Per the BBC:
There were angry clashes at funeral of the 35-year-old on Friday in his home town of Haffouz [Tunisia], local media reported.
Issaoui had been accused of terrorism by police officers after he complained that he was unable to buy bananas for less than 10 dinars ($3.30; £2.66) a kilogram, double the price set by the government, reports say.
In a Facebook post, the footballer had written: “For a dispute with someone selling bananas at 10 dinars, I get accused of terrorism at the police station. Terrorism for a complaint about bananas… I have no more energy. Let the police state know that the sentence will be executed today.”
In protest, Issaoui burned himself to death.
If Bud Light goes up any higher I might have to switch to Guinness..it’s just a higher octane but worth the extra clams.
1: This is more evidence that price caps don’t work.
2: The estimated rate of private gun ownership (both licit and illicit) per 100 people in Tunisia is 1.09. This is why people have to resort to gruesome methods of suicide such as self-immolation than humanely shooting grocers.
Wife on voice mail: “Honey, did you get the bananas? I want you to pick up some Big Macs, too.”
How much does your government suck that you so afraid of them, you will set yourself on FIRE to avoid interaction with the police…
Pretty bad here. I don’t know about where you live.
Even at 20 dinars, no reason to go out and make an ash of yourself…
“Honey, pick up some bananas, if you think of it. Oh, and I have a coupon for half off, so don’t go igniting yourself, OK?”
Yes, we have no bananas. We have no bananas today.
Yes, we are so bananas. We are so bananas today.
Maybe he was collecting the highly flammable potassium from bananas for nefarious reasons and got caught. (Just trying out some lefty logic.)