Greek guard killed as prank goes wrong

[rooboy]

A Greek soldier guarding an Olympic facility in Athens has been shot dead after apparently playing a game of Russian roulette with a policeman, security sources said.

Greek police were questioning a policeman in connection with the pre-dawn shooting at the gates of an Olympic village hosting escorts to Olympic teams in the Metochi Parnithas region of Athens.

It appeared that a prank had gone wrong while the pair were playing with a service revolver containing a single bullet, the sources added.

The 25-year-old soldier was shot in the forehead.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1183278.htm

[ps1074]

1. there are soooo many stupid people

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[thebigidea]

2. how is a game of Russian roulette "a prank"?

I thought it was a dangerously stupid display of machismo.

[Bucky]

9. When you play with an automatic instead of with a revolver -- HA!! Get it?

It's not a great prank, but it's cleverer than the ol' waterbucket over the door number

[pinniped]

3. I'm surprised the moran didn't use an autoloader.

n/t

[Citizen Daryl]

4. Gone wrong?

For anyone stupid enough to play Russian Roulette, seems like it went right.

[Stuckinthebush]

7. Excellent point

Stupid game for fools.

[Alpharetta]

5. Uzo

Opa!

[NNN0LHI]

8. Calling Darwin n/t

[uncle ray]

10. that last line has me "kinda" curious

shot in the forehead? playing russian roulette? i just held my hand up to my forehead like i was going to shoot myself, and i gotta say it's a hell of a lot more ergonomic to point the gun at the side of the head. my first instinct was what a dumbass, my second, i wonder what really happened? i think my tinfoil is cutting off my blood circulation.

[daleo]

13. I am with you

This doesn't add up.

[Tempest]

11. Ding, Ding, Ding... We have the 2004 Darwin Award winner

This is sad, but come on.

[Endangered Specie]

12. I didnt realize THAT was an olympic event...

Man, what games arent in the olympics

Must only be a gold medal in Russian Roullete, no one left alive to collect the Silver. :shrug:

[geek tragedy]

14. Talk about a "single elimination" tournament . . . n/t

[daleo]

15. Sudden death final. n/t

n/t