Gumleaf
April 18th, 2008, 07:01 PM
Friday Apr 18 10:11 AEST
By ninemsn staff
A drunk Russian man rode home on a bus, slept like a log and ate breakfast before his wife alerted him to a 15cm knife in his back.
Yury Lyalin, 53, had been drinking the night before the grisly discovery, when his colleague — who had also been drinking — stabbed him during an argument at work.
But the kitchen knife went unnoticed until after Mr Lyalin awoke the next morning at work, took a bus home and helped himself to the fridge.
After Mr Lyalin's wife called the ambulance surgeon Viktor Belov treated the lucky electrician.
"By good fortune, it had gone through soft tissue without touching vital organs," he was quoted as saying in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
In a further bizarre element of the event, Mr Lyalin said he felt no resentment towards his knife-wielding colleague.
"We were drinking and what doesn't happen when you're drunk?" he said.
But a deputy prosecutor in the city of Vologda was not so sympathetic, saying the attacker faced a "severe punishment".
By ninemsn staff
A drunk Russian man rode home on a bus, slept like a log and ate breakfast before his wife alerted him to a 15cm knife in his back.
Yury Lyalin, 53, had been drinking the night before the grisly discovery, when his colleague — who had also been drinking — stabbed him during an argument at work.
But the kitchen knife went unnoticed until after Mr Lyalin awoke the next morning at work, took a bus home and helped himself to the fridge.
After Mr Lyalin's wife called the ambulance surgeon Viktor Belov treated the lucky electrician.
"By good fortune, it had gone through soft tissue without touching vital organs," he was quoted as saying in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
In a further bizarre element of the event, Mr Lyalin said he felt no resentment towards his knife-wielding colleague.
"We were drinking and what doesn't happen when you're drunk?" he said.
But a deputy prosecutor in the city of Vologda was not so sympathetic, saying the attacker faced a "severe punishment".