Bad Luck
These guys weren’t so lucky while participating in a rally event. Somehow their car managed to turn over in the very middle of the contest. But eventually they fixed it up and continued their race with just a few bruises and a good deal of adrenalin left. BTW, the camera man was not a bad one and caught several saucy moments.
A Terrifying Smash-up
A dreadful thing happened last week. One of the fastest express trains of the whole Russia, Nevsky Express, which was going from Moscow to Saint-Petersburg and having more than 600 passengers on its board was blew up. At 9:34 pm, when train was going somewhere near Aleshinka – Uglovka towns, 7 kilos of TNT which were buried under the tracks detonated and as a result of which the train was derailed.
Open-up in the ground
The place of this accident is unknown as well as its causes. The only thing is known is that the ground somewhere in Russia had opened up. Somehow it reminds me of Maya’s prophecy… 2012? Who knows… Well, at least there are no casualties apart from a pair of cars.
$250,000 Worth of Vodka
It’s no surprise that somewhere in Russia there are huge warehouses
fully stacked with vodka and whiskey crates. It’s normal for many other
countries too.
And here you can see how $250,000 worth of vodka getting ruined in
two seconds time. Luckily there were no casualties at all, just a few punches
on one guy’s leg.
Casino Flight
As we mentioned before sometime ago all casinos were banned in Russia except some special zones located far from civilization and no actual casinos were yet built there.
People doubted about those special zones rationality cause its much easier to take a flight to some nearby country than to this zone.
So apparently such flights appeared and on of the shortest routes were to Belarus - just an hour flight from Moscow. One of such flights which took a group of vip players to the grand opening of new casino crashed right near the Minsk airport few hundred meters away from destination point.
Bus Going Down
Crazy story happened in the Russian city of Perm a few days ago: a city bus lost control of its brakes at the top of a hill and careened down a busy street smashing cars, kiosks and generally wreaking a path of destruction.
Fortunately (for us) a street camera caught some of it on tape. Check out the video to see what happens when bus meets pedestrian. Does he live?? Watch and see.
Pripyat, Black and White
Here is a darkly beautiful set of photographs taken in Chernobyl, Ukraine, the sight of the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history.
As these relics have barely been touched in the 23 years since the accident, they provide a rare glimpse of original USSR architecture and artifacts.
Dude, Where is my Foam?
Looks like we are having “Dude, Where is my …” day. Well, a leak in a storage freight one day left some Russian firefighters near Moscow wondering just where their foam went. They didn’t have to look far though: it had escaped to the river! Run free, foam, run free.
9/11 in Soviet Russia
Seems that in Soviet Russia they had also an accident based on the actions that caued 9/11 tragedy.
Though in Russia it happened thirty-three years ago, in 1976.
Not much of Russian people know about that accident, it was not in Moscow or Saint-Petersburg but in rather small city of Novosibirsk, known as “Science City” - the place where a lot of Russia research centers were based in Soviet times. Even these days this city is said to be the leader in Russian offhore programming companies - tens millions dollars of offhore programing orders come there from all of the Western world.
So, back to what has happened in late seventies there. Actually it was the same scenario when man took the plane and crashed into the multistored building on purpose, with evil plans of kill and destruction in his mind.
Of course, the reasons and the scale of the accident was less smaller than twenty five years later in New York city. The thing that inclined him to this was pretty known to most of you married folks - he wanted to kill his mother in law.
It’s hard to understand now, how such way of revenge to his wife’s mother could come into his head in Russia, where no private aircrafts were owned neither companies could own any. As has been said he was a “bright comrade of Young Communist party, having access to training planes of Soviet Youth Sport Organization”. So one day he turned from a bright comrade to an evil pilot.
It’s hard to believe but he found this house correctly among the hundreds of same looking ones of the Soviet typical construction plans building whole cities of blocks of tens same looking houses. He found the correct one and then he pointed it perfectly into the flat where his wife’s parents lived.
As a result - there were twelve dead and… there was not the mother-in-law among them. She was simply out of the flat that time. They didn’t have cell phones at that times, he couldn’t call from his plane to check if he is coming right time. And of course the mister pilot was dead too.
The Station Panic
Remember that blast on Russian hydro power station? We had it here and here.
Now there are surveylance cams video footage has been released, that’s where real
panic is.
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