Stand up, hook up … Somebody grab Alexi!

“City governments across Russia drained the water from municipal fountains Thursday, hoping to keep drunken paratroopers from drowning in them.

“Aug. 2 is Paratrooper Day in Russia and every year more than one million burly active and retired soldiers take to the streets in their signature blue berets and striped undershirts to mark the occasion, often by combining large quantities of vodka with plunges into fountains.”

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/russia-drains-fountains-for-drunken-paratroopers/article4459405/

(Russian airborne? Did they ever do anything? Other than drink themselves senseless.)

Also at fark.