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- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -3/+162This just in, Forex experts value the silo's contents at $2.43 USD.
- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30Notice the headlines below the story:
Ukrainian Killed in Moscow Garbage Truck
Special Forces Prevent Burning Scarecrows of Bush, Putin, Blair in Moscow
50-Year-Old Mother Studies Karate to Protect 22-Year-Old Son From Bullies
Doctors Say Moscow Frost Saved Taxi Robber With Knife in Head
Ukrainian Woman Faces Trial for Sucking Teenage Boys’ Blood
What an exciting time to be a Russian... - Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Don't forget these other exciting headlines
Mechanics Remove Grenade From Gas Tank After Russian Driver Complains of Car Malfunctions
2 Cannibals Convicted of Murder After Cooking Russian Man for Dinner
Russian Customer Finds Corpse in Secondhand Car From Japan
Russian Convicts Cut Veins to Protest Changes in TV Schedule
Thieves Posing as Policemen Steal Truck Full of Butter - rpflug, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17That picture is of a submarine silo. No stock footage of a land based missile silo?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13shotguns in space craft, missle silos full of money, sharks with lasers on their heads.
i always dreamed the furture would be just like this. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Is that site for real or is it a parody site?
-signed ignorant american - Pollack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Somebody has had their piggybank busted.
- getpfunky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7And they need your help getting it out of their country of Nigeria.
- CamoChris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Lesson of the day: Wikipedia is your friend, use it when things confuse you!
- Threephaserebel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Good one.
This would have made the story better: "The thieves after finding this money were quick to plan on buying a loaf of bread but were unable to since the Russian Mafia had come to collect."
Technically isn't the material still non-ferrous so that means the thieves technically succeeded? - ClosedGL, on 10/12/2007, -13/+19In Soviet Russia, money bills turn into non-ferrous metals!
- leqin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The site is real - apart from Pravda and Izvestia and Moscow Today the Mosnews.com site is one of the most heavily visited and read Russian news websites on the whole internet.
Soviet era 'money bills' - that's Rubles to you and me - are worthless because of the levels of inflation that Russia's economies suffered through and from since the end of the Soviet era and the currency used on the street has been redesigned and replaced 2 times since 1991.
Russian news articles are edited in Russian and only then converted to other languages for posting on the particular newspaper or news services website. Because of this they end up with some slightly weird, to our eyes and ears' uses of the English language and unfortunately the closest direct translation of currency is 'money bills'. Ditto "Danila now also goes there to watch his mother training, but he is afraid to try karate himself."... in Russian it sounds like music and makes perfect grammatical sense, but sadly in the conversion it looses its grace and power.
Believe me if some of you peeps think some of those news articles are weird and wacky then go spend a few years working in Russia on contract and you will come back with your eyes wide open... Russia is maybe the most weird and wacky country on the planet. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sounds like the Russian version of Weekly World News.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I totally agree. A silo full of Russian money will get you one coffee at Starbucks
- zincanode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4which is almost as cool as a missile silo full of LSD.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/07/MN154990.DTL - TheCheeta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wondered the same thing. Since I hadn't RTFA when I first saw the pic, I was astounded that theives were able to board a Russian nuke sub.
Real bright breaking into a silo that potentially held a radiation hazard. - JAWS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Next Headline:
*lucky group of theives that found silo full of money found butchered after Russian Mafia dismembers them" - definiteform, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The thieves obviously had a treasure map.
- licoricewhip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3So they found a missile silo full of radioactive mutant Russian coinage. Must be a Russian rendition of the movie "Holes."
- linuxpunk81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes they had money...but they payed themselves since everyone was a government worker..the money was only good in their economy so it just went around in a big socialist paradice circle. One of the many reasons it didn't work. But it was nice for the military they could build whatever they wanted because really it didn't cost anything..the money all come from the same place lol
- 71M80, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Kevin Rose said on a diggnation episode that the site is branching out into general news. It's not just technology anymore.
- Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Although the silo is designed to withstand nuclear blasts, such blasts have proven to be remarkably inept at turning door knobs, so that was what was used...
- modian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3These men need to be brought to responsibility!
- Tbro, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7But did they also find Uncle Scrooge's #1 dime?
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2equu, you could probably get $2.43 from the recycling plant :).
- equusdc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2..actually, it would be worth precisely $0.00. Old notes no longer exchangable for anything, except maybe if sold as novelties.
- NoThnMoreAB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3and the best article of all from this wondrous site!!
Man Detained for Raping Woman, 85, for Third Time
hahahahah!! crazy Russians! - leha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think this is dupe. There is nothing about this on russian newsites (respectable ones). The other thing is how the heck did they open the silo? The doors there are pretty thick a few feet thick to whithstand close nuclear blast. It is also stated that money blewup from the silo it means that they opened the lid. They should be supemen to open this lid which is a few meters thick. I have doubt that there is a way to open it manyally and if there is they know how to do this.
- 71M80, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Big chains, a few trucks, lock picking gear. use your imagination.
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The story is BS, but the photo is real. The photo was from a real invisibility cloak that worked by using a special reflective material onto which video was projected.
The idea behind the real cloack was to place a camera behind the "invisible" person, and project that image onto the person from the front, creating the effect seen in the picture. The applications are extremely limited, of course. - MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A saw a show with 60 year old nuns learning jujitsu, so that is plausible.
- teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why doesnt the article question where the money came from, who it belongs to, and wtf its doing there? I dont give a damn about the guys who broke into an old silo, the money is far more interesting.
- theundone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Plausible, yes, but just look at the wording of that particular article "Danila now also goes there to watch his mother training, but he is afraid to try karate himself."
- theundone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh my goodness that site is so fake. Funny but fake. Just read the one about the 50 year old mother taking karate training
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/03/03/motherkarate.shtml - veritech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Typhoon Class Sub, ^_^ i used to digg ships
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, US forces could open these silos with a crowbar... by the capitalist US forces would be detered by the money and leave the missle alone. That was at least the thought...
- Zippo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It was totally run by Russia's version of Scrooge McDuck.
Also, "money bills"? Strangest English I've seen in a while. What ever happened to just "bills", "money", or *gasp* "bank notes" - The_Wallbanger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think we can label this article "inaccurate".
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2DOH!
Anyone think Billly-G (Bill Gates) has a few silos like this? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1once I broke my silo by trying to stuff it in things. So I feel empathy for these guys.
- generalmx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Really, is this site for real? The images are all fake (but they tell you they're fake), and there's also an article about a patent for an "Invisibility Cloak":
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/01/25/capofdarkness.shtml - bigstinky, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Classic. Too funny. BTW, would somebody give theone3 a thumbs up for me, I accidentally hit the thumbs down. Sorry bout that.
- aurifex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gotta admit, that's probably the last place someone would look for a stash of soviet cash.
- tmibiker2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1!!! Some people have all the luck Alas not me :-(
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1
Ok I think I finally figured this site out. They have legitimate stories on the site, mixed in with the crazy ones. The punch line is you have to figure out whether or not it is real because of the abundance of legitimately crazy stories from Russia. - matt.rubin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lookin for metal :) lookin for metal looking for metal say hey hey hey (looks down silo) i got a dollar i got a dollar i got a dollar say hey hey hey oh ***** wind is picking up......
- EvilBadger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1was that a russian news site because there was no mention of where the money might have come from or what was done with it. Government stockpile to influence economy?
- b-dizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The incident would have remained secret, had the wind not blown hundreds of banknotes all over the countryside."
How awesome would that be, waking up and finding 20s all over your porch? - icexe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Russia has always struck me as a ***** hole.
- Guder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Gotta love the picture, yea. Not a picture of a land based silo which is meantioned in the article... and if there is construction equipment around it, would it been hard for the paper photographer to get a picture? Oh well maybe the editor had a sense of humor.
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