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FSB man shoots fire. Fire wins.

2007 Reader Submission
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On July 3th 2007 a big fire broke in warehouse building in Moscow, Russia.

Because burning warehouse contained among other stores balloons with some gas ( I think it was propane), firefighters closed the surrounding area.

Suddenly a man rushed into burning building shouting out loud that he works in FSB (Russian internal security service) and he must perform operational survey. Policemen maintaining closure did not let him to fiercely burning structure.

Not giving up, our hero found unguarded back door, entered burning building and started filming blaze using his cellular phone camera.

Firefighters tried to evacuate him, but at the very moment gas balloons started exploding. Our hero was killed by shrapnel.

When his body was retrieved, it turned out that impatient photographer really was from FSB. A FSB employee ID was found in his pocket.

It's unclear why FSB employee tried to film blaze from inside burning building.

You can get rather crude translation of original news article at http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Submitted on 07/03/2007

Submitted by: Anonymous
Reference: Original in Russian: http://kp.ru/daily/23927/69476/print/

Copyright © 2007 DarwinAwards.com

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
One wonders if this clown could have done his cel phone video from OUTSIDE the blaze. I'll wager he wasn't there on official business but to get the ultimate "YouTube" video! Full DA...


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
As far as I'm concerned the only people who should ever run into a burning building are fire fighters since they're trained to recognize the obvious hazards and (hopefully) remain safe. This fool seemed to think that being a member of the FSB gave him special powers, which couldn't be farther from the truth.


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