Putin will spray rain clouds to guarantee sunshine for celebrations

[Robbo]

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he can guarantee sunshine for the St. Petersburg's 300th birthday celebrations by ordering the Russian air force to spray chemicals on rain clouds.

Ten planes will be kept ready for action in case rain clouds accumulate around the city, the Defence Ministry in Moscow confirmed.

The planes will then spray the undisclosed chemicals on the clouds to make them rain outside the city and spare the celebrations from disruption.

More than 50 world leaders including Tony Blair and President Bush are expected to attend the event that commemorates the founding of the city by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703.

Meanwhile, scores of gardeners in St Petersburg are said to be taking legal action after their allotments were scorched and gardening sheds burnt down to clean up the city before the VIPs arrive.

The plots were all on municipal land along Peterburgskoye Shosse, which runs past the new presidential residence at the Konstantinovsky Palace, in the Petrodvortsovy area, the St. Petersburg Times reported.

Gennady Lebedev, head of the Maintenance Committee of the Strelna Municipal Administration criticised local officials in the Petrodvortsovy District.

He said: "They basically ran ahead of the locomotive with what they did. We'd have to burn down half of Russia if we followed this reasoning."

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm...atestheadlines

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didn't the Russians offer us this ervice for Wimbledon a few years ago?
.....but the thought of spraying chemicals INTO rain clouds is the craziest thing I have heard of in ages LOL!

those crazy Russians hahahah

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_779751.html?menu=

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Scientists say vodka will ward off Sars

Russian scientists claim to have come up with a novel way of warding off Sars - a double shot of vodka.

Experts from the Medical Academy, in Moscow, believe the worldwide commotion over the virus is over-exaggerated.

Leading scientist Anatoli Vorobijev, from the department of microbiology and immunology, says the daily consumption of 10 centilitres of vodka should be enough to ward off the life-threatening epidemic.

Mr Vorobijev said the atypical pneumonia was "nothing special".

He said the flu virus took more lives than Sars and the death toll from normal pneumonia was about the same as that as Sars cases.

Vitali Sverjov, head of the Moscow Institute for Viral Research, also said the molecular method of diagnosing Sars through the polymerase chain reaction was "unreliable" and "prone to mistakes".

There are currently 25 suspected cases of Sars in Russia.


Story filed: 12:35 Tuesday 13th May 2003

well I guess I'll be safe then heheh

[Robbo]

Yeah m8, just heard on the news that 2 russians have died from vodka poisoning, At least the SARS never got em

[Morph]

yeah, spraying the rain clouds, isnt that how chernobyl got its claim to fame ??