Posted on 03/22/2007 2:57:54 AM PDT by Daffynition
A scantily clad, 32-year-old man was found dead early Monday in a pool of blood in an owl cage at the Moscow Zoo.
A bird keeper at the zoo found the man, Alexander Luparev at about 10 a.m., lying in the cage, which is home to a Siberina long-tailed tawny owl.
Luparev, who fixed gas pipes for a living, was wearing only boxer shorts.
Vladimir Zdorenko, deputy prosecutor at the Presnenskaya interdistrict prosecutor's office, said it was not clear what killed the man --‑blood loss from a blow to the head, or freezing to death.
Luparev's clothes were strewn across the concrete base of the cage. Also found were his documents, an undisclosed amount of money, and a half-empty, one-liter bottle of vodka.
Sometime after midnight, Luparev climbed the gates of the staff entrance of the zoo, which is on Krasnaya Presnya Ulitsa, opposite the Krasnopresnenskaya metro station, prosecutors believe.
Luparev is believed to have been drunk.
He then made his way through the zoo and entered the unlocked owl cage via an unguarded staff entrance. That part of the zoo is not open to visitors. The owl is moved to a display cage during the summer.
At this point, no one quite knows what happened. Luparev apparently hit his head on the ground -- possibly following an altercation with the owl -- and fell unconscious.
He is believed to have died between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. The owl, which flew out of its cage after the incident, was found perched in a tree next door to the zoo Tuesday evening.
"The owl is still in a state of shock," zoo spokeswoman Natalya Istratova said Wednesday. She added that the owl was not eating or drinking and that she feared for its life.
Istratova declined to name the bird keeper who found Luparev. "She hasn't stopped crying," she said.
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Removing one's clothes is usually a sign in cocaine deaths; however, this case sounds like he got drunk and was looking for the bathroom.
The man was drunk. So what? He lived in Moscow, after all!
Ok, it´s not clear WHAT killed the man, but we sure know WHO killed him. Here are the TOP FIVE:
5. Russian Mafia
4. Kremlin
3. His wife
2. President Bush
and the number one killer is:
Lee Harvey Oswald!
I'd be upset too if a drunk stumbled into my house and stripped down.
Who?
HAHAHA! Perfect!
Colonel Mustard, in the owl cage with a Vodka bottle.
Now that's a pretty pessimistic phrase ...any good vodka drinker worth his salt knows that the bottle was half full.
LOL .... Security cameras could have caught it ... then we'd be seeing it on YouTube by now.
strange ping
"Luparev is believed to have been drunk."
Does anyone have that Captain Obvious graphic. I mean, who knew that Sherlock Holmes was alive and well and working in Moscow?
Man Found Dead Drunk, Naked Inside Owl Cage
Big deal. The Mrs. finds me that way every morning.
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
That would be a hell of a thing to wake up and have to read every day.
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