Name: Anonymous 2014-02-03 0:13
Russian man killed for preferring prose to poetry
History is littered with literary giants who have a taste for alcohol, and in Russia the combination of booze and prose recently turned lethal.
A former teacher killed his friend after a drunken argument over whether poetry or prose is superior, investigators in the Sverdlovsk region said on Wednesday.
The dispute ended with the 53-year-old admirer of poetry killing his 67-year-old opponent with a knife on Jan 20.
The suspect fled his home and hid at a friend's house in a nearby village before he was found and detained.
This killing came just four months after an argument over the theories of 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant ended in a man being shot in a grocery store in southern Russia. - Reuters.
History is littered with literary giants who have a taste for alcohol, and in Russia the combination of booze and prose recently turned lethal.
A former teacher killed his friend after a drunken argument over whether poetry or prose is superior, investigators in the Sverdlovsk region said on Wednesday.
The dispute ended with the 53-year-old admirer of poetry killing his 67-year-old opponent with a knife on Jan 20.
The suspect fled his home and hid at a friend's house in a nearby village before he was found and detained.
This killing came just four months after an argument over the theories of 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant ended in a man being shot in a grocery store in southern Russia. - Reuters.