Video footage has emerged on 'social' media showing desperate motorists brawling in queues at petrol stations across Russia as Vladimir Putin was forced to acknowledge the country is facing shortages.
In Moscow, two women waiting in a queue were filmed screaming at each other after one accused the other of cutting in line. 'Fuck you! I'll smash your face in!' one of them shouts. Another video (above) from the western city of Ryazan shows two men engaging in an intense slugfest at a gas station until somebody was finally able to break it up.
In a third video, filmed in the town of Serov, a woman is seen with a bloodied nose after a man allegedly punched her and violently attacked both her and her girlfriend during a fight over fuel.
It comes as Putin acknowledged that the country was suffering from 'a certain shortage' of fuel in an interview published by the Kremlin Sunday, after repeated Ukrainian strikes in their four-year war. 'As for strikes against critical infrastructure in general, and energy infrastructure in particular, of course these attacks on our infrastructure facilities create problems, that's obvious,' said Putin. 'Right now we're observing a certain shortage, but it's not critical.'
Kinda reminds me of back in the Carter days when guys were fighting left and right about gas lines back in Jersey.
Ahhh - the good old days...
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I was in Jersey in '73 and '74 waiting in line for gas. My wife-to-be was in Atlanta where the only change was that the gas stations closed on Sunday.
ReplyDeletePeople in commiefornia are paying $7 a gal and letting politicians get away with it. I'd like to see some fights.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Baltimore in the Carter utopian era. The gas stations could sell only $3 of gas, and the station had to have a guy doing the pumping to be sure. You'd get it according to the last number, odd or even, on your license plate. Odd numbers had it great in months with 31 days. Get some on the 31st and the next day on the 1st. I recall scams where some guy would go down the very long line of cars giving out chits for the $3 to "speed up the line" once you got to the pump. Where, of course, the guy at the pump knew nothing about it. We gripe about the high cost, but at least the supply is good. "He hates these cans. Stay away from the cans."
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