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Fake Earthquake Detected In Mexico City After Player's Goal In World Cup Match (abc7.com)

According to officials in Mexico, an artificial earthquake was reported in Mexico City that was possibly caused by "massive jumps during the goal from the Mexico national soccer team" on Sunday. KABC reports: Hirving Lozano scored the lone goal in the 35th minute, picking up Javier Hernandez's pass inside the penalty area and beating Mesut Ozil before shooting past Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer from 10 yards. The goal decided the match -- a match Germany didn't expect to lose. Mexico upset Germany, the defending champion, 1-0. The loss meant Germany became the third defending champion in the last 16 years to lose its opening match at the World Cup. "Two monitoring stations in Mexico City picked up the temblor the same time Lozano scored, 35 minutes into the match," reports USA Today. "Seismologists in Chile also said that their instruments detected an artificial temblor at the same time."

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  1. Why fly the flags of the shitholes they left? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    During the World Cup, why do so many immigrants to the US fly the flag of the shithole country that they left? I've seen numerous cars flying flags for terrible places like Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Colombia. It's fine if you legally immigrate to the US to live a better life, but please don't do something disrespectful like flying the flag of some shithole nation that you fled from!

    1. Re:Why fly the flags of the shitholes they left? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      During the World Cup, why do so many immigrants to the US fly the flag of the shithole country that they left? I've seen numerous cars flying flags for terrible places like Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, and Colombia. It's fine if you legally immigrate to the US to live a better life, but please don't do something disrespectful like flying the flag of some shithole nation that you fled from!

      Don't forget to list Confederate (civil war loser participation flag) and Nazi (WW2 loser participation flag) flags as disrespectful trashy nation flags that various Americans fly for unknown reasons!

  2. Romanticize the past by PhYrE2k2 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People idolize the past. Romanticize it. Meanwhile everyone left there because it didnâ(TM)t offer something core to them that they were willing to uproot their entire life and everyone they know. Safety. Comfort. Employment. Opportunity.

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