General News Got a Light? Olympic Torch Relay Seems Cursed to the Ends of the Earth

HuskyPup · Dec 18, 2013

I found this very humorous, and in many ways, symbolic:

Olympic torch goes out as many as 4 dozen times during Russian relay

Aldrick · Dec 18, 2013

Here is how my brain is filtering the Russian spin...

For example, despite numerous reports and video evidence suggesting that the flame has died out perhaps as many as four dozen times, eight in the first six days of the relay, the official line is that it has stopped burning only something like three times so far, Mr. Osin said. And only once, he stressed in an interview, had it been relit by someone’s lighter.

“It was just a gust of wind,” he said of the incident, which took place in the Kremlin grounds, on the second leg of the 14,000-leg relay. “The torchbearer who was running was absolutely terrified and didn’t know what to do, and he asked the guard to help him, and the guard” — here he paused — “helped, with the only device he had.”

It is unclear what happened to the guard.
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Putin had him disappeared. The body of the guard and his entire family will eventually be discovered after the games have ended. It will be ruled a suicide.

By the same token, Mr. Osin said, the flame had set people on fire only on three occasions, and never in a hazardous way. “It’s not dangerous,” Mr. Osin said. “It didn’t even damage the garments of the torchbearers.”
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Technically true. Here is an artistic interpretation of what likely happened:

Hexagon · Dec 18, 2013

Finally. The universe has validated our existence.

Ruthven · Dec 18, 2013

I just have to say those camels are so FLUFFY, I love them. :love:

Grimm · Dec 18, 2013

I'm not one to jump on superstition, but holy hell this stuff is like karma of the most hilarious type.

GivePeaceAChanc · Dec 19, 2013

you just made my day (!)

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