Via Neeka’s Backlog comes yet another reason not to cross provodniki, the (usually female) conductor/caretakers on Russian trains:
when provodniki manage to catch a thief, they gather together, five of them or so, and break the poor guy’s fingers – with a door, on both hands, just like that, thus forcing him into early retirement. This may sound too brutal – and remindful of the Islamic prescription to chop off the thief’s hands – but they really have no choice: provodniki are risking their miserable jobs if the thefts continue, while the police are better off not doing anything about it.
Ouch.
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