Death Porn Special: Faces Of Chuvash Death

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Death Porn Special: Faces Of Chuvash Death

By the Death Porn Bureau via Moscow Stringer

If you’ve ever been in Russia, you’ve no doubt seen the token dead-drunk man, barely stumbling home from work in the middle of winter. You probably thought to yourself: What happens if that guy falls and passes out? Well, here’s your answer: they go on light freeze and emerge with the first thaw.

Check out the Google translation of the Chuvash Interior Ministry’s “Unidentified Corpses” page. But the faces themselves speak the international language of death.

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1. Kurt | January 29th, 2009 at 8:38 am
I like the ones where they don’t even seem dead… just a little drunk.
2. LionKK | January 30th, 2009 at 7:19 am
Guys, MT is stealing your limelight, they have a Crime Watch Blog ver reminiscent of Death Porn – of course using less slang
3. steve | January 30th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Same thing happens here in Detroit. We need a Death Porn American edition:
“He’s encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks,” the caller phoned to tell this reporter.
“Why didn’t your friend call the police?”
“He was trespassing and didn’t want to get in trouble,” the caller replied. As it happens, the caller’s friend is an urban explorer who gets thrills rummaging through and photographing the ruins of Detroit. It turns out that this explorer last week was playing hockey with a group of other explorers on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, the explorer said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.
4. Ilya | January 30th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Woah, the guy with the blackened face is really fucking hideous.
5. geo8rge | January 31st, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Link to detroit story legs sticking out from ice are 0:57 through the clip
Detroit: Man frozen in block of ice in abandoned warehouse!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BnIA4fQcYI
6. TheKlink | January 31st, 2009 at 1:36 pm
RE: 3. steve
Nothing wrong with that as far as I can see, It’s not like the guy was “dying”, i.e; in need of assistance. He was already dead, nothing to be done for him.