Mycroft
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http://reuters.excite.com/article/2...9104638_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-RUSSIA-LAKE-DC.html
We're so dastardly and evil! Is there nothig we won't do? I've been in denial for too long, but now the cognitive dossonance has grown too great! If we will stoop to stealing a lake from poor Russian folks who have so little...then we truly are evil!
Lake disappears, baffling villagers
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.
NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.
"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.
We're so dastardly and evil! Is there nothig we won't do? I've been in denial for too long, but now the cognitive dossonance has grown too great! If we will stoop to stealing a lake from poor Russian folks who have so little...then we truly are evil!