
Cossack insanity
Bored Russian in Brooklyn kills himself while playing Russian roulette in the snowstorm.
A 37-year-old man fatally shot himself in the head in Brooklyn Saturday night during a drunken game of Russian roulette, a law enforcement source said.
The victim, Zdzislaw Golabek, and a pal were playing the deadly game at about 8 p.m. at the height of the blizzard.
That’s hilarious, but poor Zdzislaw would doubtless have been dismayed to learn that the game, or at least its name, was probably coined by a Swiss pulp writer Georges Artur Surdez (1900-1949) Oh well.
Speaking of revolvers, have you heard the one about the Polack who, arriving home to discover his wife with with his best friend in the marital bed, pulls an enormous horse pistol from his pocket and points it at his own temple? When his wife and friend giggle, he warns, “don’t laugh – you’re next!”