointy.

 

[Borachio]

Yes. I'm inclined to think it's not a hoax. I wish it were one. (Though it would be very poor taste.)