One Wasted Referee

Russian television viewers were treated this week to some odd footage of a soccer referee getting red carded.

Sergei Shmolik started acting strangely in the second half of a youth match in Minsk, Belarus, and had to be escorted off the field.

Very slowly.

He told officials afterward that he was suffering from back pain. Blood-alcohol tests showed that he must have been treating his condition with straight vodka, because Shmolik was apparently shnookered.

Strangely, the crowd doesn't seem fazed at all.