The panic and confusion that followed Friday's meteorite crash quickly gave way to typical Russian black humor and entrepreneurial instincts.
Several people smashed in the windows of their houses in the hopes of receiving compensation, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Others quickly took to the Internet and put what they said were meteorite fragments up for sale.
One of the most popular jokes was that the meteorite was supposed to fall on Dec. 21 last year -- when many believed the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world -- but was delivered late by Russia's notoriously inefficient postal service.
a day or 2 ago I heard about it on Fox News, and an hour later Russia told Fox something like the USA didn't mean to do it but it was a weapons test. And "nothing can fall out of the sky."
I just thought that was funny.
I wonder what Russia has done to offend the celestial beings - they got hit in 1908 as well!
EDIT date!!
[Edited on 19-2-2013 by DaveK]
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Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. - Bob Newhart
Hell is being in a pure platinum asteroid field... with a diamond mining beam