The fast and the fatuous: Moscow drift
Two men in a city outside Moscow found out this weekend what it is to drive a car on thin ice. According to the website Zelenograd.ru, a young man decided to prove to his friend that one of the city's ponds had frozen over sufficiently to support an automobile's weight. He was wrong, it turned out, and his car ended up at the bottom of the pond.
The man first drove his Lada around the pond's perimeter, before deciding that the ice was strong enough to risk a journey across the center of the water. A few seconds later, the ice began to crack, and the car sunk. The driver was able to jump out before being sucked down, too.
In the video below, it's at the 50-second mark when the car falls through the ice.
Immediately after the incident, the owner of the sunk car screamed, "I sunk my Lada-Baklazhan!" referring, happily for some reason, to a new song by rapper Timati. In the video, the car's alarm and headlights are still flashing, even beneath the ice.
The next day, emergency workers arrived at the scene, where a driver attached a cable to the car and a crew then towed it from the water. Police say they will fine the car's owner.
“There was a group of 18-22-year-old men who, it seemed to me, weren't the most sober in the world,” an eyewitness said. “First they went around screeching and roaring along all the homes. Then they went down and came up on the hill around the pond. Only then did they drive out onto the ice. The ice started cracking the moment the car touched it, but these guys decided to take a ‘victory lap.’”