A 44-year-old worker on a temporary contract has lost his job at Haarlem railway company Nedtrain for cutting a colleague’s vuvuzela in half, the Haarlems Dagblad reports on Friday.



‘At one point someone was blowing on three of them at the same time,’ Nels van Toor told the paper. ‘The further the Dutch progresses, the worse it gets.’

The climax came on Wednesday when his workmates attached a vuvuzela to a compressed air pump. ‘It made the most unbelievable noise. It is vuvuzela terror,’ he said.

Van Toor then sawed the offending instrument in two, but was ordered to report to the boss and sacked on the spot. No-one from Nedtrain was available to comment, the paper said.

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