Three doves were released as a symbol of peace before yesterday’s match between Brazil and Croatia kicked off the 2014 World Cup. It was a nice ceremony, but things reportedly didn’t go too well for a few of the doves.
(Bad news for world peace: two of the doves appear to have crashed into the stands)
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) June 12, 2014
Errrr, think one of those doves is dead already. Flew straight into stand and went down.
— Jonathan Wilson (@jonawils) June 12, 2014
No confirmation on the death of those poor doves, but there’s also no proof that they’re still alive. We’ll just have to hope they’re still alive because the immediate death of a couple peace doves sounds like a pretty bad omen.
As for that last dove, he flew straight to the press box to let everyone know he was okay. Way to go, surviving dove.
Exciting dove update: The one remaining dove has flown into the press box! pic.twitter.com/JA8rQC1KtK
— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) June 12, 2014
