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Victory Day

Yesterday was Victory Day and pretty much Kyrgyzstan was rocking out. At 11 am I went out in town and everyone was wearing their best clothes, strutting their stuff, and a majority were drunk in the park. I was walking down Main Street and saw a 15-year-old Kyrgyz guy just disappear. I did a double take and now four more men were standing around where he had poofed into thin air. I couldn’t wrap my mind around it. Walking closer, I saw a manhole and two hands reaching up. The man grabbed him, yanked him back up, and everyone was on their way. The guy had just fallen into a six-foot hole, shook it off and walked away.

This is the third person I have seen fall in a manhole in the last year. Pretty much people steal the manhole covers and melt them down for other things. Since there is a weak/nonexistent governmental infrastructure, no one has money/no one in power cares enough to buy new ones so there are just holes to dodge in the sidewalks and roads. People/dogs/trash fall in and are pulled out if anyone cares. After a storm is the worst because you really never know what is under a snowdrift. Just makes me laugh to think of the legal case that would cause in the US.