Youths of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Pay Respects On Army Day
Friday, February 23rd was Defenders of the Motherland Day (also known as Army Day, or Men’s Day). It is a national holiday across the whole of Russia, and should be a welcome breather for the Russian Army which, if President Putin’s recent speech in Munich is to be believed, should be preparing to defend their country against an imminent American invasion.
Anyway, as the brave soldiers of Russia were doubtlessly digging trenches around Volgagrad and St. Petersburgians were hoarding food, what were the youth of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk up to on this day of army celebration? Why, they were robbing the military hospital which sits behind my apartment of its fire extinguishers by climbing through a hole in the roof!
That’ll help the war effort!
WTH they need fire extinguishers for?!?
Mysterious Russian soul…
Comment by Tatyana — February 25, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
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Pingback by Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Russia: Feb. 23; Hatred for Bush — February 27, 2007 @ 2:11 am
WTH they need fire extinguishers for?!?
They spent the next 20 minutes or so discharging them at each other.
Comment by Tim Newman — February 27, 2007 @ 5:44 am
Hey, at least they were not seating on their behinds in front of the screen all day! Sometimes I wished my son would actually do something stupid rather than hear screams “fire in the hole” from his room!
Comment by Tatyana — February 28, 2007 @ 1:03 am
Tim, you are lucky that was a hospital not an ammo warehouse : )
So, Tatyana, tell me, stealing fire extinguishers from a hospital is called now “at least they were not seating on their behinds”!! hmmmmmm, weird !!
Hope your son doesn’t read your comment
Comment by Z. Z — March 1, 2007 @ 5:11 am
Don’t worry about my son, ZZ, he’s doing something stupid right about this very minute. Making his mama proud!
Comment by Tatyana — March 1, 2007 @ 8:25 am