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Shepherd Sues Russian Space Agency For Dropped Rocket Debris

Boris Urmatov, a Russian shepherd, is claiming $42,000 (that's one million roubles) from Roskosmos for dropping a 10-foot-long chunk of rocket in his yard. Apparently it just missed his outdoor toilet— we're hoping he wasn't in there at the time. The poor chap's village in the Altai region lies beneath the flight path of rockets launched from the Cosmodrome at Baikonur, so he may actually have a case. The space agency seems relaxed about it all: according to a spokesman "They fly, they fall, they fly, they fall. It's how they work." More »

12:06 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,455 views, 19 comments

Latest by Bokusatsu_Tenshi: After that military drunk-driving-russian-tank-demolishes -your-house case, I think Boris will be lucky if the Russian Space Agency don't just laugh at his face and drop even more rocket droppings on his property just for fun... more »