Drink Expert Prosecuted for Important Research

It's a Disgrace

It's rather ironic, too.

& they say americans don't understand irony...

Donnie Brasco. Don't worry 'bout it..

Page last updated at 16:54 GMT, Thursday, 17 April 2008 17:54 UK. BBC.co.uk

A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch (15-cm) knife in his back- until his wife woke him up.

Yuri Lyalin, 53, took a bus home, ate breakfast and apparently slept like a baby before his spouse noticed a handle sticking out of his back.

He was rushed to casualty but doctors found no vital organs damaged.

Mr Lyalin shrugged the episode off but the drinking partner who stabbed him faces trial, Russian media report.

'Unique and intriguing the case may be, but the accused faces a severe punishment,' said Pavel Vorobyov, a deputy prosecutor in the northern city of Vologda.

'We were drinking.'

Mr Lyalin, an electrician, had spent the evening drinking with a watchman at his workplace when they got into an argument, Interfax news agency reports.. His alleged attacker reported the crime to the police himself, Interfax adds. Mr Lyalin apparently feels fine and bears no ill-will.

'We were drinking and what doesn't happen when you're drunk.' he was quoted by Komsomolskaya Pravda as saying.

So is this moron an actual researcher or just an alcoholic who had a really good cover story??

Almost comical-out of a Woody Allen movie.

Chris Nash wrote:

hibster wrote: & they say americans don't understand irony...

They don't. The article mentioned irony - just to give the Americans a clue...

What's all this talk about ironing? I'm confused?