Monday, June 12, 2006

Rugby or brawl ?

Russians playing a game of amateur rugby have been arrested by police who mistook the match for a mass brawl, local media reported.

"We got a call to our control room saying there was a fight involving a lot of people on some waste ground just outside town," RIA news agency quoted a police official in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don as saying.

The players and supporters - nearly 100 people in total - were taken to the local police station.

They were released without charge when officers realised they had been playing rugby, the news agency reported.

2 comments:

yellowdoggranny said...

now that is funny...we were having a rugby game and a fight broke out...
or was it we were having a rugby game and a fight broke out...

dom said...

It is sometimes hard to tell when watching rugger