“ One man made a last-ditch attempt to escape the enlistment office in Blagoveshchensk by leaping out of a first-floor window.”
FIRST FLOOR WINDOW? Not much a leap. Not paratrooper material, it seems.
What we call the first floor, they call the ground floor. What they call the first floor, we call the second floor. Not splattering height, but you could easily break an ankle.
That’s an example of the mindless hyperbole produced by The Sun, The Daily Mail & The Guardian. I guess they didn’t proofread the story before pushing “print.” 🤣