A little Winter War Humour

This photo is from Saskatchewan on the reservation. Drunken fellow passed out in a snow bank and froze to death. My friend jumped out of a tree and hit his elbow on a large rock which turned out to be the back of someone's head. He stood him up on end to take a photo. True story.

5440fight said:
Here, a bit of winter war humour:
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plinker 777 said:
Just weird!? (not the post) Why would anyone take the time to pose a human being (even the enemy) in such a fashion? I'm assuming he wasn't doing a headstand when he froze to death, and rather someone found him and propped him up like this...(although it would have been before the last snowfall {no foot prints, just drifting snow}).

*edit* Does anyone recognize the uniform? I think that's a very large chest pocket visible under his overcoat (which appears well insulated, and he's wearing longjohn's...blackened heels and hand=frostbite?)
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Because its haunting. Anything that could cause psychological trauma to your enemy would work to your advantage.
 
smellie said:
@ TURBO_BIRD:

Might I recommend your reading up on the Battle of Stamford Bridge (25 September, 1066)?

King Harald Sigurdsson and jarl Tosti both were killed in the battle, as was Oeysteain Orri and nearly the entire Norwegian Army. The battlefield was WHITE with bleached bones 50 years after the battle.

Following the fight, Prince Olaf, who accompanied the Army but was guarding the Ships by his father's order, went to King Harold Godwinsson and begged for his father`s body.

King Harold gave the young man his father's body in return for a PLEDGE: Never again would Englishman and Norseman make war on one another.

The promise, from King Olaf Kyrre to King Harold Godwinsson, has been kept now for 948 years.

Thus ENDED the Viking Age.

BTW, much of the "Viking Age" raiding against England was STATE-SUPPORTED TERRORISM on the part of King Harald Bluetooth and his son, King Sven Forkbeard, the DANISH monarchs. It STOPPED, completely, when Knut Sveinsson became King of England. It had done its job. A major country had been kept in an expensive state of war-readiness for over 50 years...... at a cost to the aggressor of less than nothing.

It WORKED.

If WE are not careful, it will work AGAIN...... HERE.
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And again we are schooled by Smellie-the-Great! I hope to be able to read a tenth of what you know in my life time! Damned medical books took up many years of useful history and firearms learning...
Cheers
Dr.Oz
 
paisley70 said:
This photo is from Saskatchewan on the reservation. Drunken fellow passed out in a snow bank and froze to death. My friend jumped out of a tree and hit his elbow on a large rock which turned out to be the back of someone's head. He stood him up on end to take a photo. True story.
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Why did your friend post the photo on a Russian website?
 
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