A sixteen-year-old kid in Luhansk had his counterfeiting operation shut down after some of his bogus 20-hryvnya notes turned up at the school cafeteria. Police tracked him and his 13-year-old accomplice down on a description given by one of the lunch mothers. Not only will the precocious printer be brown bagging it for the foreseeable future, but the home computer he worked from has been confiscated as well. (Segodnya).
Possibly the best thing that ever happened to six-year-old Vanya Ponomarenko, from Poltava, was when he fell into a hole two years ago. But the only cries for help that he could make at the time sounded more like those of a barking dog,
as his formative years had been spent in the care of two abusive alcoholics. Nevertheless, when help did arrive, little Vanya was taken to a hospital and then to a children's home, where they discovered that he walked on all fours and lapped food up from the floor. Now, he plays the accordion and dreams of becoming a truck driver. (Fakty).
Valentin, a Kyiv motorist, had a rude awakening one Tuesday morning in mid December, behind the wheel of his four-door Zhiguli. Driving along one of the capital's side streets, he suddenly realized that the front end of his vehicle was sinking into the pavement. It turns out that a water pipe had broken below the asphalt carriageway, which then collapsed into a pit. Force Majeure, say the municipal authorities. Valentin intends to sue anyway. (Fakty)
A thirty-one-year-old businesswoman in Vinnitsya didn't want to pay back a debt of nearly $50,000, which she had borrowed from her fifty-one-year-old partner. So, relying on the technical expertise of her husband, who used to dismantle explosives in the army, she made a simple call on her mobile phone, which triggered a detonator to a bomb that blew off her partner's leg. Her spouse wasn't the only one to assist in solving the financial predicament. Police found nine sticks of dynamite hidden at her sister's place. (Segodnya)
In December, Ukrainians not only went to the polls to vote, but to give birth and die as well. An 18-year-old girl from Donetsk went into labor right after casting her ballot. She named her newborn son Viktor, but declined to specify which candidate she had thus honored. In nearby Kharkiv, an 81-year-old woman gave up the ghost while fulfilling her civic duty. It's not known whether she had managed to cast her ballot. In Lviv, a member of a local electoral commission died on the job. His colleague in Dnipropetrovsk never even made it to the polling station: his son had stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife the night before during an argument over dinner. (Agencies)
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