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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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 Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:44 am Post subject: More Darwin Award winners |
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A superstitious Russian man died after burying himself alive in the hopes it would bring him "good luck."
The 35-year-old computer programmer told friends that spending a night underground would bring him good fortune for the rest of his life.
"According to his friend, the man wanted to test his endurance and insistently asked his friend to help him spend the night buried," police official Alexei Lubinsky told the BBC.
The victim dug a hole in his garden in the eastern city of Blagoveshchensk and created an improvised coffin with pipes for air.
With a cell phone and a bottle of water in hand, he hopped in and had his friend cover the coffin with about eight inches of dirt.
Heavy rain fell overnight and when the friend returned the next morning, his pal was dead.
Police suspect the rain somehow blocked the air supply.
A similarly bizarre fate met a another man in Russia last summer after pals buried him. They found him dead an hour-and-a-half later, crushed by the weight of the dirt. |
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420trader
Joined: 22 May 2011
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I heard jumping off a skyscraper will bring 40 years of good fortune and wealth. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Just 8 inches of dirt......you wouldn't think that would be enough to kill the guy. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess
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| Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| perhaps the air supply cut off while he was sleeping. |
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