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Russian who buried himself alive dies by mistake The victim phoned from the coffin to say he was fine, but the next morning he was found dead
A Russian man has died after persuading a friend to bury him alive for a night, hoping it would bring him "good luck".
The victim dug a hole in a garden in the eastern city of Blagoveshchensk and climbed into an improvised coffin, with holes for air pipes, taking a mobile phone and a bottle of water with him.
His friend covered the coffin with earth and then left, after the buried man phoned to say he was fine.
The next morning, he returned to find his friend dead, investigators said.
The 35-year-old victim had believed that burying himself alive for a night would bring him luck 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," said Alexei Lubinsky, a senior aide to the region's chief investigator.
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The coffin was covered with soil to a depth of about 20cm (eight inches), Mr Lubinsky said.
He speculated that heavy rainfall overnight could have blocked the air supply to the man trapped inside.
The superstitious victim was probably influenced by reading stories about self-burial on the internet, investigators said.
In a bizarre trend, numerous Russian bloggers write of undergoing supervised self-burial. State newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta has even run a feature on the practice.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg, in Moscow, says it is not the first time this has happened in Russia.
Last summer a man in the north-western Vologda region persuaded his friend to bury him in the ground - to help him overcome his fear of death.
He was found dead an hour and a half later, crushed by the weight of the earth.
Russian who buried himself alive dies by mistake The victim phoned from the coffin to say he was fine, but the next morning he was found dead
A Russian man has died after persuading a friend to bury him alive for a night, hoping it would bring him "good luck".
The victim dug a hole in a garden in the eastern city of Blagoveshchensk and climbed into an improvised coffin, with holes for air pipes, taking a mobile phone and a bottle of water with him.
His friend covered the coffin with earth and then left, after the buried man phoned to say he was fine.
The next morning, he returned to find his friend dead, investigators said.
The 35-year-old victim had believed that burying himself alive for a night would bring him luck 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," said Alexei Lubinsky, a senior aide to the region's chief investigator.
Internet craze
The coffin was covered with soil to a depth of about 20cm (eight inches), Mr Lubinsky said.
He speculated that heavy rainfall overnight could have blocked the air supply to the man trapped inside.
The superstitious victim was probably influenced by reading stories about self-burial on the internet, investigators said.
In a bizarre trend, numerous Russian bloggers write of undergoing supervised self-burial. State newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta has even run a feature on the practice.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg, in Moscow, says it is not the first time this has happened in Russia.
Last summer a man in the north-western Vologda region persuaded his friend to bury him in the ground - to help him overcome his fear of death.
He was found dead an hour and a half later, crushed by the weight of the earth.
Wow, excellent results - they both got the result they were looking for, the first didn't have any more bad luck and the second wasn't afraid of death any more. Hooray for them Eh! Aahh! I love the smell of irony in the morning
By the way what is the weight of the Earth on the moon and would he have been crushed by it if he was buried there? Such intriguing questions:
So the Earth's mass is 6x10^24kg and the Moons relative gravity is 1/6th of Earth so, on the Moon the Earth would weight (6x10^24)x0.17 = 1.02x10^24kg Daaah! Dat's nufin I could bench press dat, probably
Dave
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When I read c£ap like this I wonder how the human race has survived as long as it has when some of it's members are stupid beyond belief.
I spent the best part of Sunday of this week with a family member in A & E where doctors are doing their best to saves lives and then I have to read utter garbage like this.
I also understand that "planking" has caused some fatalities because the "plankers" have chosen to do this at a great height - and fallen off something.
I also understand that "tombstoning" is the latest craze in some areas.
Around here they try and jump off one side of the church roof and try and land on another side and sometimes they hit it and sometimes they miss.
What pi$$es me off big time is that all of us taxpayers have to pay for the exploits of these brain-dead morons.
Rant over.
Cranky Cat
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So the Earth's mass is 6x10^24kg and the Moons relative gravity is 1/6th of Earth so, on the Moon the Earth would weight (6x10^24)x0.17 = 1.02x10
In bench pressing terms Dave, it's probably about 220lb
Robin
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