Luke Rodgers blasts ball at woman’s head
I would have kicked a ball at her head too her hairstyle blows. Luke Rodgers evened up New York's conference semifinal against the L.A. Galaxy in the fourth minute of the second leg on Thursday night. A minute later he was booked and two minutes after that, he kicked the ball into the stands in frustration, narrowly missing a woman standing behind the advertising board. Despite the near decapitation, Rodgers did make it through the full 90 minutes without getting sent off. L.A. did, however, score twice to advance on a 3-1 aggregate score, though.
This isn't the first time Rodgers fired a missile at a woman's head, though. In 2002, he was ordered to pay compensation after disfiguring a teenage girl's face with a firework outside a West Midlands pub. Thankfully, this incident didn't end as horrifically as that one, but maybe it's time the 29-year-old stops launching things at bystanders.
A look back at the band’s theatrics : GWAR guitarist dies
Fans of GWAR, the shock rock speed metal band known for its monstrous costumes, are mourning guitarist Cory Smoot, who was found dead Thursday as the band was traveling to Canada for an upcoming show. Smoot, known to fans as the character Flattus Maximus, had been a member of the band since 2002.According to the Associated Press, Smoots age and cause of death are unclear. Smoot was the sixth guitarist to play the role of Flattus Maximus, and in taking the role, he became a part of the the band’s theatrical onstage mythology. To see a GWAR concert is to see a series of comically gory vignettes, acted out by musicians in monstrous costumes that may have been inspired by the creatures of H.P. Lovecraft.
