0
The Olympic Torch Relay is making its way across Brazil right now, with the flame headed toward Rio de Janiero only three weeks before the beginning of the Summer Games. The running of the Olympic torch of course honors the ancient Greek tradition of keeping a fire burning throughout the games to commemorate Prometheus’ theft of fire from Zeus, to benefit mankind.
So of course now mankind wants to snuff it out. Last week someone tried to douse the flame by throwing a bucket of cold water on it. When that failed, on Wednesday a dude rushed the flame and tried to blast it with a fire extinguisher.