I tried one of them. I voted not in some tabloids, but in the state newspaper Rossiiskaya gazeta, all news related to extraordinary events. I picked it up from early August and missed the usual crime or traffic accidents.
After finishing work, I remember the mayor from the film The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, who said: “There is a ghost there!” Judge for yourself.
Tyumen. In the bakery, workers are cleaning the turned kneader dough. He sucked and killed the employee.
Volgograd region. The driver opened his truck bed but was unable to jump out and was killed under the grain.
Kazan. The public fountain tore off three fingers of a six year old boy.
Nizhny Novgorod. Two boys went on a merry-go-round, they were taken with a broken leg. South Koreans pull their lower limbs into gear.
Podolsk. Over the course of several months, three bandits have abused six disabled people. They tortured them and forced them to beg, taking alms from them.
Jewish Autonomous Region. A 24-year-old woman is accused of kidnapping and torturing two girls. He says he did it out of jealousy.
St. Petersburg. A young man and a girl stand on the balcony of the third floor of a sixty year old house. In an instant, they lay injured on the second floor balcony, where their balcony collapsed. On a positive note, it was reported that the second floor balcony was fine and did not collapse onto the first floor balcony.
Kaluga. At the supermarket, a pensioner took a bottle of expensive cognac from the shelf, smacked a chihuahua who was sitting on another woman’s arm with him, and returned the bottle to the shelf.
Voronezh. A passenger car fell off the road. The driver disappeared in a hole at least three meters deep.
Moscow region. World records were set in the traditional Russian discipline, which was a mass brawl. Two teams of 600 people each face each other. The match is divided into three halves of one minute each. The number of missing teeth and a broken nose was not stated.
Novosibirsk region. A thirty-eight-year-old resident stabbed his girlfriend’s fifteen-year-old daughter with an awl.
Saratov. A grandmother allegedly killed her three grandchildren (aged 3, 5 and 7) and their 23-year-old aunt with poison. Grandma forty-nine.
Nizhny Novgorod. During a date between a 19 year old boy and a 20 year old girl who are in love, the young man gets jealous, takes a stick and kills the girl with a blow to the head.
Tver. The thirty-two-year-old citizen is officially recognized as still alive. But for half a year he was everywhere as if he were dead and had no right to anything a living person could do. Turns out the letters were found on someone’s corpse in 2021.
The latest news is definitely positive.
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