Sunday, July 29, 2012

I Want to Be a Bear-borne Ranger

Live the life of sex and danger (tip to Mad Minerva):

After weeks of denial, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko admitted that a small Swedish plane entered his country's airspace July 4, dropping hundreds of teddy bears on tiny black parachutes, the Belta news agency reports.

Rather awkward for your basic authoritatian thug ruler.

Although "hundreds" seems an exaggeration based on the video unless locals dropped a whole lot from tall buildings under the air cover they received.

Reminds me of Mathias Rust, who cracked the facade of Soviet power with a similar small plane stunt.