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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100720/ts_afp/russiaaccidentanimalsoffbeat

MOSCOW (AFP) wrote:Russian beachgoers got a shock when they saw a donkey soaring in the blue skies over the balmy beaches on the Sea of Azov in southern Russia last week, police said on Tuesday.

Attached to a parachute, the animal screamed in fear as it circled over heads of holidaymakers sunbathing on a beach in the Cossack village of Golubitskaya in the Krasnodar region.

A regional police spokeswoman said the donkey ended up in the skies as a result of an impromptu advertising campaign by several Russian entrepreneurs to attract beachgoers to their private beach.

Instead, they attracted the attention of regional police who learned of the flying donkey earlier this week and launched a probe.

"The donkey screamed and children cried," regional police spokeswoman Larisa Tuchkova told AFP. "No-one had the brains to call police."



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Wait... What?..

   
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Are people in less developed countries genuinely less intelligent?

Slightly less evolved?

Empathetically deficient?



 
   
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Animal abuse is pretty endemic in Russia... But this latest incident has had most people thoroughly outraged.

Maybe it'll raise the awareness of it a bit and lead to it being clamped down on by the authorities?

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So stupid its funny, poor fething animal.

Still, at least it lived. The vids here..




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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.  
   
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Well atleast someone had a bit of a concieous to attache a parashute.

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That's one of the greatest things i've ever seen. I'd feel bad for the donkey if it was not so funny : D
   
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Is it wrong that the scene from Shrek where donkey thinks he can fly was the first thing to spring to mind?


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When you say "donkey" in a movie, I wonder how many immediately think about this:




(NSFW, of course...)

   
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Parsail marketing gimic options.

Parasailing panto horse. YES

Parasailing donkey. NO

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garret wrote:Well atleast someone had a bit of a concieous to attache a parashute.


Well I certainly have to ask how else do you think they would get it to fly?
   
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I misunderstood at the post. I thought someon pushed it out of a plane for fun.

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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
 
   
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I have a sudden urge to parasail. Anyone else?

 
   
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And john wang that is one of my fav series ever.

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mattyrm wrote:i like the idea of a woman with a lobster claw for a hand touching my nuts. :-)
 
   
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Wait, What?

That's just worng. Use a person dillweed.
   
 
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