For the last 10 days, Russians in the remote Siberian town of Omsk have been trying to save a container holding 10 tons of beer that fell into the allegedly frozen Irtysh River.
With scary visions of a long, sober winter on the tundra, the Emergency Ministry of the Cherlaksky region dispatched 6 divers, 10 workers and a modified T-72 tank to rescue the beer container.
Since that wasn’t getting anywhere, Russian Army troops were deployed today to give it a shot. They claim it will be done within a day.
Tomorrow, Russian troops will find the container to be 10 tons lighter than it was yesterday. Inside, they will find a note…
Sorry, comrades. We owe you 10 tons of beer.
—The Editors of Cyberista
In all seriousness, perhaps the Russians should hire the Dutch. Last May, the Russians lost a nuclear submarine named the Kursk. They let everybody die. If it weren’t for intense media attention, the Russian government would have been content to leave their men among whale shit. Despite the media attention, the Russians still failed to disclose the facts and failed to help the families of the victims. On October 23rd, the Dutch companies, Mammoet and Smit International, raised the submarine.
If the submarine had 10 tons of beer then, no doubt, the Kursk would not have turned into a cemetery.
Cheers to Russian bureaucrats everywhere.
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