Russian Sleeps It Off With Knife In Back

[Miranda]

Apr 17, 2008

A Russian electrician slept off a night's drinking with a long knife stuck in his back and didn't notice until his wife spotted it in the kitchen the next day, Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda paper reported on Thursday.

Yury Lyalin, 53, was rushed to hospital in the northern city of Vologda, but the 15-centimetre (six-inch) knife had not damaged any vital organs.

His wife saw the handle of the knife sticking out as her husband bent down to get some breakfast from the fridge, the newspaper reported.

Although Lyalin played down the injury, local prosecutors are not treating the incident as a joke and are initiating a case against Lyalin's drinking partner. He could face eight years in jail, the paper reported.

(Reporting by Conor Sweeney, edited by Richard Meares)

2008 Reuters Limited.

[Jadis]

Wow... this guy must have had a heck of night of drinking to not notice a knife in him! But could they really press charges against the drinking partner (even if he did it) if the guy that got stabbed doesn't want to??? Interesting.

[Pandora]

Now that's impressive!

[sass_in_the_pants]

It's cuz he's Russian. They build em like tanks over there.

[Homicidalheathen]

Good lord. Was he so out of it he couldn't feel it or just nervous about going to the hospital....or afraid he would get busted, (the other guy dead maybe??)

I saw a person stabbed in the back and it fucking hurt like hell.