Today’s Overheated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Two Russian men died in a sauna after jumping into a plunge pool that had accidentally been heated to boiling point. The two men jumped into the pool to cool down after sweating in a steam room. A third man tried to save the victims but was unable to pull the men out of the boiling water. The two men’s bodies were discovered in the sauna in the city of Kirov in central Russia on February 18, 2010 and “their death was caused by overheating”, the Kirov regional investigative committee confirmed in a statement. The water in the pool was “overheated due to an error by one of the victims,” investigators said. Saunas usually include a cold plunge pool. The men were named by investigators as the director of an old people’s home and the director of a residential home for people with psychiatric problems.
Culled from: Herald Sun
Now I wonder if they threw some vegetables in there. That would’ve been a good stew!
Those Russians certainly have a gift for understatement. “Death by overheating.” More like boiling alive.
I wonder if alcohol played any part here. I have seen on TV how Russians like to drink vodka in their saunas. And alcohol might have kept them from registering the steam rising from the plunge pool.
Sounds kind of like those old cartoons where they had the cannibals heating up a big old cauldron…
Just add some potatoes, turnips and beets and have your very own hearty Soup a la Russe!