 Crime & Punishment |
A fifty-six-year-old man in Crimea was twice unlucky as he tried to jaywalk across an inter-regional highway. First he was hit by a bus driven by a Moldovan who told police he wasn't able to brake in time. Then, a few minutes later, the man was run over by a large truck whose driver said he hadn't noticed him lying unconscious on the asphalt.
A Kyiv man survived three days but-naked in the basement of an apartment block with his foot caught in a radiator. The man's common-law wife had kicked him out of her flat with no clothing in the heat of an argument that followed a late-night drinking party. The parents of the hapless husband, who was eventually discovered by a repair man, lived in the neighboring building, but he was too embarrassed to wake them in his current state of undress.
The police managed to catch only two of five mental patients who escaped from an insane asylum in Rivne region. The patients, who assaulted two nurses during their flight, had been confined to the hospital by a court. "[Our] personnel are not to blame for the escape of the three patients," the asylum's chief psychiatrist was quoted as saying, "after all, it's practically impossible to predict the behavior of the mentally ill."
The residents of several houses on a single street in
a small Crimean town were indignant to have their electricity cut off in the middle of the day. When the local electricity company sent out a team to find out what had happened they found one of their former employees hanging from a power line. The experienced electrician had been trying to illegally hook up his private clients.
A gang of homeless teenagers ranging from 15 to 17 years old had made off with several Ukrainian made cars within just a few weeks before being caught. Operating in Ternopil region, the juvenile delinquents would strip the vehicles and sell them for parts at the local open-air auto market. But when they stole a Niva belonging to a district civil servant he immediately called the police, who caught the kids after the aging automobile suddenly stalled.
Crime & Punishment
A fifty-six-year-old man in Crimea was twice unlucky as he tried to jaywalk across an inter-regional highway. First he was hit by a bus driven by a Moldovan who told police he wasn't able to brake in time. Then, a few minutes later, the man was run over by a large truck whose driver said he hadn't noticed him lying unconscious on the asphalt.
A Kyiv man survived three days but-naked in the basement of an apartment block with his foot caught in a radiator. The man's common-law wife had kicked him out of her flat with no clothing in the heat of an argument that followed a late-night drinking party. The parents of the hapless husband, who was eventually discovered by a repair man, lived in the neighboring building, but he was too embarrassed to wake them in his current state of undress.
The police managed to catch only two of five mental patients who escaped from an insane asylum in Rivne region. The patients, who assaulted two nurses during their flight, had been confined to the hospital by a court. "[Our] personnel are not to blame for the escape of the three patients," the asylum's chief psychiatrist was quoted as saying, "after all, it's practically impossible to predict the behavior of the mentally ill."
The residents of several houses on a single street in
a small Crimean town were indignant to have their electricity cut off in the middle of the day. When the local electricity company sent out a team to find out what had happened they found one of their former employees hanging from a power line. The experienced electrician had been trying to illegally hook up his private clients.
A gang of homeless teenagers ranging from 15 to 17 years old had made off with several Ukrainian made cars within just a few weeks before being caught. Operating in Ternopil region, the juvenile delinquents would strip the vehicles and sell them for parts at the local open-air auto market. But when they stole a Niva belonging to a district civil servant he immediately called the police, who caught the kids after the aging automobile suddenly stalled.
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