I got this one while searching Pravda for Russian gambling news. It’s a keeper. From FunReports:
The police department of the Russian city of Ulyanovsk obtained information about an attack that a group of criminals was going to commit against a local business woman. The police decided to arrest the gangsters in the woman’s apartment, but the 27-year-old lady was supposed to be replaced with a completely different person of opposite sex.
A female police officer would not be good to suit the role of a stool pigeon: the criminals were too dangerous. A man dressed up as a woman was supposed to become the main hero of the risky story. Officer Igor Selendeyev, a fine shooter and a very good judo wrestler, was chosen for the unusual role. His colleagues borrowed makeup and a wig for the officer from a local theater. When other men in the department saw their pal dressed up as a woman with lipstick on, they could not stop laughing: Igor looked very pretty and even sexy.
Officer Igor Selendev had to shave his face three times in a row not to leave the slightest trace of stubble. The man put on a night gown to create the image of a relaxed housewife at night. There was a flak jacket underneath the gown, though.
The bandits knocked on the door at about midnight: “Open up, we got documents here to give you!” When the trans-officer opened the door, he saw two masked men: “Just one sound bitch and you will be dead. We need money.” The “frightened lady” begged the burglars not to kill her. The next instant the “lady” knocked one of the criminals down and made the other one kiss the floor too. The police hurried to help from another room of the flat, but the thieves were resting on the floor handcuffed and unconscious.
Police officer dresses as a sexy housewife to save woman from burglars
Now that’s good reporting. I just picture the “sexy housewife” shouting “Kiss the floor, scumbag,” and going all Fedor on him.
Pravda’s Fun Reports has some really interesting stuff. For example, did you know that:
The payment Nike gave to Michael Jordan exceeds the payments the company made to all of its workers in Malaysia.
35 percent of those who post marriage ads are already married.
Duck quacking produces no echo and nobody knows why.
The human body-build does not let us lick the elbow.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first American President who had all of the letters of the word “criminal” in his name. William Jefferson Clinton was the second.
US citizens eat 18 hectares of pizza every day.
I don’t know of any American news agency that would use the term “fierce pet lover” in the same context as Pravda (you can Google that one if you’re curious), which makes the Russian website a necessary supplement to the usual news.