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New for Winter, your own World Cup Stab Vest

Started by Savonarola, January 18, 2010, 02:08:25 PM

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Savonarola

QuoteSouth Africa condemns World Cup stab-vests 

Officials say the stab-vests might draw attention to those wearing them
South Africa's authorities have condemned a London-based company which wants to sell stab-vests to visiting football fans during the World Cup.

The national police says the company was causing "unnecessary fear".

South Africa's football boss Kirsten Nematandani has assured visitors that all safety measures were in place.

South Africa has one of the world's highest rates of violent crimes but the authorities say they will tighten security for the tournament.

Protektorvest, which currently sells its merchandise online, says there is a "high demand" for protective clothing and claim the stab-vests which cost close to $70 (£43) are the "No 1 personal protection for the World Cup 2010".

Fans can add their national flag to the vest, or slogans such as "Free hugs" or "Ole".

Protektorvest owner Sascha Cutura denied that the company was saying South Africa was unsafe.

"We fulfil a need from security-conscious people," he told the BBC.

'Out of order'

Mr Nematandani chastised the company's owners and called for them to be "condemned by their own country's officials".

"These people are out of order... we've never heard of such measures being taken before and there surely is no need for it," he said, South Africa's Times newspaper reports.

According to their website, the company plans to open offices near South Africa's OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg for the duration of the World Cup.

Mr Cutura said this is where the company hopes to sell most of its vests.

The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says security officers usually advise foreign travellers to guard against "standing out".

She says tourists wearing stab-vests at football matches or on sight-seeing trips may attract more attention to themselves - potentially increasing their chances of being attacked.

Mr Cutura pointed out that the vests could also be worn underneath clothes to avoid attracting too much attention.

Fan groups in England have also condemned the vests.

So what would you get put on your stab vest?

I'd have mine done up like a Buffalo Bill's Jersey with number 32 on it. 

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Quote from: Savonarola on January 18, 2010, 02:08:25 PM
So what would you get put on your stab vest?

Something like "You're is a contraction, your is possessive."
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frunk

The point isn't to get people to stab you Habbaku.

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I know I'd certainly want one if I were to go to South Africa.
Except of course for the drawing attention factor.
Quite the quandry.
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Quote from: Tyr on January 18, 2010, 03:31:23 PM
I know I'd certainly want one if I were to go to South Africa.
Except of course for the drawing attention factor.
Quite the quandry.

I´d want an armoured transport vehicle. <_<

Habbaku

Quote from: frunk on January 18, 2010, 03:28:03 PM
The point isn't to get people to stab you Habbaku.

Not much of a stab vest, then.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien