Posted on 06/01/2011 4:36:18 AM PDT by LibWhacker
A Russian man died after burying himself alive in a friend's garden in the eastern city of Blagoveshchensk in an endurance test that went wrong.
"According to his friend, the man, 35, wanted to test his endurance and insistently asked his friend to help him spend the night buried," said Alexei Lubinsky, a senior aide to the region's chief investigator.
The two men dug a hole in the garden and put inside an improvised coffin with holes for air pipes. The man also took a blanket, a bottle of water and a cell phone.
The victim's friend told investigators he covered the hole with planks and earth to a depth of around 20 centimetres and then went home, after receiving a phone call from his friend telling him he was fine. The next morning, he found his friend dead.
Lubinsky speculated that overnight rain could have blocked the air supply to the coffin.
"We know that the victim was a computer programmer and that he has a small child," Lubinsky said, adding that he probably was influenced by reading stories about self-burial on the internet.
In a bizarre trend, numerous Russian bloggers write of undergoing supervised self-burial and state newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta even ran a feature on the practice.
Last summer a resident of the northern Vologda region died after he asked a friend to bury him in the forest in an attempt to lose his fear of death and was crushed by the earth, investigators said.
Did the planet roll over in its sleep?
What are they putting into the vodka these days?
What’s the matter? Is Russian Roulette now old hat?
According to the article he has a small child. Idiot, is correct.
That's what I call, "Cutting out the middle man."
Serve tropical drinks with little umbrellas. Open a spa. Cha-ching.
*Drink of the Gods* 2 oz vodka
1 oz blueberry schnapps
1 oz pineapple juice
Pour all ingredients in a shaker, shake and pour into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice.
The standards have changed.
“IN Soviet Russia, they bury you, then you DIE!”
Lends new meaning to “digging up an old friend.”
Afterwards you can have him over for dinner.
Not the cannibalism again!
Slings, you do know that’s what got Laz suspended, right?
Why are people always talking about cannibalism like it’s a bad thing?
Oh! I see that you’re in the “it’s dead now, and we’re going to eat it” school of thought.
With apologies to Berkeley Breathed.
Al Packer said he would eat human flesh again if he got the opportunity. Musta tasted like chicken. (^;
“...There was siven Dimmycrats in Hinsdale County! But you, yah voracious, main-eatin son of a bitch, yah et five of them!”
—Judge Melville B. Gerry, at Alferd Packer’s sentencing.
He ate five Democrats? That couldn’t possibly have agreed with him.
Five democrats wouldn’t agree with each other, until it came time to pass out the pork.
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