A Russian soldier is facing a court martial after he crashed his armoured fighting vehicle into a lamp-post while allegedly drunk.
A video clip of the accident shot with a car cam in which the airborne fighting vehicle (BMD) crashes into the lamp-post in Ryazan in Russia has now appeared on the internet.The incident took place opposite the October cinema in the city.
Ryazan’s Margelov airborne training academy is located in the city and the BMD vehicle’s are frequently seen driving around on practice runs.
The pictures from car driver Ivan Ivanov’s video recorder were uploaded on the 30th March. The timestamp on the video states that the date was the 28th, and the time was 15.39.
The BMD was part of a column that was travelling through Ryazan last Thursday, RZN.info reports.
This was not the only road accident involving a military vehicle that day. Another BMD crashed into a car at a crossroads just hours earlier.
Blind pensioner water skis twice a week
A blind pensioner doesn’t let his handicap hold him back with his twice weekly hobby – water skiing.
Peter Sheath, 74, from Southampton, has been water skiing for a quarter of a century – despite being blind since the age of 30.
He no longer performs daring tricks and jumps, such as 360 degree turns, like he used to but still gets on to the water as often as possible.
Sheath said: “I love waterskiing because to a certain degree you’re independent and you can do things able-bodied people can do.
“You’re out there enjoying yourself with the wind blowing through your hair – I’ve always liked the freedom.
“I think in some ways being blind helps because the instant visual fear factor is removed. I never feel scared.”
Sheath’s sight loss was inherited – his grandfather had gone blind at 30 and he always knew he might be affected.
In his 50s, Heath competed in open age water skiing competitions for disabled people, collecting an array of medals and even a world record with a 40ft jump.
He added: “If you want to do something, do it – with waterskiing it doesn’t matter what disability you have, there’s always a way of getting you onto the water.
“As long as I’m fit and healthy I will carry on waterskiing for the foreseeable future.”
Woman arrested for April Fool’s Joke
A Tennessee woman was arrested by police – after she tricked her sister into thinking she had killed her husband.”I was doing an April Fools’ Joke,” Susan Tammy Hudson, 52, told WKPT 19.
“I said, ‘Helen, I shot my husband, I’m cleaning up the mess, let’s go bury him in Blackwater’.”
But the joke backfired when another relative ended up calling the local Kingsport police department.
Officers arrived at Mrs Hudson’s home and took her into custody, according to Times News.
She was later released without charge and had nothing but praise for the local police: “The response was excellent,” she told reporters.
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