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Why the Expression ‘Drunk Tank’ Doesn’t Translate Easily Into Russian
Getting thrown in the drunk tank is one thing, but getting drunk in a tank and plowing into a house, as one Russian serviceman did, is something else entirely.
A Russian tank crashed through a villager’s house after the crew stopped to buy more vodka at a nearby shop.
Footage from a mobile phone camera showed the tank hitting a corner of the house and a laughing, and apparently drunk, driver awkwardly trying to clamber aboard with two bottles of vodka.
In other vodka news, singer Amy Winehouse — who’s become a one-woman cottage industry for this blog — snorted flaming vodka at a London club the other night. Though I’d never admit it, my friends and I preferred (no kidding) to snort non-flaming, off-label rum and tequila during college.
