In the province of Sofia, Bulgaria, local prosecutors are scratching their heads as to why anyone would want to participate in a driving gambling game that has dead-end results.
Russian road roulette is a game played by drivers at very busy intersections at night. The rules of this macabre game is as follows: A driver must gun his car at a high speed, jump red lights at bustling intersections and try not to crash into any other vehicles or pedestrians. Bets are placed by the drivers, and the ones who make it, can receive upwards of $5,000. Onlookers also bet on the outcome.
To take part in the game, motorists are notified via text messages when and where it will take place, because participants choose venues depending upon where police are present for that particular night.
A few months ago, two people died after a motorcyclist crashed into an onlooker. Prosecutors began investigating this deadly sport after media stories started popping up this past summer. According to published reports, police have begun staking out intersections where they believe the games will take place.
Word to the wise: Don't get any foolish ideas!
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Ruth Manuel-Logan is a Car Chick indeed! She grew up in a family where cars reigned supreme. Who says girlie girls can't be into nuts and bolts, metal and exhaust fumes? When she's not car bloggin'
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By: Rick Higginson on 11/07/2009 6:28PM
As far as I'm concerned, I regard this as "the human - lemming effect." There is a misconception
or myth that large groups of lemmings deliberately commit suicide by jumping off of cliffs and/or diving into water, where they meet their demise.
There SHOULD be a difference between human beings, who one might think have at least a modicum of intellect, and small, dumb animals. This does not always appear to be the case. Here, the idiots / individuals who promote or participate in this activity are extremely and completely immature, have no appreciation for cause & effect and for their own safety or that of others. One way to try to put a stop to this would be, in an instance where anyone is injured, to prosecute all participants and onlookers for attempted murder (those "only observing" help to promote this activity because the participants want an audience), and where there is a death, all participants and onlookers should be prosecuted for at least second degree murder. Then, (along with claiming that "this isn't fair") those who are prosecuted or may be inclined to participate in such activities may take the consequences more seriously. Those who simply can't "live" (at least temporarily) without the "adrenalin rush" that is derived from participating in very dangerous activity should engage in pursuits such as race car driving and launching motorcycles over 50 cars, where all of those involved are aware of the possibility of harm and danger to others is minimized.
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By: gary on 11/08/2009 7:10AM
Hey Rick..stop intellectualizing gross stupidity. Only a moron and other morons observing would condone this activity. Thank God it's there and not here! We have enough trying to cope with our own moronic behavior right here!! "You can't fix stupid!"
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By: JD on 11/08/2009 10:02AM
Or we could change to a socio-econo-political system that puts less value on money and "stuff"... and more value on, well, the things that really matter in life and to the world.
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By: gary on 11/08/2009 7:05AM
BULGARIA?? It figures....this is what happens to men when their women do not shave under their arms or their legs. Too much wool!
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By: Jeanie on 11/08/2009 7:13AM
WAY TO GO you half-assed media!!!!! NOW, though 92% of the country has never heard of this stupidity, NOWWWWWWW they have...thanks. So now that it started in some third world country, you bring it HERE to the USA where we already have drive-by shootings, road rage, gangs, etc. You media people have your head up your butts!!!!! In other words.........SHUT THE HELL UP!
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By: Crash-n-Dash on 11/08/2009 9:10AM
This is too cool- Darwinism in another fine form! And brought to you, America, by the fine folks who prompted the Columbine and the 'soon to be' Fort Hood copycats,-our wonderful dumass media. Believing the best outcome of this now would be population control, mainly in the younger sector, where the gene pool truly does need to be strongly chlorinated. The testosterone charged kids of today are too mentaly inadequate not to try this feat of bravery, not having been taught the differnces between right and wrong as they grow up. Conveying the messsage by their parents-"It's okay to let your offspring be raised by their video games and Hip-Hop music. Let them roam the streets with they homies and ax society for acceptance bacause it's okay to be gay."
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By: klkjsrja on 11/08/2009 11:13AM
This is just great!!!! Post this game on the web so all the teenage kids here in the U.S. read it and start playing the game here!!!
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By: racendirt on 11/08/2009 11:14AM
All parties involved should get mandatory life...no games.
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By: Degar on 11/08/2009 2:37PM
Maybe we could introduce this little game to all the Gang-Bangers in America? Let the low-life dirt bags off themselves!
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By: porcuspigus on 11/08/2009 12:04PM
not all the people will follow. only the sheeples. beh,beh,beh.
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