Ukrainian Hummer

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Many people smuggle drugs, but only Ukrainians smuggle salo!

Russian border police on Monday arrested a group of five Ukrainians attempting to smuggle three tons of raw salted pork fat across the international border, the Interfax news agency reported.

The arrests took place in the early morning hours after Russian troops detected three automobiles attempting to exit Russian territory via a field near the village of Gorlovka, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk province.

Russian law enforcers arriving on the scene halted three GAZ sedans, each crammed with a ton of raw salted pork fat, cut into slabs and wrapped in newspapers.

The GAZ-24 Volga is an economy-sized automobile with a cargo capacity of some 500 kilos.
The three arrested drivers and two passengers explained that the vehicle convoy was moving off-road to reduce travel time back to Gorlovka village, incidentally avoiding border checkpoints in the process.

Russian authorities released the suspects later in the day after filing smuggling charges. The vehicles and fat were impounded.

Raw salted pork fat, or "salo," is considered a delicacy in Ukraine, where it is known as the national food.

Three tons of "salo" would retail in the Ukrainian capital Kiev at approximately nine thousand dollars.

When in Ukraine... Watch out for Dolphin Gangs?!?

Ukrainian drunk escapes dolphin gang drowning attempt

Murderous Crimean cetaceans mar New Year dip

By Chris Williams → More by this authorPublished Monday 8th January 2007 17:46

Ukrainian emergency workers saved a drunken swimmer in the Black Sea from an attack by a pod of killer dolphins who were trying to drown him.

The man was reportedly "heavily under the influence of alcohol" at the time. He had braved the near-freezing dolphin-infested waters in the belief they would be good for his health. That's his story and he's sticking to it.

The man was some 30m from the shore when observers noticed his distress as he was harried by a feeding group.

asyl Tenishchev, a spokesman at the Ukrainian Emergency Situations Ministry, said: "If our guys had not been there, the victim surely would have been drowned. The dolphins probably were feeding on fish by cornering schools against the pier and the breakwater, and they saw the man as competition."

Happily, the unfortunate vodka fan escaped the ordeal unharmed, unlike the New Zealand woman who was struck by a 300kg leaping cetacean on a pleasure cruise in the days after Christmas. According to Sydney's Daily Telegraph, she remains in intensive care in Auckland.

The latest dolphin outrage is classic Black Sea dolphin behaviour according to Interfax, the Russian news agency. The mammals "lack the reputation of friendliness and love of humans enjoyed by dolphins in wealthy nations".

Ukrainian animal misadventures have earned their inclusion in the RZSL before. Last June, a man entered the lion enclosure at Kiev zoo proclaiming "God will save me, if he exists". He was promptly savaged.

Sink Hole In Ukraine Capital Swallows Three Automobiles

A massive sink hole suddenly appearing in the Ukrainian capital Kiev swallowed three automobiles, Sehodnia newspaper reported Friday.

The four-metre-wide pit opened up at around 4 a.m. in a parking lot on Volkova street, in a working class neighbourhood.

A Zhiguli four-door, a Volkswagen minibus, and a BMW sedan sank to depth of some two metres below the pavement, and were covered by water.

"I got up in the morning and looked out at the parking lot for my car, and all I saw was its antenna," said the Zhiguli's owner, who identified himself as Vitaly.

A crane hoisted the vehicles out of the hole later in the day. City inspectors arriving on the scene blamed the pavement failure on a broken water main.

All three vehicle owners told reporters they intended to sue the Kiev city water administration damages received by their vehicles, as a result of poor maintenance of the city water supply system.

A statement made public by the Kiev city water utility, Kievvodakanal, blamed the incident on the parking lot operator, who according to Kievvodakanal had broken a city code by running a parking lot directly over a water main.

"We issued no permit to operate a parking lot on ground directly over the water main," a Kievvodakanal official said. "The drivers can try to sue the parking lot owner, but not us."
Privately-run parking lots on questionable territory are ubiquitous in Kiev, which has seen a massive influx of automobiles in recent years, but almost no construction of parking lots.

Hapless drivers searching for a spot often park in places usually forbidden to autos elsewhere in Europe - including sidewalks, traffic circles, and "private" parking lots run by entrepreneurs controlling a bit of city pavement.