Posted on 02/08/2014 5:07:52 PM PST by JoeProBono
SOCHI, Russia, A Minnesota businessman says he hopes to alleviate one of the many pains in the neck to surface at the Sochi Olympics -- a shortage of pillows for athletes.
Mike Lindell, founder and chief executive officer of My Pillow, said he had heard rumblings of the shortage and was even called by a Chicago radio station, asking if his company would intervene.
Lindell agreed and has readied a shipment of 3,000 pillows to be sent via FedEx to Sochi, the (Minneapolis) Star-Tribune reported Saturday.
The only problem -- he doesn't know where to send them.
Multiple shipping addresses have been offered and he's heard Russian officials are stopping shipments headed for the games.
The pillow shortage became public when Russian citizens were told by government officials they would take people's pillows and give them to athletes and international media staying at the Olympic village.
Complaints have poured in since people began arriving in Russia this week of shabby hotel accommodations, poor logistical planning and even a missing Olympic ring that malfunctioned during Friday's opening ceremony.
LOL.
All your pillow are belong to us, comrade!
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Can’t they roll up their towels to make a pillow?
Fold clothes into a nice rectangular shape and use that as a pillow.
Why didn’t they bring their own pillows?
God only knows who previously drooled on a previously used pillow.
the cheapest advertizing he'll ever get... and prolly a tax write off to boot
I knew that if an appropriate picture exists, you will bring it here. Thanks for that one...Putie Poot on a Pillow!
How comforting that must be to the athletes to know their pillows were previously used by the locals.
“Just use block of ice like Russian, tovarich...”
"The pillow shortage became public when Russian citizens were told by government officials they would take people's pillows and give them to athletes"
How many of us would let the government take our pillows?
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ROTFLOL!
“The pillow shortage became public when Russian citizens were told by government officials they would take people’s pillows and give them to athletes and international media staying at the Olympic village.”
The US and even international media is doing all they can to make Russia and especially Putin look bad during the Olympics, by even going as far as to announce to the world that Putin wanted to take people’s pillows away.
I bet the Brazil games are going to be even more of a cluster than Sochi.
But Brazil isn’t a white country, and it is “Gay Friendly”, so they will get a pass.
I did not take all the news of poor situation of Sochi from the media attending so much as complaining from overly preened media types but more a indication of where interior Russia is these days.
They have had nearly a decade and $50 billion bucks to get ready and they just couldn’t quite pull it off. That’s pathetic. Russia is the Mexico of Europe....with nukes.
Putin shorted the sheets!
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