A rather strange case from Pravda (the Russian one, not the BBC) concerning fighting kids and a dead passer-by.

Probably fairly standard fayre these days unfortunately, but in this case not only have the police arrested the kids involved (probably something to do with them being from Russia – police here are too busy annoying photographers and other easy targets of course) there is a rather alarming video of the incident.

From the report :

According to the online agency, a 15-year-old high school student Darya and a 16-year-old student of a professional school Eric, in the heat of a fight, threw a car tire form the balcony of the 11th floor, which bounced off the ground and killed a 44-yearold resident of the neighboring house Victor Gubin, who was coming back from a grocery store. Gubin was taken to the Alexandrovsky Hospital with a closed craniocerebral trauma, extreme brain contusion and a fractured jaw. He died there the next morning.

According to the guy, he was fighting with his girlfriend and to blow off steam he threw the wheel from the balcony without looking down, said a source in law enforcement. The teenagers were easily identified from the video recordings of surveillance cameras installed in the building.

Blowing off steam and throwing a car tyre (including rim) off an 11th floor balcony don’t seem quite in the same league to me. The dead pedestrian was also damned unlucky to be caught by the bounce although it could very easily have hit him square on the head in the first place.

And if you want to know what happens when you get hit by a bouncing tyre thrown from 11 floors up then watch the video below – not recommended viewing for the squeamish or anyone who regularly walks past blocks of flats for that matter.
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