A superstitious Russian man died after burying himself alive in the hopes it would bring him “good luck.”
The 35-year-old computer programmer told friends that spending a night underground would bring him good fortune for the rest of his life.
“According to his friend, the man wanted to test his endurance and insistently asked his friend to help him spend the night buried,” police official Alexei Lubinsky told the BBC.
The victim dug a hole in his garden in the eastern city of Blagoveshchensk and created an improvised coffin with pipes for air. With a cell phone and a bottle of water in hand, he hopped in and had his friend cover the coffin with about eight inches of dirt.
Heavy rain fell overnight and when the friend returned the next morning, his pal was dead. Police suspect the rain somehow blocked the air supply.
via NYDaily
What he needed was common sense, not luck!… RIP.
Ah that’s grotesque! I wonder if his mate now wants a go?
Did anyone tell him that the Wii’s been out for quite awhile now?
some friend! was he in this guy’s will? :/
Well, there’s a candidate for a Darwin Award if ever I’ve seen one.
That’s just awful – what a horrid way to go!
‘You buried him?’
‘Yeah, he asked me to.’
‘Oh. OK.’
What an absolute idiot.
In fact, that applies to both of them.
Eight inches? Doesn’t sound like much, but if it had rained and depending on the type of soil…
Anyone able to make an educated guess at how much that might have weighed?
Were they drunk when they set out on this exercise?
Well at least he was in the right place.
Well that’s one thing I can effectively cross off my “to-do” list