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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Today's Idiot
2008-03-08
Russian tank rams house on vodka run

MOSCOW - An apparently drunk Russian tank driver rammed his 25-tonne fighting machine into a remote village cottage while on a vodka run, footage aired on Friday on state television showed.

The soldier was filmed driving the tank, armed with an anti-aircraft gun, through a tiny street in Oktyabrskaya, in the Ural mountainsÂ’ Sverdlovsk region. He clambered unsteadily into his vehicle with two freshly purchased bottles, then rammed a fence and a house while attempting to leave.

“He was drunk,” a villager said on Channel One television.
No, reeeeaaaallly?
An assistant at the local shop said the soldier had purchased two bottles of vodka. Army spokesman Konstantin Lazutkin promised the military would pay for repairs.
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#4  Video
Posted by: Icrigger   2008-03-08 20:42  

#3  if he was drunk and driving a tank then i say he did pretty good considering drunk drivers in cars do alot more damae
Posted by: sinse   2008-03-08 17:33  

#2  Remedial driver training class in somebody's future.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-03-08 10:34  

#1  And the soldier will go to a Siberian Gulag for the rest of his life.

Actually, I think they are a lot more tolerant of that sort of thing than we are. He'll probably get slapped around a little and have to do some extra chores for the week.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-03-08 09:14  

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