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Irish Soccer Hooligans Damage Car—Then Miraculously Repair It On the Spot

A blanket statement to our European readers: The only thing that makes us Americans feel that we’re not the only country filled with knucklehead bros is watching your soccer hooligans running amok. But now a kindly band of Irish football fans may be taking that away from us.

To catch up our American, “brown and pointy” football fans: France is currently hosting the 2016 UEFA European Championship, a monthlong football tournament that’s essentially the World Cup for Europe. Fan clashes have been nasty: For the past couple of weeks, YouTube has been awash in bystander-shot videos of vicious scrabbles between Russian, English and French supporters in Marseille. Blood has been spilled, arrests made, men taken to hospital.

But a video posted this morning of Irish fans conducting themselves shows the Emerald Isle has sent their best. When an overzealous Ireland supporter banging a drum became caught up in the spirit and climbed on top of a parked car, he damaged the roof. To compensate the unseen owner for the damage, the Irish fans started stuffing Euros into the door gap–then realized that they could repair the roof themselves by working together:

Odds of you seeing something like that happening in front of Madison Square Garden are rather low.