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| Railroad sign stolen by US embassy employee, charges Russian Foreign Ministry |
| 2021-07-13 |
| Direct translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] An unidentified employee of the United States embassy stole a pointer from the Ostashkovo railway station in the Tver region, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on July 12. According to her, in the spring in the Tver region, a road sign disappeared at the junction of a railway station. The police found out from CCTV cameras that an unknown man had stolen the sign and put it in the trunk of a car, the license plates of which were red (they are issued by to diplomatic cars). Later, traffic police officers stopped an employee of the American embassy for violating traffic rules, who "in all respects fit the description." "If the loss had not been found in time, a tragedy could have happened," Zakharova wrote in her telegram channel. As a result, an employee of the American embassy was sent back to the United States. As reported by IA REGNUM , earlier Zakharova said that the United States authorities independently undermined their consular work in Russia. "For several years, they did not just work disgracefully in the consular sphere, they undermined all their consular work," Zakharova said. According to her, Russia did not force the United States to reduce the number of consular employees, it was Washington's decision. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #8 ...which is why voting age used to begin at 21. When they changed that the argument was if they're old enough to die in war they should get to pick who'll send them. Unfortunately, they didn't limit to those who were the basis of the argument. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-13 10:59 |
| #7 /\ People can do some really stooopid things when they are young and dumb. |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-07-13 10:43 |
| #6 Back in the 80's there was a number of "octagonal shields" being used by SCA reenactors for their rattan melees. (I thought it was a dumb, no criminally stupid idea then...) |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-07-13 10:42 |
| #5 I went to college with a guy named Stewart. When he was in preppy school (St. Paul's, Concord NH), he did a road trip to Stewartstown, NH (pretty much the tip of NH) and stole the town marker sign. |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-07-13 10:17 |
| #4 Something to hang on wall behind the bar. Couldn't afford Tucker art. Poor people have poor ways. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-07-13 07:57 |
| #3 Who knows?? Person might've been made/cover blown and we used this as a distraction for a bigger issue. Magic 8 Ball may say "very doubtful" but stranger things have happened under Moscow Rules. Or he was just a jerk that got drunk and stole a sign... |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2021-07-13 06:20 |
| #2 Ivy Leaguers are used to laws only applying to the little people. I'm sure it was a genuine shock to be declared persona non grata and expelled. |
| Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344 2021-07-13 03:18 |
| #1 That sounds like some mickey mouse sh*t. Twenty-something being a jackass or an old Cold War hand making sure we do not suffer a railroad sign gap? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-07-13 00:12 |