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A 36-year-old Romanian man who spent two years in prison for stealing his friend's lottery ticket has won one of the country's largest jackpots - one billion lei, or $34,000. "This time, I wrote my name and address on the ticket to avoid any misunderstandings," Stelian Ogitsa was quoted as saying. (Fakty)
Andrey, from Kharkiv, loved jigsaw puzzles so much that he organized a prostitution ring among jobless coeds in order to finance a puzzle tournament in his home town - at least that's what he told regional police investigator Stanislav Pavlenko. The clients were all foreigners, and the girls were from out of town. Andrey printed up business cards and charged $100
"a session," only half of which went to the girls. (Fakty)
Firemen in Donetsk would have responded more quickly to
a blaze at a church used by Evangelical Christians had the police who reported it not first taken it for a firework display, a regional Emergencies Ministry official told journalists. The one-story edifice, built in the 19th century, had a slate roof, which produced sparks in the night sky that could be seen from afar. The watchman on duty said he tried to tip off firefighters too, but the line was busy. (Segodnya)
Two conscripts in Simferopol were already living on the wild side when they went AWOL one November night. Being drunk didn't help matters much either. But they may have been pushing their luck when they tried to hot wire a car parked near the headquarters of the Crimean traffic police. (Segodnya)
When the stewardess on the Tu-204 tried to stop the drunken 40-year-old from pestering the other passengers, he dropped kicked her. Yuriy G, a Russian who worked as a bricklayer in Hannover, had downed two bottles of vodka by the time the plane had entered Siberian airspace. By the time it had landed, the crew had managed to tie him up with electrical tape. The men of Siberian airlines also saw fit to gag the bilingual boozer, after he started threatening to blow the aircraft up.
Sergey Kalayda's mother sent him to the market to buy a winter hat. Instead he brought home an explosive device and attached it to the batteries of his alarm clock. "You know, it's as if someone was directing me, telling how to do it," he said later. The resulting blast demolished his bedroom and all but took off the 14-year-old's hand. Nevertheless, he managed to make a tourniquet from his sweater and even tended to his mother after she fainted at the hospital.
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More in the section:
Yesterday
The Water Cooler
Read also previous issue' articles:
Bumper Stickers
Things Found Only in America
Devil in the Church
Generosity Begins at Home
Murphy's Other Laws
Some Interesting Facts
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