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Title: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: bijou on August 10, 2009, 12:49:52 PM: Quote
MINSK, Belarus â€” Belarusian officials says that a massive statue of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin collapsed on a man who was hanging from it, killing him on the spot.

The Emergency Situations ministry said Monday that the 21-year-old man was drunk when he climbed onto the five-meter (16-feet)-high plaster monument early Monday and hung from its arm. It then broke into pieces and he was crushed. ...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538789,00.html?test=latestnews

Somewhere in this story is a metaphor struggling to get out.
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: Lord Undies on August 10, 2009, 12:54:03 PM: I was hoping this story was set in Seattle.
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: Chris_ on August 10, 2009, 01:02:17 PM: Quote from: Lord Undies on August 10, 2009, 12:54:03 PM
I was hoping this story was set in Seattle.

The one in Seattle is bronze.
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: Happy Fun Ball on August 10, 2009, 01:24:07 PM: Quote from: bijou on August 10, 2009, 12:49:52 PM
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538789,00.html?test=latestnews

Somewhere in this story is a metaphor struggling to get out.
Yeah, like, hang around with communists for long enough and your mind will likely get crushed by their insane ideals.

Or, something like that...
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: bijou on August 10, 2009, 02:12:24 PM: Quote from: Happy Fun Ball on August 10, 2009, 01:24:07 PM
Yeah, like, hang around with communists for long enough and your mind will likely get crushed by their insane ideals.

Or, something like that...
That's the ticket, I just couldn't quite formulate something. :-)
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 10, 2009, 02:26:42 PM: Now that's irony. It would have been bronzy, but they couldn't afford it.

:evillaugh:
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: Crazy Horse on August 10, 2009, 06:45:23 PM: Quote from: Lord Undies on August 10, 2009, 12:54:03 PM
I was hoping this story was set in Seattle.

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We even ordered a statue of Lenin and then ****ing dropped in the middle of town as a warning to would-be socialists.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,31357.0.html
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: GOBUCKS on August 10, 2009, 09:22:35 PM: How long before we have "stimulus funds" spent for huge bronze statues of the jug-eared Kenyan?
Maybe one for each state capital, each county courthouse lawn and selected city parks?
The plaque could just read "The One". After all, he's bigger than LeBron.
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: Tucker on August 11, 2009, 10:17:42 AM: Someone tell Mr. Potato Head that there's a vacant pedestal in Belarus that's in need of a statue.
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 11, 2009, 10:49:06 AM: Lenin....90 years later and he's still putting down dissent the communist way.
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: AllosaursRus on August 12, 2009, 08:04:20 PM: Quote from: JohnnyReb on August 11, 2009, 10:49:06 AM
Lenin....90 years later and he's still putting down dissent the communist way.

I was thinking, after 90 years, the prick is still killing people!
Title: Re: Lenin Statue Collapses, Crushes Man to Death in Belarus
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 13, 2009, 01:07:04 AM: Quote from: AllosaursRus on August 12, 2009, 08:04:20 PM
I was thinking, after 90 years, the prick is still killing people!

Ain't that the communist way.