Thursday, January 19, 2006

If you lived here, you'd be dead by now (at home)

Bitter Russian winter kills homeless, drunks

2 comments:

Ricky M said...

I love the distinction of the two groups. There's drunks who are homeless, and homeless people who happened to be drunk when they froze to death. Now the drunks with a home to go to at the end of the night, they're okay, but it's the ones who perish somewhere between pubski and homesky that bump up the figures. Shoulda ordered a taxski.

Jake said...

Moscow's coldest spell in 26 years brought out the quirkiest in the Russian character with one animal trainer feeding an elephant a bucket of vodka to warm it up ...

Quoting Marge, "that's your cure for everything"