Comments on: Crime in Russia

Crime in Russia

josher71 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:52:32 -0800

The crime in Moscow makes for some great headlines.

By: coachfortner

coachfortner — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:57:54 -0800

Is there really such a thing as an 'accidental grenade blast'?

By: stet

stet — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:03:12 -0800

An elderly woman has been arrested and charged with fraud after she tried to sell a large corundum stone for $20 million, passing it off as a giant hunk of ruby crystal, Corundum and ruby are the same mineral

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:08:58 -0800

Attack Puts N. Korean Laborers in Hospital Hilarious.

By: hellslinger

hellslinger — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:11:04 -0800

HAHAHA great headlines, not a boring one in the bunch.

By: cairnish

cairnish — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:13:13 -0800

Elevator Man Caught Lifting Cables got a rise out of me.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:23:31 -0800

Police Told to Find Out Who Killed the Cat A Mr. Curiosity is wanted for questioning.

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:26:25 -0800

Landlord Dismembered 2 Victims coachfortner writes: Is there really such a thing as an 'accidental grenade blast'? Well, yeah: Man Killed By Grenade Detonated In Pocket

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:30:55 -0800

Ah, Russian crime, you truly exist to amuse us. cf. Moscow's The eXile presents: Death Porn.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:32:37 -0800

If this was FARK, each one of these could have been a separate post... oh wait, this isn't FARK... but it is getting harder and harder to tell the difference... /so sue me, we got another 5 inches of snow, it is a LONG way to spring, and I'm crabby as hell!

By: wsg

wsg — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:35:12 -0800

And there's this, too: Killing of glamour model-bodyguard stuns Moscow

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:44:30 -0800

I wonder if the Russian mafia bothers to take their cut when someone commits rock fraud.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:52:20 -0800

Vegetable Oil Mogul Hit With RPG Lightning bolt!

By: Bathtub Bobsled

Bathtub Bobsled — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:02:02 -0800

In Russia, newspaper headlines write Вы.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:10:09 -0800

2 Arrests for Headless Corpse Please tell me I'm not the only one pondering a Russian noir TV series, filmed on a shoestring budget with outdated equipment, that features a headless corpse solving crimes. Everyone will speak in Russian, but there will be poorly translated subtitles. The corpse will never move or speak, but it will change location depending on the scene. The show will be five times as baffling as Turkish Star Wars and three times as hilarious. The first episode's title will translate loosely to Dial R for Rock Fraud.

By: Jay Reimenschneider

Jay Reimenschneider — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:28:01 -0800

Moscow is Disneyland compared to Philly.

By: Parasite Unseen

Parasite Unseen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:36:36 -0800

Funny... I saw the words Rock Fraud and immediately assumed that they were writing a story about Nickelback.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:47:37 -0800

Yikes! Do the editors deliberately look for crazy news, or is shit just crazy over there?

By: heatherbeth

heatherbeth — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:52:15 -0800

Chunks of Flesh, Leg Found in Trash In a week of bizarre crimes involving dismembered corpses, an elderly woman hacked up her adult son with an ax and a saw after years of fighting over his girlfriends, while a sawed-off leg led police to two suspects in a drunken double murder, prosecutors said. There are so many things to be said about this. First. I love that opening sentence. There were just so many crimes involving severed body parts they could just glibly use it as the lead. Secondly, there's the use of the phrase "hacked up." Couldn't we have said "an elderly woman disposed her sons body only after using a ax and saw to cut the remains into smaller pieces"... No!

By: domakesaypat

domakesaypat — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:54:52 -0800

I would be much more comfortable with overly sensational news if it was always so awesome. We should be taking notes, or maybe our criminals should.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:08:07 -0800

Corundum and ruby are the same mineral Your very own link makes it clear that ruby is a subset of corundum; while all rubies are corundum, not all corundum is rubies.

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:15:54 -0800

Robocop you are my hero.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:30:07 -0800

(Somehow, I keep getting Parasite Unseen confused with Unicorn on the Cob.)

By: darksasami

darksasami — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:38:29 -0800

2 Arrests for Headless Corpse Chunks of Flesh, Leg Found in Trash Handcuffed Suspect Flees Near Court Doo-Dah News could use this link.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:49:45 -0800

2 Arrests for Headless Corpse Heh, I was pondering an entirely different misinterpretation of this than robocop is bleeding's (whose version is far better): "Arresting a headless corpse once is bad enough; twice smacks of overkill."

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:50:15 -0800

Do the editors deliberately look for crazy news, or is shit just crazy over there? The answer is clearly "Both."

By: Ragma

Ragma — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:27:10 -0800

Filmmaker Murdered, Flushed Down Toilet Seriously? Yes. Seriously.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:42:24 -0800

"Arresting a headless corpse once is bad enough; twice smacks of overkill." I can see the smarmy defense lawyer all arguing up in Jack McCoy's grill that double jeopardy has attached. McCoy's eyebrows start to go wild as he shakes his head vigorously. "Your Honor!" he shouts, thrusting a finger against a manila folder full of damning evidence, "Mr. Headless Corpse must pay for what he did!" And the judge, hypnotized by McCoy's salt-and-pepper manness nods solemnly and says, "Overruled." McCoy gets a victory smirk and the scene fades to a commercial for next day floor delivery.

By: pravit

pravit — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:44:11 -0800

A 2-meter-tall Cameroonian man has spent at least the last month posing as a U.S. diplomat. And as the prospective owner of a basketball team. And as a construction worker.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:34:00 -0800

And the judge, hypnotized by McCoy's salt-and-pepper manness nods solemnly and says, "Overruled." McCoy gets a victory smirk and the scene fades to a commercial for next day floor delivery. You forgot the "chung-chung".

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:11:45 -0800

Watch it, Rock Steady. Rosie O'Donnell got in trouble for that shit.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:26:06 -0800

Whoa, that page reads like total collapse is inevitable. I was just about to say the Russians seem to have a deep histrionic streak, a big appetite for dramarama. And then I remembered that proverb about one finger pointing out but three fingers pointing back at the person doing the pointing. America's fascination with Jerry Springer type of tv bs, ugh, comes to mind. But there is something so unrelenting about the Moscow Times page. Not even a squeak of good news. Is this totally un-pc to say that Eastern Europeans and Russians don't seem to give much energy to good news (unless they are related to, imo totally unbelievable, healing miracles), as if positive things weren't to be trusted but only negative things are trustworthy? Is that a cultural thing or a post Stalin thing? Am totally ignorant about the Russian mindset, it's quite mysterious to me. I do love their amazing creativity and cultural diversity, especially the kind of eye candy sort of thing on English Russia, one of my favorite websites. It's got to be so hard in Moscow these days or is that just media hype, like the old hype about NYC and all the supposed violence here?

By: Free word order!

Free word order! — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:56:03 -0800

Notice the dates. That page spans 1 1/2 years of grisly crimes. Wasn't there some body parts thrown along the road at the states just few days ago?