In Soviet Russia, Party Finds You! (1377 hits)
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Submitted by Adam™ (View user info) at 2008-02-26 11:17:57 EST
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080226/od_nm/ice_dc;_ylt=AmAlMqfb2xN8HSytYRlxVQASH9EA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six people have been killed in three days by icicles falling from buildings in a central Russian region, ITAR-TASS news agency reported Tuesday.
Plummeting chunks of ice is an annual hazard for pedestrians in Russia during the spring when the sun finally melts thick layers of ice and snow which build up on roofs over months of freezing temperatures and darkness.
Medical authorities in the region of Samara told ITAR-TASS that five people died in the city of Samara and another person died in the nearby town of Otradny between February 23 and February 25.
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Man, what a fucked up way to go. Sure at first glance you might think it's all like Final Destination and shit; a huge icicle of death falls 50 stories and impales you from the top of your dome to your taint, nailing you to the ground as you make some joke about vanilla ice.
The reality is that it's a sucky way to bite it, cause you know that a giant icicle falling and impaling you doesn't kill you. No it just fucks you up, and if that weren't bad enough, you're in Russia. You're in a land that encourages heavy drinking and pet dancing bear ownership. You're stumbling around in 12 feet of snow bleeding profusely and asking for help in a nation that believes "winning" is losing 9 million men while killing around 2 in a war, who thinks total economic collapse from unsustainable military buildup and the succession of large swaths of territory was just a growing pain.
Enough gibberish....
Cue awesome picture.
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Submitted by Val (user info) at 2008-06-25 20:51:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you got married?
and another dream collapses.
Submitted by cuberat (user info) at 2008-02-27 11:04:51 EST (#)
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Submitted by Quint (user info) at 2008-02-27 08:54:27 EST (#)
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Love the Communist parties. They pretend to have enough beer for everyone and everyone pretends to have a good time.
Submitted by Quint (user info) at 2008-02-27 08:54:27 EST (#)
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Love the Communist parties. They pretend to have enough beer for everyone and everyone pretends to have a good time.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2008-02-27 01:59:05 EST (#)
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YEAH, I POSTED THIS PIC 2 YEARS AGO
Submitted by Fartman (user info) at 2008-02-26 23:57:51 EST (#)
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Old pic but +2 for Adam sighting.
Where the Hell have you been, young man? Too busy being married to a beautiful woman and making a shitload of money to roll around in the Ubersewer, I'll bet. Well, you've got a lot of nerve to just walk in here and expect to be welcomed with open arms, you puke. Now get busy and post something amusing and entertaining like you always did. Or, if this is someone else using your name:
Never mind.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2008-02-26 23:49:38 EST (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-02-26 16:35:54 EST (#)
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i have one of those red cups
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...I used to. Were you digging through my trash?
Submitted by SPECIALk (user info) at 2008-02-26 18:45:13 EST (#)
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http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/84090/detail/
Submitted by whiskey_jack (user info) at 2008-02-26 18:28:39 EST (#)
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Something similiar happened to me, but I only had to get five stitches on my scalp
Submitted by MichaelJackson (user info) at 2008-02-26 17:24:55 EST (#)
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I have Stalin's skeleton in my basement
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-26 16:45:32 EST (#)
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I have bronchitis.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-02-26 16:35:54 EST (#)
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i have one of those red cups
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-02-26 16:18:34 EST (#)
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I have that hat.
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2008-02-26 15:46:43 EST (#)
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I have that shirt
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2008-02-26 14:27:04 EST (#)
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pic
Submitted by Rhymenocerous (user info) at 2008-02-26 13:43:51 EST (#)
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I saw this happen in Boston once on the corner of Newbury Street and Mass. Ave. The Virgin Records store (now a BestLie) has these angled slates jetting out from the side of the building about 30 feet up. A guy was standing underneath it, waiting for a bus. All of a sudden, a giant chunk of ice breaks and slides off the side of the building and fell near the guy. It hit his shoulder and knocked him to the ground. If he had been standing like, a foot to the right it would have hit him right on top of his head and probably broken his neck.
Falling Ice. Shit sucks.
Submitted by Fungah (user info) at 2008-02-26 13:26:09 EST (#)
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That picture is BOSH.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2008-02-26 13:22:40 EST (#)
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+1 because I actually own that image on a shirt
+1 Russia
Submitted by Hookhand (user info) at 2008-02-26 12:35:57 EST (#)
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Filename
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2008-02-26 12:26:17 EST (#)
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Only because that pic is my screen saver, my co-workers at my govt office love it.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2008-02-26 12:20:16 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Ltap (user info) at 2008-02-26 12:15:01 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-02-26 12:11:16 EST (#)
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I waited 6 months and when you return, you give us a cut & paste of an Reuters news story????
You fucking suck.
Get back to work on one of those USA Today posts that you used to do.
THIS WAS WEAK.
Submitted by SkullBiter (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:58:11 EST (#)
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That picture.
Submitted by Nellypaal (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:46:04 EST (#)
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I'd like to party with Marx.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:40:33 EST (#)
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the buildings in my neighborhood (http://www.cmaq.net/files/20747.jpg) are all three stories old houses close to one another with pretty unsafe roofs.
i wanted to take pictures of the large chunks of ice bulging from the roof and the 5 feet long icicles but the city cleaned them up last night because of the hazard.
it's snowing again today...4 meters and counting this year! :°(
stalin ftw! http://www2.ubersite.com/m/86624
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:39:47 EST (#)
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I hate tired Slashdot memes.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:39:32 EST (#)
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One year my dad gave me a nice air-powered pellet rifle for Christmas. Shortly after that, my mom noticed huge icicles hanging off the gutters at the back of the house, two stories up. She said I could shoot them down with my new pellet gun. I spent hours blasting away and got almost all the weight of the icicles off of the gutters. In the spring my mom and I got climb up on the roof and hang off ladders to help my dad install new gutters on the back of the house because I had thoroughly swiss-cheesed the old ones at her behest.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:39:29 EST (#)
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Lenin iz lookin' pimp, yo.
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:39:22 EST (#)
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I'm sure someone, somewhen, died while "Ice, Ice Baby" or "2 Legit 2 Quit" was playing, either in the background or in their headphones.
What a shitty way to go.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:34:47 EST (#)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfBp2QYOIbc
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:30:53 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by MichaelJackson (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:27:54 EST (#)
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Shamone, this sites google ranking just jumped up 500%
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:27:25 EST (#)
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Where did you get a picture of Chairman Meow!!!!?
Submitted by LittleMonster (user info) at 2008-02-26 11:24:44 EST (#)
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10 times more people die of being hit by falling coconuts every year than people dying of shark attacks.