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2021-07-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Railroad sign stolen by US embassy employee, charges Russian Foreign Ministry

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Posted by badanov 2021-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 That sounds like some mickey mouse sh*t. Twenty-something being a jackass or an old Cold War hand making sure we do not suffer a railroad sign gap?

Posted by SteveS 2021-07-13 00:12|| 2021-07-13 00:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Ivy Leaguers are used to laws only applying to the little people. I'm sure it was a genuine shock to be declared persona non grata and expelled.

Posted by Knuckles Slererong5344 2021-07-13 03:18|| 2021-07-13 03:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Who knows?? Person might've been made/cover blown and we used this as a distraction for a bigger issue. Magic 8 Ball may say "very doubtful" but stranger things have happened under Moscow Rules.

Or he was just a jerk that got drunk and stole a sign...

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2021-07-13 06:20|| 2021-07-13 06:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Something to hang on wall behind the bar. Couldn't afford Tucker art. Poor people have poor ways.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-07-13 07:57|| 2021-07-13 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 I went to college with a guy named Stewart. When he was in preppy school (St. Paul's, Concord NH), he did a road trip to Stewartstown, NH (pretty much the tip of NH) and stole the town marker sign.

Posted by Raj 2021-07-13 10:17|| 2021-07-13 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Back in the 80's there was a number of "octagonal shields" being used by SCA reenactors for their rattan melees. (I thought it was a dumb, no criminally stupid idea then...)

Posted by magpie 2021-07-13 10:42|| 2021-07-13 10:42|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ People can do some really stooopid things when they are young and dumb.

Posted by magpie 2021-07-13 10:43|| 2021-07-13 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 ...which is why voting age used to begin at 21. When they changed that the argument was if they're old enough to die in war they should get to pick who'll send them. Unfortunately, they didn't limit to those who were the basis of the argument.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-07-13 10:59|| 2021-07-13 10:59|| Front Page Top

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