Testing the Limits of Stupidity in Brazil

I challenge everyone to find their nearest 5 year old and ask this question: what happens when you shower fireworks with a blanket of thousands of little tiny bits of paper? They’ll probably answer “fire”, and they would be completely correct.

Unfortunately for Corinthians, 5 year olds weren’t running the Paulista championship celebration this weekend.

Someone decided that it would be okay to add sparklers to the basket/podium which was to be raised in the air with the trophy and then shoot out confetti.

Paper + fire = bigger fire.

And that’s precisely what happens to William and the Corinthians suits as they’re lofting the trophy for the supporters to see. Luckily it does look a great deal worse than it was – William appears to be completely engulfed by flames but he’s reportedly alright – but it never should’ve happened. And definitely wouldn’t have if they had someone running things with an IQ higher than π.

And it’s a shame, because this is big for Corinthians – really big. It’s largely a secondary tournament but after being being embarrassingly relegated just 18 months ago, any trophy is a big trophy. (Particularly that Ronaldo guy.) And that’s probably why they don’t stop celebrating despite the fact that their teammate and club president just went up in flames.

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