Topic: Stupidity
Okay, if any story could bring this site out of semi-retirement, it's this one. After an angry fan posed to Cambodian Midget Fighting League President Yang Sihamoni that his entire league could be beaten by one lion, President Yang gladly accepted, attempting to prove the fan wrong.
Next up in the dwarf fighters' repertoire? Death and mutilation. While thousands of fans (probably all cheering the damn lion - ed.) stood by, cheering loudly for 12 minutes, 28 of the 42 member league met their fate in the cage match, which was co-sponsored by the Cambodian government (seriously, we're moving to Cambodia, because that government knows entertainment). The other 14 wound up brutally wounded, including mutliple lost limbs.
The funniest part was that the no-holds-bar fight was allowed, as long as the Cambodian government got 50 percent of the sale of each ticket, and that before the fight, President Yang was quoted as saying his team “… could out-wit and out-muscle [it].” Uh huh.
And the fate of the lion who was specially shipped from Africa to Cambodia for the fight? He's back in Africa. I mean, after devouring the majority of 28 midgets, he's gonna need, like, a really loooooong nap.
UPDATE: We've been had! Instead of usually pulling our heads out of our collective asses and doing some research (rare, we know), we were so excited about this story that we actually didn't even read any of the Snopes information or anything else. And now we feel stupid. But this would be an awesome thing to see. God how we wish it were true...
