Lake disappears, baffling villagers (America Steals Lake from Village)

reuters.com ^ | 5/19/2005 | reuters

[blueminnesota]

Another malicious act by evil American imperialists against virtuous third-worlders!

[Minus_The_Bear]

Damn that evil BushHitler!

[robowombat]

Yes, and then we are going to come back for the moon as well.

[SAJ]

Silly woman. Doesn't she know that a camel's sitting on the lake, which is why she can't see it. Sheesh.

[Centurion2000]

"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.

Just think how the muslims are gonna freak when we steal the moon. Their demon-god won't have a place to live.

[ShadowAce]

Kinda like this disaster in 1980.

[American_Centurion]

"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman

It was "Team America" lady, get it right or we'll kick your commie butt! We needed the water to kick some terrorist butt!

[Hi Heels]

If I was a lake, I'd rather be in America. Maybe it just ran away from home......

[dighton]

I didn't do it. Nobody saw me. You can't prove anything.

[Lockbar]

[talleyman]

I didn't do it. Nobody saw me. You can't prove anything.

I believe you - can I have my pump back now?

[Mr. Mojo]

"The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev

Are the Russians conducting LSD experiments?

"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.

Yep....we're Americans, and we can do anything.

[sima_yi]

Woe! Lake be gone!

[lilylangtree]

Bush did it!

[frogjerk]

Kinda like this disaster in 1980

I was thinking the same thing.

This was on either TLC or Modern Marvels. It was so wacky and amazingly no one was killed in this disaster. I believe the current was so strong that it actually made the major river there flow in the opposite direction. Watching the videos of it is totally nutz!

[tnlibertarian]

while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.

Wouldn't those be former fishermen?

[Lockbar]

"Monty, we made that Russian lake disappear just like that!"

"Excellent, my boy, excellent!"

[TheForceOfOne]

I saw that on the History channel last night, the boats looked like toys in a bathtub getting sucked down the drain. It had to be quite a force to reverse the flow of the mighty Mississippi for any length of time.

[ArmedNReady]

Something like this happened in Louisiana years ago. An oil drilling rig in a large lake punched a hole through a salt dome, within minutes the lake was sucked into the dome, pulling in boats, houses, etc. Many people were fishing in the lake when this happened but I believe that all managed to escape.
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[Michael Barnes]