Drunk workers + heavy machinery = dangerous situation. The owner of a house damaged by a Russian tank now knows this all too well.
Not much complicated about this story. Some drunk Russian soldiers crashed their army tank into a house in a village in the Ural Mountains.
The army has promised to pay compensation (gee, thanks), and said the tank must have had technical problems while it was heading to a test site for exercises. Earlier the army blamed ice for the crash.
A Russian Colonel, an army spokesman, said, “Of course there were violations but the crew acted in good faith to catch up with its unit.”
“Thank god they didn’t shoot,” the house owner said, according to wire service reports.
Why was the tank detouring through the village streets in the first place?
Footage from a mobile phone camera shows the tank hitting a corner of the house and a laughing, and apparently drunk, soldier awkwardly trying to climb aboard with two bottles of vodka.
That’s right – the tank made the detour so the soldiers could buy MORE vodka before arriving for the exercise.
