Midget Wrestlers Murdered by Fake Hookers

Jeremy

"Two professional midget wrestlers have been found dead in a low-rent hotel room in Mexico City."

That first sentence is very nearly perfect, isn't it?

I also love the expression "...entertaining two prostitutes..." What does "entertaining" two prostitutes constitute, I wonder? How does one "entertain" two prostitutes? To what - or with what - does one "entertain" them?

"Police beileve the women gave the pair, both 35, a fatal drugs overdose before fleeing with their belongings."

At this point, that sounds almost par for the course...^^

"Police are interviewing two suspects but believe the wrestlers were dosed with a lethal combination of alcohol and eye drops."

A lethal combination of alchohol and eye drops! Whatever - one wonders - is that? Do you squeeze the substance in the eye drops into the alchohol? Or do you take the alchohol orally and then have whatever substance is contained in the eye drops squeezed into your eyes? How very exotic! I've certainly never tried that one before...Is this a popular form of recreational drug-taking in Mexico? As John Junor used to say: I think we should be told.

And the source of the story? Well I never! It's The Daily Mail...^^

Verity

They are funny because they are Mexican. Is that it? If they were British dwarves, or Aussie Abo dwarves, or, God forbid, Pakistani dwarves, or African dwarves, this wouldn't have been written up as light entertainment, would it?

It appears that two people were murdered.

Kevyn Bodman

Verity,
Thank you for that comment.

This is not an amusing story.

James Hodson

Kevyn,

I believe Verity questioned the reason behind the thrust of the article: "this has the potential to be the story of the year" and "this is the sort of caper newspapers were invented for".

I think you've fallen into the trap of thinking every statement that mentions race must necessarily be racialist.

Along these lines, reading one chapter of Peter Hitchens' The Broken Compass may be useful.

Jeff

"The sort of caper newspapers were invented for". Really?

I think your amusement at this story is in poor taste I'm afraid Alex, not that we all don't have the same errors of judgement from time to time.

If this same sad tale had happened in the UK I doubt you'd be claiming it was potentially "the story of the year".

Lee Jakeman

"I hope everyone is sending their best guys to Mexico in what should be a mad scramble to get the full story."

Called VULTURES aren't they?

Alex Massie

Verity/Kevyn/Jeff/Lee:

Gosh, I didn't mean to offend anyone, nor even to make light of what is doubtless a grim time for these tiny wrestlers' families and, for that matter, fans.

But I'm afraid that there *is* something intrinsically funny about midget wrestlers. Add fake hookers and death by eye drops to the mixture and you have a tabloid story for the ages.

I thought my post was pretty clearly somewhat tongue-in-cheek but perhaps that didn't come across in the way I would have hoped. Still, calling for Wenlock Jakes - a character from "Scoop" after all - to cover the story might have been thought a hint...

Newspapers have always reveled in tales of the grotesque. This is no exception.

James Hodson

Damn, Alex,

Does that mean I actually have a point for a change?

Scary stuff.

Robert Odom

Without doubt, the authorities will discover that the alcohol and eye drops were smuggled in from the US, so we need an alcohol/eye drops ban in the US to protect Mexican midgets.