Lunatics and Eccentric Behaviour

No matter how normal society wants to be there will always be lunatics and people with eccentric behavior that will stuff up that maxim and ultimately make life interesting for those around them.

Springbok rugby coach Peter De Villiers, who will from this day on be referred to as P Divvie, gave us a bit of an insight into the mind workings of a loon when he came out with a barrage of unacceptable comments after the second test between the British and Irish Lions and the Boks.

Concerning the Schalk Burger eye gouging incident, P Divvie said that we should all go to the shops and buy ballerina outfits and change our sport because rugby is to physical for us.

Now although Divvie has a point in that the Brtis are not renowned as the hardest men on earth, however, a) you cant support an incident such as that as eye gouging is pretty serious, b) its one thing calling the Brits a bunch of soft bastards among friends, but you cant do such things in the media. You will be branded a loon. Oh… and then he made a comment along the lines of: if South Africans wanted to go around eye gouging people they would go to the Northern Cape and do it there, again a poor stab at our racial past. He also tried his hand at being the next Mohammed Ali, telling the world how great and unstoppable he is, except... who would take a person who’s voice hasn’t dropped yet seriously.

Another mad bastard is the president of the ANC Youth League…. South African Rocket Scientist of the year 2008….. Julias Malema.

Malema was in the equality court last Friday for comments made in the run up to the 2009 Presidential elections. In the run up to the elections there was a lot of hoopla made about an illicit liaison Jacob Zuma had with a HIV positive woman. It was alleged that he raped her and didn’t use a saddlecloth in the process. It was then reported that the woman was a family friend of Zuma and that Zuma had a cold shower after the pumping session to get rid of the HIV.

The rape charge was laid and in the lead up to the lections, Malema came out and said that the woman was not raped and that she enjoyed her time with Zuma. GREAT COMMENT!!!!!!!!!!! So in court his advocate told the judge that Malema’s comments were misconstrued and taken out of context. LIKE BLADDY HELL THEY WERE! I suppose the kill for Zuma comments and the comments about Naledi Pandor and her fake accent were taken out of context to.

He’s a prime candidate for Loon of the year.

When you watch Formula 1 racing you’d associate it with class and finesse , especially since the races take place in locations such as Monaco. But one look at the administration of the sport and you will change your mind. Last year, reports leaked out that geriatric FIA CEO Max Mosley was seen having a pumping session in an upmarket London Hotel with sharmoot’s dressed up as Nazi’s. He denied the reports, but when tabloid newspaper News of the World produced photographic evidence supporting the fact, he resigned.

A year on from this and the sport was just recovering from the incident when current CEO Bernie Ecclestone praised Adolf Hitler in the media for his ability to ‘get things done’ again…. Ecclestone now claims that his comments were taken out of context.

The final act of lunacy for today comes from the world of Rugby League where a player from the highly respected Sydney Roosters decided to have a dump in the corridor of a hotel because he couldn’t get to the shush in time.

You’d think that an isolated incident. NAY NAY. Read the below stories from the world of Rugby League in Australia.

The Roosters have been prime offenders with two players charged over a bar scuffle which left a woman's face bruised and even coach Brad Fittler fined 10,000 Australian dollars for being found drunk and half-naked at a team hotel. In June, former Test player Greg Bird was jailed for at least eight months for smashing a glass into his girlfriend's face, leaving her with a fractured eye socket and a cut eye, just weeks earlier, the sport was rocked by a documentary detailing a group sex incident involving one of its legends, Matthew Johns, who lost his job as a TV pundit afterwards. Officials are also in the firing line, with Cronnulla Sharks CEO Tony Zappia stood down for showing a female employee, whom he had accidentally punched, a pornographic email and asking whether she wanted to spank him.

The incidents have prompted a crisis of confidence among players, with 60 percent telling a recent survey they were embarrassed to be part of what is widely regarded as the world's most competitive rugby league.