From Russia With Pain VI

I still feel like hell, but I don’t want Mr. Smith to have to worry about carrying my sorry ass any more than he already does either.  So I decided to spend some time away from the friendly confines of my bed, and browsed the Internet in search of some stories from everyone’s favorite vodka-swilling, federal semi-presidential democratic republic.  This way I am able to contribute something to the blog without having to do a whole lot, which is nice… 

I’m Leavin in a Jet Wing…

A 15-year-old boy from the Urals suffered acute frostbite after hiding inside the wing of a Boeing-737 plane on a two-hour flight from Perm to Moscow, Russian radio station Mayak reported on Monday. After braving the entire 808 mile flight to Vnukovo Airport, the boy, named Andrei, collapsed onto the tarmac. His arms and legs were so severely frozen that rescuers were at first unable to remove his coat and shoes, the radio station said…The airport did not confirm the report, however, Moscow’s air and water transport control department said the radio’s claim was true.

Doctors said it was nothing short of a miracle that Andrei survived the flight, with temperatures hitting minus -58 Fahrenheit, the radio station said. The Boeing-737 also has a cruising speed of 560 mph…The boy reportedly made the journey after a commonplace domestic dispute. It remains unclear how Andrei was able to climb on a plane wing un-noticed, and the Perm Airport security service is being asked some serious questions, the radio station said. Via

Nose-fera-two

A young man bit off his friend’s nose as the two were playing the game of vampires during the ten-day New Year holidays in Russia, Life News reports. The incident took place in the Moscow region while the two men, aged 27 and 23, were having a drink together and decided to play vampires to entertain themselves…One of the men, named as Aleksey K, was hospitalized to a local trauma station after the other man, his friend Oleg Z, bit off the tip of his nose…Surgeons performed a complicated operation and were able to reattach the severed part of the man’s nose.

“There was a lot of blood. The patient kept saying that he was Count Dracula. When he came to his senses, he could not understand what had happened to him. Now he will have a conspicuous spot on his face – his defected nose – for the rest of his life,” a surgeon said. Via

The Un-Trained Killer

A male resident of the city of Krasnoyarsk in Russia’s Siberia tried to commit suicide twice during one day. At first, the man jumped out of the window of his apartment on the eighth story, but miraculously stayed alive and only suffered a broken leg.  After he realized that his suicide attempt failed, the man decided to go to a first-aid station and ask for help. The man had to cross railway tracks to get to the station, and when he saw a commuter train approaching him, the unlucky self-killer decided to cancel his visit to the doctor. The man instead threw himself on the railway tracks to commit suicide again.  And the man stayed alive again, but broke his second leg in the process. No criminal case was filed in connection with the two bizarre incidents, Siberian News Agency said. Via 

Bonus Link: Strange sci-fi like creatures are found in an abandoned foundation pit in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.