Tuesday, June 22, 2010

FIFA Detains 36 Female Holland Fans For Wearing Tiny Orange Dresses

36 Dutch female fans cheering on Holland, were detained in South Africa because they were all wearing the same orange dress bought at the Bavaria brewing company, a Dutch brewery. Both FIFA and South Africa has laws against "ambush marketing" or what is commonly known as "guerilla marketing."

One of the women, Barbara Kastein, told the newspaper: "We were sitting near the front, making a lot of noise, and the cameras kept focusing on us. We were singing songs and having a good time. But in the second half, about 40 stewards surrounded us and forced us to leave the stadium. They pushed us up the stairs, and one of the girls fell."



The women were questioned by Fifa, and then by the police. "The police came and kept on asking us the same questions over and over, asking if we worked for Bavaria. They said we were ambush-marketing and it was against the law in South Africa. They said we would be arrested and would stay in jail for six months. Girls were crying. It was bad."

Scary!



The Dutch brewing company says: "We launched the orange item on 30 April on the queen's birthday. The Dutch people are a little crazy about orange and we wear it on public holidays and events like the World Cup. There is no branding on the dresses. And Fifa don't have a monopoly over orange."

True.

But I have to ask, how do 36 young women all afford tickets to the World Cup? Was it some sort of World Cup hen party? Hey let's all 36 of us best friends go to South Africa for a "girls trip?"

Suspicious.

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