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Brickbat: Ticket Please

Charles Oliver | 9.18.2014 6:00 AM

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Ghoncheh Ghavami has spent more than two months in an Iranian jail after being arrested for trying to enter a stadium to watch a men's volleyball match. Iran bars women from watching men's sporting events.

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  1. mr lizard   11 years ago

    There are no free shows in Iran

  2. Lady Bertrum   11 years ago

    In her defense, volleyball isn’t a real sport, so, yeah.

    1. Swiss Servator, Grundgesetz!   11 years ago

      *narrows gaze*

    2. WTF   11 years ago

      They got tired of her constantly asking “is that a homerun?”

      TIWTANLW

      1. Almanian!   11 years ago

        +1 offsides? is that offsides?

    3. LarryA   11 years ago

      You’ve never seen volleyball played with AK-74s.

  3. Crackers Boy   11 years ago

    Religion of peace. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.

    CB

  4. Fist of Etiquette   11 years ago

    The death penalty for watching Top Gun.

    1. Almanian!   11 years ago

      *high fives Fist as we pass, our oiled-up, tan bodies glistening in the sun*

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder   11 years ago

        +1 Danger Zone

    2. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

      What the heck is the penalty of ‘Dirty Dancing’ and ‘Flashdance’?

      1. Raven Nation   11 years ago

        Well, they are both crimes against humanity so how about drawn & quartered using elephants?

        1. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

          I’m down with that.

          They had it coming after all.

        2. Scruffy Nerfherder   11 years ago

          You maniac

      2. Rufus J. Firefly   11 years ago

        for

    3. Hillary's Clitdong   11 years ago

      The boats for watching a men’s wrestling match.

    4. Copernicus   11 years ago

      They’re really doing her a favor. The winning team gets to sodomize the losers and nobody wants to see that… except for a bunch of Iranian men (NTTAWWT)

  5. Lord Humungus   11 years ago

    She can come over to my house and watch whatever she wants.

  6. Will4Freedom   11 years ago

    That’s okay. The Left will be all up Iran’s face any minute now. They’re all for woman’s rights, ya know.

    [cue Code Pink riot…. Now! crickit. cricket.]

  7. Almanian!   11 years ago

    Bitch shoulda followed the law. If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide. Absent that — ANARCHY.

    /Tulip LOAL

    1. Hillary's Clitdong   11 years ago

      DEE LAW IS DEE LAW. RIGIDLY ENFORCED ARBITRARY REGULATIONS ARE THE ONLY THING PREVENTING US FROM INSTANTLY TURNING INTO A BAND OF ANARCHISTIC RUFFIANS.

      1. Copernicus   11 years ago

        Freedom is respect for authority.

  8. Hillary's Clitdong   11 years ago

    Something something Persian women.

  9. jmomls   11 years ago

    Hey, I would care about these poor lasses, but that would make some sort of anti-isolationist chickenhawk with a war boner, sooooo, oh well.

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