An excerpt from a wedding video airing on NTV television shows a man addressing the groom, then whipping out a pistol, pointing it to his head and pulling the trigger with a click.
The man gives the gun to another man who then shoots himself in the temple and falls to the ground.
The Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Tuesday that the victim in the December incident was hospitalized with a severe head wound. It says the man who gave him the gun has been charged with hooliganism.
The origins of Russian roulette are not clear, but Czarist-era officers are believed to have taken chances with revolvers that held one bullet.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100324/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_russian_roulette
Only in Russia can you be charged for hooliganism :P. My husband still tends to use the word hooligan in English, I think it makes him sound like a little old man.
ReplyDeletemy son loves to use the word as a verb. He likes to hooliganit!
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