1,200 Russians drown in June - HEAT, drinking, and most sadly kids (6 this week)

underpants

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Sat Jul-17-10 07:25 PM
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1,200 Russians drown in June - HEAT, drinking, and most sadly kids (6 this week)

Edited on Sat Jul-17-10 07:25 PM by underpants

Drunk Russians Drown Escaping Heatwave

More than 1,200 people drowned across Russia in June this year, he said, including 233 between July 5 and July 12.

"The majority of those drowned were drunk," he said. "The children died because adults simply did not look after them."

Last week six children drowned in the Sea of Azov in southern Russia because the summer camp employees who were minding them were drunk.

"Russia's Emergencies Ministry is very worried by the current situation. In the last day alone, 49 people drowned (in Russia), including two children, Vadim Seryogin, a department head at the ministry, told a news conference.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=11161422

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/15/drunk-russians-drown-esca_n_647991.html

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MrScorpio

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Sat Jul-17-10 07:31 PM
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1. Jeezus!

And I though we were booze hounds.

We have nothing on the Rooskies.

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underpants

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Sat Jul-17-10 07:33 PM
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2. Vodka in the sweltering heat

:shrug:

Yes we do booze it up here but that is just amazing.

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Posteritatis

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Sat Jul-17-10 07:41 PM
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3. There's a (possibly-apocryphal) story...

Kievan Rus was presented with the options of converting to Christianity, Islam or Judaism in the 980s; his main reason for rejecting Islam was the prohibition on alcohol.

(And wouldn't those second and third options have changed things!)

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daleo

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Sat Jul-17-10 08:37 PM
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4. Canada has about 400 drownings per year

Given weather conditions (which are similar to Russia's), probably 100 or so of those would be in June. Russia has about 5 times the population, so that would scale to about 500 drownings in June, were Canada's population the same size as Russia's. Lot's of Canada's drownings are also booze related.

The U.S. has about 3500 drownings per year. That seems like a pretty low number compared to Canada and Russia, given the much longer swimming season in the U.S. Warmer water might be part of the explanation - cold water can really fool people, even good swimmers.

http://www.lifesaving.ca/main.php?lang=english&cat=media&sub=400_too_many

http://www.poseidon-tech.com/us/statistics.html

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underpants

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Sun Jul-18-10 06:56 AM
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5. Thanks for the info

this appears to be a spike in drownings in Russia.

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