Balotelli sets own house on fire!?

[Colorado Gull]

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/22102011/ ... ework.html

This guy is a complete t**t! He was with a few mates setting off fireworks, out of his bathroom window at 1am on Saturday!? What an idiot, the day before his team is playing in the biggest Manchester derby in history, he's messing around like a stupid teenager with fireworks!

Thoughts?

[ferrarilover]

Poor Mario, it's really not his fault.

Natural selection dictates that, in any species other than ours, a specimen as severely genetically recessive as Ballotelli would have died in the womb (or egg). Sadly, because of our superior intellect, we have managed to take someone who, in almost any other country on earth, would be digging through bins for scraps of food, such is his intellectual level, and given him more money than the Pharaohs for doing absolutely nothing. This means that, suddenly, a man with the intelligence of a plate of dead grasshoppers covered in treacle, has access to things which ought best be reserved for those who can at least write their own name unaided. So, he is trusted with a mortgage, children (eventually), a passport, and, most worryingly of all, a driving license. Imagine, if you will, the abject horror of looking across from the drivers seat, while on the motorway doing 70mph (or there abouts ) and sitting in his gauche, £1,000,000 Ferrari is Mario Ballotelli, a man so stupid that he managed to set on fire HIS OWN HOME. Here you are, at his total mercy, knowing that he is 18 inches from you, in 2 tonnes of lethal metal and carbon fibre, at 70 mph. You are trusting him not to become distracted by something shiny (his newest diamond encrusted Louis Vuitton manbag, perhaps), or to be so consumed by joining in with his new Peppa Pig singalong CD, that his brain which can be so easily overstretched by having to restrain himself from setting on fire HIS OWN HOME, switches off completely and he causes a massive, fatal pile up.
There really does need to be an elementary IQ test administered by the state at various points through one's life. When one applies for a driving license, or for permission to reproduce (one of my, when I'm King, or PM, or both, ideas), a test is administered to ensure that the applicant is of suitable mental capacity to be trusted to properly care for those around him. Cars incorrectly handled can and do kill people, it is deeply distressing that a man stupid enough to set on fire HIS OWN HOME (getting the message about how dumb this guy really is yet?) is allowed on the same roads, at the same time, doubtlessly in a car miles beyond his ability, as the rest of us.

So, in short, my thoughts are that Hitler might have been on to something when he suggested that the mentally handicapped ought best be put down for the good of society. I suggest that the test should be one of previous character. If you have an illness or are simply not massively bright, that's fine, but if you set fire to YOUR OWN HOME, then its off for a Zyklon B shower.

Matt.

[happytorq]

I love Mario Balotelli. He's way more interesting that anybody else in the game.

Heard a story this morning that he was driving around Manchester this morning in a convertible car, stopping to hi-five any Man City fans he sees. I fervently hope that this is true.

[Plymouth Gull]

You either love him or hate him. I love him. As Chris says, he's totally different to everyone else within the game.

[Dave]

Have to be honest here, i love the guy, the game is so, so short of genuine charactor's and Balotelli is utlerly mad, on and off the pitch.

I enjoy watching him, you just dont know what he is going to do, 1 minute scores a match winner from nothing, next he is being sent off for something stupid, yep he is well worth a watch in my book.

[Regiment]

you know what, i'm definitely warming to the guy. when he first arrived here, he appeared to have such a bad attitude, i couldn't stand him. young man, world at his feet, earning more money than he could possibly spend, he just seemed so undeserving of the opportunities he had been given.

but i'm really starting to like him. everything i've read/seen about him in more recent weeks, just makes me smile, and he's a breath of fresh air to a degree. he's had some bad press, and there's no smoke without fire (and that's not meant as a pun following his firework incident), but provided he's "behaving" himself, i'll continue to watch with interest. i see him becoming modern football's answer to Chris Eubank, and he was one of my favourite sports personalities ever. met him in london once, while he was parking his juggernaught cab - he was as mad as a bag of monkeys, and i imagine Super Mario is just the same. good luck to him.