Jesus ejected from darts tournament

Nathan Grindal, seen here, was ejected from the stands of a major dart tournament in Butlins, UK because his resemblance to Jesus riled up the crowd. Apparently, spectators' chants of "Jesus! Jesus!" were distracting the players and disrupting the match. Security staff escorted Grindal to a local bar and bought him a beer while he watched the rest of the match on TV. "It was all very weird and distressing," Grindal told This Is Somerset. Watch video of Grindal and the crowd here.

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I… what… but…
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I think that the lessons that we can draw from this are that English law believes in punishing the victim and that they hate Jesus.
  - fuzzyfuzzyfungus
    
    I’m just surprised that they didn’t have an outbreak of dubiously-safe-for-work Big Lebowski references. Maybe that isn’t a brit thing?
    - aszure
      
      That’s just like your opinion, man.
  - TheMudshark
    
    They might even hate baby Jesus.
  - benher
    
    Isn’t this why the Puritans left for the New World?
dragonfrog

Guess I’d better stay away from darts tournaments – if anything I have even more of a WASP-Christ look than this fellow.
- welcomeabored
  
  More than Grindel, or the goat?
  - dragonfrog
    
    Both. Put together.
    - Guest
      
      Maa Saviour!
- Ipo
  
  Wouldn’t that be an awesome side job? Jesus impersonator.
  Easy money for you. =]
  - Antinous / Moderator
    
    I’ll just leave this here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLKk00OYKhU
    - Daemonworks
      
      As much as I enjoy your Jesus…
      https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=447450785309314&set=a.447449485309444.107413.406418416079218&type=3&theater
      
      (edited: same pic, different link)
    - Jonathan Roberts
      
      I love the expression on the girl with the snake around her neck. Someone must make it into a gif.
Brainspore

Those spectators know that Jesus was an Arab Jew who probably looked more like Osama Bin Laden than Brad Pitt, right?
- Glen Able
  
  The most successful rebranding exercise in history!
- http://goodsharer.com/ Aloisius
  
  Arab Jew? While there were certainly Arab Jews living on the Arabian peninsula, Jesus wasn’t one of them.
  
  Most Jews are closer genetically to Kurds, Turks and Armenians than Arabs.
  - Ipo
    
    No. No. Yes. Yes.
  - CH
    
    Actually… Jesus was a Viking. Yep, old dad himself probably imported him straight from the cold north into a more southern warm womb. It’s not like sky daddy could go rape a poor innocent girl to create some half-god-half-human hybrid, him not exactly being corporeal. Nope, straight from the north, I tell you. Haven’t you watched the paintings depicting Jesus???
    
    (Or, what is the Canon? Was a gamete from Mary used or not? Because if not, then Jesus could have been small, green, and have tentacles for all we know.)
    
    Edit: Ooh, I have even more proof Jesus was a Viking! Anybody here can walk on water! I actually did it today, several times. See??? Viking, I tell you!
    - http://goodsharer.com/ Aloisius
      
      Pfft, I was talking about you know, Jesus’ actual parents, not the fairy tale told by Luke and Matthew because they misread Isaiah and thought the hebrew word almah meant virgin instead of young woman.
      - CH
        
        That doesn’t change anything! She could have been the local matriarch of a whore house, it doesn’t matter. She had a little import growing in there! And nothing you say can change my mind!
  - Martijn
    
    Turks? Didn’t they come to the area about 100 years later from central Asia?
    
    Arabs are surely a lot closer. At least they are also semites.
    - http://goodsharer.com/ Aloisius
      
      Apparently there are some genetic mutations common to Jews and Anatolian Turks.
      
      http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1274378/?tool=pubmed
      
      There are some theories that state that Palestinians are actually Israelites who mixed a bit with Arab immigrants over the last two thousand years (Jews are much more closely related to Palestinian Arabs than Arabs from the Arabian Peninsula).
    - benher
      
      Turks? Do they know what Constantinople got the works?
- Powerphail
  
  Didn’t you know being a white guy in the middle east was Jesus’s biggest miracle?
Frank Diekman

Nobody fucks with The Jesus.
- Alexander_B
  
  Somehow, “Fuck it, let’s go play some darts” just doesn’t seem to have that ring to it…
  - niktemadur
    
    Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
    - fergus1948
      
      Best thread ever.
      - TheMudshark
        
        Shut the fuck up Donny.
      - fergus1948
        
        Mudshark, you are out of your element!
- EH
  
  I’ll throw the dart until it goes “prick, prick.”
Jack Daniel

He was ejected for your sins.
- niktemadur
  
  Incomplete. He also had a free pint, for your sins.
  - jhoosier
    
    Water into beer?
    - benher
      
      Then you’re in the clear! Water into wine…
Roose_Bolton

Let he who is without sin throw the first triple-20.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher
  
  ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!
  
  Ah, that brings back memories not only of watching darts on television but having a blast as part of a league. My team name, in fact, was “Make Mine A Triple”.
http://twitter.com/dailyrev Brian Donohue

another sport where the players can’t handle crowd noise? Let the golfers, tennisers, and darters spend some time facing a 99mph heater in a road game while a crowd of drunks yells stuff about their moms. Wimps.
Michael Polo

Guys, forgive them, they know not what they do…..
Navin_Johnson

but a fan who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jesus

Uncanny?

If that’s the case I can go to a hipster bar tonight and see about 30 “Jesus Christs”… and some that are least somewhat swarthy..
Bevatron Repairman

It is easier for a rich man to enter heaven than for me to score this Triple 17 I need.
gothicgeek

Ah British darts culture, keeping the 1970s alive!
- niktemadur
  
  Three words: Watney’s bleedin’ Red Barrel.
Ryan Lenethen

Jesus was a Ginger? I didn’t think they had soul’s…. Oh wait. Did jesus have a soul? I think I just blew my mind!
- http://memoid.tumblr.com/ memoid
  
  Soul’s what?
  - Roose_Bolton
    
    You’re in the wrong thread – the one about grammar Nazism is down the page a bit.
    - http://memoid.tumblr.com/ memoid
      
      I know… I know!
Navin_Johnson

Dennis Wilson! Dennis Wilson! Dennis Wilson!
http://memoid.tumblr.com/ memoid

I was looking forward to the comments, and BB did not disappoint!
- niktemadur
  
  It ain’t over yet, in fact it’s getting better, now that I’m here, baby! *ducks*
iamlegion

He’s not just Jesus – he’s GINGER JESUS!
- niktemadur
  
  OMG, the Ginger Messiah Of The Pub has finally arrived!
  A shrine, quick. And some hymns of glory.
noah django

pretty much everyone calls me Jesus. It doesn’t bother me. In fact, it affords me quite a psychological advantage amongst the religious types. Also, jokes. Yesterday, with a friend at work:

Kevin: Jesus! turn this water into wine
Me: [ignore]
Kevin: JESUS! [motions to water]
Me: [stare wide-eyed at him, raise fingers to temples. slowly cross eyes]
Kevin: [loud laughter] You crazy as hell.

meh, it passes the time.
Nick Gurteen

Just a small point, but Butlins is a Holiday resort, not a village. Minehead is the actual town…
MichaelDDD

5000 drunks cause a problem and the only person who gets ejected is the one who’s not doing anything wrong. Says a lot about the sport of darts, I think.
- dragonfrog
  
  You ever tried to boot 5000 drunks from a venue?
  
  (Related:
  Q: How to you get 100 rowdy Canadians out of a swimming pool?
  A: Say “Everyone please get out of the pool.”)
  - miasm
    
    Stop serving alcohol.
    - Antinous / Moderator
      
      Why on Earth would a sober person watch a game of darts?
  - noah django
    
    I’m soh-ry
    http://harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=250
- http://twitter.com/Polackio Matt Popke
  
  I was telling my girlfriend about this story earlier tonight, and how it kind of sucked that this guy got ejected when everyone else was the real problem. Her immediate response, “It’s just like what happened to Jesus.”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Turner/679875041 Joel Turner

How Bloody Stupid Are You !!!??? Jesus Wasn’t Bloody Caucasian !!!!!
- Brainspore
  
  He was pretty bloody for that last day or two, though.
- Guest
  
  And he wasn’t from the Caucasus, either. How’s that for bloody stupid.
http://twitter.com/InnerPartisan Sebastian Spinczyk

A topic about Darts, and this hasn’t been posted yet? Shame on you all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHnBppccI0o
http://www.nothinginside.net mindysan33

At least he got a free beer out of it?

I actually know a Jesus, with the arabic Variant. And coincidentally, he has shown me a better path to walk, at least academically. Not religiously though.
http://profiles.google.com/marc.k.mielke Marc Mielke

Seems like a rather nice way to eject someone from a tourney. Bar security in the US would be more likely to taze Our Lord than buy him a pint.
scotchmi_st

The fact that this was reported in ‘This is Somerset’ tells you all you need to know.
tw1515tw

Well, the Romans’ image of Jesus was as a blond, curly haired boy with a wand, so that’s not too far from darts. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y127/ziemerd/wand.jpg The bearded imagery came x hundred years later. http://www.waldemar.tv/2012/11/lighting-up-the-dark-ages/
- Navin_Johnson
  
  He looks a bit gray in that pic….maybe he needs Clyde and Keith to hook him up with some “Just for Saviors”
- CH
  
  Interesting. I’ve never really checked how the earliest depictions looked like.
  
  I think it’s supposed to be more of a rod than a wand, though. And in two of the pictures a small boy is touching his rod. Pictures from the future?
ChickieD

Was he wearing his bathrobe that day?
http://artdonovan.typepad.com Art

Everyone knows that there’s only one, true Jesus.
He’s a white guy and looks just like Barry Gibb.
J_Porter

Video is a dead link. Is there a fixed one?
Orion Salvaje

He is 33 years old, so he should be careful around crosses.

Also, now you know there is a good reason for Muslims not allowing the depiction of Muhammad.
Jason Chilcott

and it’s gone….
“”Darts fan Nathan Grindal is…” The YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement.”
- mistwolf
  
  Fox News has copyrighted Jesus.
feetleet

Pshht. Jesus tastes Italian. With very little body.