Daily Mail Headline Of The Decade: French Mayor Killed By Boule
THE Daily Wail. Each days the Dail Mail searches, scouring medical reports and research notes for news, and finally its quests bears dividends:
Lourdes tourism chief killed during a ‘tense’ game of petanque after being hit on the head by metal boule
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France has been stunned by the death of a player during a village game of boules.
Franck Hourcade, 39, was bending to examine the jack - the small ball that is the game’s target - when another player threw his heavy steel ball towards it.
Ex-pats in Fracne, take care…
Boules players can be seen in almost every French village, town and city park every day of the week.
No-one is safe, not really…
Posted: 13th, August 2008 | In: Strange But True, Tabloids Comments (10) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 15th, 2008 at 11:33 am
ah, but what about the stress factor…??
August 14th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I find that if you stay out of the MM threads, it’s generally a hoot…!
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M&A
Artemis
Sadly, that is not an option for the M&A.
It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
And, after all, it’s an indoor job with no heavy lifting.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
terriboule tragedy….
M&A
Artemis
Thank you. Just about the first laugh I’ve had today.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Those boules do look suspiciously like the ball used in the film ‘rollerball’.
Maybe the French should mandate the use of spiked gloves.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:30 am
I don’t think any ‘game’ is safe from hooliganism and violence nowadays. Well, bridge maybe?
I know Mahjong has caused a few deaths.
August 14th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Quite a nasty game it seems……
……….There has recently been a a worrying rise in ‘le bouliganisme’, when players have come to blows over a game.
Last year - the centenary of the sport - the authorities in south and central France were forced to clamp down on physical and verbal abuse said to be caused by prize money, alcohol and a rise in uncivil behaviour in France.
Club games were briefly banned in the Nièvre region in east-central France after a series of brawls involving players and fans.
This led le Midi Libre, a leading Mediterranean region newspaper, to pronounce pétanque ‘no longer a convivial sport’.
The French Pétanque Federation has advised players to drink in moderation.
Taken I think from the same Mail article.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:49 am
How ironic that it was Lourdes! Did his deputy Tourism Officer not know how to get to the healing sanctuary? Just in case they could have raised him back to life again?
August 13th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Good job its not that popular here, it would be banned immediately and forever.
Strange that he is from Lourdes and still died…. Maybe someone didn’t like him and had a few words at the grotto. Yay, tis a miracle.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Ban the Boule!
August 13th, 2008 at 11:12 am
we have a set - might get them out and lob things at local hooligans