Bomb blows hole in Lenin Statue (vandals give Lenin a second hole)

BBC ^ | 1st April | BBC

[propertius]

One of Russia's most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.

The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin's coat. No-one was hurt in the attack, the motive for which was unknown.

The statue, outside the Finland Station, marks the Bolshevik leader's return from exile in April 1917.

"Today at 0430 [0030 GMT] there was an explosion at the Lenin monument at the Finland Station in the city centre," a spokesman for the Saint Petersburg branch of the Russian emergency situations ministry told the AFP news agency.

[propertius]

Best April Fools' Say stunt yet... (and completely true -- check out the hysterical picture). Oh the indignity!

[rabscuttle385]

LOL

[Constitution Day]

LMAO!

[fieldmarshaldj]

Just heartbreaking.

[Constitution Day]

LMAO! I always knew Commies were full of hot air, but this blowout is a little much!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LOL! Great!

[Lorica]

Is the BBC playing an April Fool’s joke? Or is this really true?

Either way - ROFL, and a great candidate for “Caption this Photo”.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Tore him a new one they did!

[PzLdr]

Now THAT’S Socialist Realism! Lenin has always been a larger than life AS*HOLE!

[ArrogantBustard]

PWN3D

[Disambiguator]

Now someone in Seattle needs to do the same thing.

[WildcatClan]

LOL! The article said, ‘his coat’. He blowed up real good.

[bgill]

Someone pulled his finger.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

He looks like a flasher from behind.

[sniper63]

A fitting Icon for world Socialism. All will take it in the rear and like it.

[ArrogantBustard]

It looks like they put a shaped charge on the front of the statue ... and blew it out his @$$.

[SantosLHalper]

Just big enough for Obama’s head.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=Bar-Room%20Ballads&Poem=18

The Ballad of Lenin’s Tomb

And there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign,
And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine;
And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay;
And there he sleeps and calm he keeps his watch and ward for aye.
Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closely at his phiz,
So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is.
They tell you he’s a mummy - don’t you make that bright mistake:
I tell you - he’s a dummy; aye, a fiction and a fake.

[1rudeboy]

Drunken Balts at it again. ;)

[Hegemony Cricket]

[Boucheau]

It would seem that 0bama is not the only leftist with a “righteous wind” at his back.

[CORedneck]

LMAO :)

He really blew it out of his @$$ !

[andy58-in-nh]

So at least for the moment, somewhere in the world there's a bigger socialist a$$hole than Obama.

[NavyCanDo]

There's still the one in Seattle.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/9056

Seattle's Freemont neighborhood would riot if someone did this to their prized statue.

[Roger_Wildcat]

How the hell was someone able to get up there and pull off a prank like that?

[GeronL]

The Bloody Rectum Debris littered the entire block

[SueRae]

rofl. Great comment.

[bmwcyle]

Bring new meaning to:

Blow out your butt.

[al baby]

Brings new meaning to the phrase Blow it out your ass

[RetiredArmy]

Big time fart I would say!

[WildcatClan]

Yes, lol. That happens in Seattle, some bum will have moved in less than 5 minutes after the explosion. Send my check to Lenin’s a$$. :)

[A_Former_Democrat]

Wow, Vlady must have the fetish for hung homosexuals

[propertius]

LMAO!

Quite literally...

[COBOL2Java]

The Bloody Rectum Debris littered the entire block

Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!

[SolidWood]

[Toddsterpatriot]

Some of my favorite people are drunken Balts.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I wish this would have happened...

[NavyCanDo]

Best post I have seen in a long time. I can sense the story is being passed to thousands via e-mail this very minute.

[ponygirl]

Just big enough for Obama’s head.

LOL! Bonus points for you.

[Constitution Day]

Indeed!

[Obadiah]

Is there a statue of Obama somewhere?

[AlanGreenSpam]

“(vandals give Lenin a second hole)”

Great joke!!!

[HonestConservative]

LMAO!

I so needed that.

Perfect comment.

I don’t know if the ears won’t be the hold up.

[MamaTexan]

Oh the indignity!

I wonder if a monkey flew out?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

[RJL]

It looks like Cosmo Kramer fed him too much Beefarino.

[thethirddegree]

Looks like the work of Barney Frank.

[Axenolith]

I bet you were wondering if you’d EVER get to use that term again ;-)

[Uncle Miltie]

“Hey Lenin! Blow it out your a**!”

[bamahead]

Statue of A-hole gets a new one alert!