Darwin Award Nominee
For some reason I can't find a link to any publicly available version of this Bloomberg story, so you'll have to trust that it's genuine.
How great is it that Vesti has stats on the last time this happened? That says a lot to me about Russian expectations for this sort of behavior. Makes these guys look like amateurs.
Lenin Statue Kills Drunk Belarusian
2009-08-11 12:00:59.590 GMT By Paul Abelsky
Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- A drunk Belarusian man died when a five-meter (16-foot) statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin broke while he was swinging on its arm.The man, 21, died on the way to the hospital after injuring his head during the fall and subsequent toppling of the statue on top of him, the Belarusian state news service Belta said on its Web site today.
The statue was erected in 1939 in the town of Uvarovichi, near Belarus’s borders with Russia and Ukraine. A Russian man died after a similar accident in 2003, Russian state broadcaster Vesti said.
How great is it that Vesti has stats on the last time this happened? That says a lot to me about Russian expectations for this sort of behavior. Makes these guys look like amateurs.
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Actually, I think that's more a comment on communism. Without an upper class insisting that statues of themselves and their heroes be made of good materials, well... you see what happens. Never heard of a Bostonian killed by bronze Revere or a Brit killed by a copper Churchill now have you? See...
maybe its all about size...I'm thinking our statues are more life sized...so only dwarves (is that how you spell it? it took a while to sound that out and I'm getting a red line...sigh) and midgets could be swinging from the arms and causing severe injuries to themselves...notice its mostly statues of men...always with the size issue...snicker
i will pay good movie for tickets to a live show featuring midgets swinging from the arms of oversize statues.
extra cash if monkeys sell concessions at the show.
Count me in if the monkey's have to wear a fez.
Whoa... hold up there. If Daniel and Bubba are at a midget/monkey show where am I? Oh yeah, looney bin. Thanks for that.
First it was hobos. Now midgets and monkeys. You should give a girl a break sometimes. And just for curiosity's sake, is someone in the mix named Arun?
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