TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (56)

This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Deadspin blog (from Thursday, March 16; link good at time of posting):

In England . . . the controversy over soccer mascot Donny the Dog is only now beginning to subside. In a tense standoff last week, the costumed dog — the mascot for the Doncaster Rovers — was barred from coming within 50 meters of the Galpharm Stadium in West Yorkshire due to unspecified "police intelligence." Terrorism? Rabies? Authorities wouldn’t say.

Andy Liney, 58, a Rovers supporter for 46 years and a club director, is the man who has played Donny the Dog for the past five years. He offered to take off head and sit in the stands with fellow fans, but the police would not allow him in while wearing any of the costume. And so Liney had to go home. Why? Because he had no other clothes. That’s right — he showed up wearing the dog costume and nothing else. According to the team’s web site, Donny Dog was "too distressed to discuss the incident."

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