Reports of Russian Road Roulette Surface

Need for Speed goes Public / fishki.net

By Zack Newmark
November 2, 2009 10:22 PM
Filed Under: Weird

At least five people were killed, and scores injured, playing "Russian Road Roulette" in Sofia, Bulgaria. The game is a variant of Chicken, with drivers blasting through red lights while trying to avoid other vehicles and pedestrians, reports British newspaper The Daily Telegraph.

Bulgarian news site The Standart claims that drivers roar through the intersections at up to 200 km/h (124 mph). Another variation has drivers approaching roundabouts and circling against traffic at high speed. Yet another version has drivers racing on Sofia's ring road.

According to press reports, bystanders and drivers bet on performance. Hitting the brakes, a pedestrian, vehicle, or an object results in a notch in the "loss" column.

Most of the drivers use SUVs, and are in their twenties. There are roughly fifty drivers believed to be involved.

Source: telegraph

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Comments

amhirst

November 2, 2009 10:40 PM

WTF is wrong with these people!!!!????

dmanero

November 2, 2009 10:43 PM

People like these morons that give tuners a bad name. Hopefully the innocent people survive and the drivers that cause this die a painfull death. Jail is too good for them.

EDavis

November 2, 2009 10:46 PM

This might cause Bulgaria to drop a few spots on the top ten list of romantic weekend getaways for under $700.

Seriously though, the people involved in this need to be exterminated. With a baseball bat.

ShinyG

November 3, 2009 12:44 AM

Like the local mafia and corrupt cops kept it off the list until now... Seriously now, these people need to be put away! Wait, I did mention the corrupt cops didn't I?

zdenda20

November 2, 2009 10:59 PM

Makes sense...young kids that have had everything they could dream of, so what else do u bet on? Money=u have, diamonds=u can buy...life is the only thing u can play for..

freeway

November 3, 2009 8:43 AM

yes, but they are betting on other people's lives

andrewB

November 2, 2009 11:24 PM

its kinda of copied from some of the car movies, fast and furious or other ones no one wonder people get killed with running through red lights and do those sort of things

67firebird454

November 3, 2009 12:05 AM

MasterA

November 3, 2009 12:43 AM

The whole story is bullsh*t. Yes there are races from redlight to redlight after midnight, but no wagers, roulettes in the incoming traffic and killed people. The cops know the routes and patrol the areas. There's no underground scene, 'cuz all the "young drivers with SUV's" are wasted in the chalga clubs. There's official drag and drifting leagues and all the serious drivers go there. Sure there always will be some punks with Golfs that burn some rubber, but this whole story was so 10 yrs ago. p.s. The pic is not even from Sofia (:

Edited by user on November 3, 2009 at 12:56 AM

freeway

November 3, 2009 8:47 AM

he, he... as I remember there is no smoke without fire, so... no more comments... PS: just maybe you're one of them trying to defend your way of life?

MasterA

November 3, 2009 11:12 AM

freeway, have you read trespasser's comments!? This is pure fictional and fabricated story. In 'the telegraph' the "taxi driver's" name is Rumen Georgiev (google says that he is a model). In the original story in Standart the alleged taxi driver is Ivan Dragomirov. What's with the name change? This "smoke" was just over the internet and all the auto-forums here in Bulgaria laughted out hard at it. Where's the fire? Why no news about the alleged accidents on the TV networks? I was expecting this to go on The Onion News Channel, but not here. And you think I'm one of racers? Sad.

Edited by user on November 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM

trespasser

November 3, 2009 1:03 AM

This is one of the biggest hoax in bulgaria's media lately. The first few days there were a lot of topics around the auto-forums. Nothing came out. Than the idea of a pure fictional story became more and more popular. Now it's pretty obvious. There's not even one person that saw this "Russion Road Roulette". And most of these people are street racers that practice only during night hours. Bottom line - don't believe everything you read/hear.

Edited by user on November 3, 2009 at 1:04 AM

Aesthetics

November 3, 2009 2:57 AM

just buy the game....you dont have to use real maps, real cars and real people

Murcielago2006

November 3, 2009 5:38 AM

WTF?? That's the dumbest game I've ever heard of!

Dolomight 74-86

November 3, 2009 6:15 AM

This story is pure B.S. EPIC MEDIA FAIL!!! Even if these people are nobility rich they wouldn't do something this stupid in an organized fashion no matter how wasted they are. This sh*t is a hoax to make street racers look worse than they probably are. Although some of them are seriously a-holes.

carbonfibreguy

November 3, 2009 7:05 AM

Most, (if not all) street racers (at least in my area) are ricers who put their huge a$$ carboard DIY spoilers in hopes of being able to overtake a motorcycle one day...sad people.

carbonfibreguy

November 3, 2009 7:04 AM

Over a game of Chicken. NFS fail.

Gope1o

November 3, 2009 10:15 AM

I am from Bulgaria and this is not true!This is bullsh*ts by bulgarian media!I know what's going on the roads and this is fantastic story by our F$%KING MEDIA!!! PEACE!!!

trespasser

November 3, 2009 10:29 AM

I'm not talking about some teen kids with dad's car, or Civic for $1000. Once more - use common sense. There's not even 1 reported accident regarding this. Sci-Fi all the way.

madofmazda

November 3, 2009 11:31 AM

What are those guys trying to impress??!

Razz

November 3, 2009 11:48 AM

Don't panic people, in short time they will all die, and the problem will be solved !

serraxtrem

November 3, 2009 12:17 PM

I hope so ...

asuscanon

November 3, 2009 1:33 PM

And you dickhead may first read, then comment! Another dull american jackass!

asuscanon

November 3, 2009 1:30 PM

This stuff first came out from one of journo's dumbass minds. There is no such thing as going with 120mph in the wrong way. Its all in one guy's sick mind for the wish of being popular in one of the Bulgarians newspapers!

asuscanon

November 3, 2009 1:32 PM

That's all, the rest is interpretation and making it more colorful. Of course there are streetracing, but its done like everywhere else in the world.

lefterov

November 3, 2009 3:07 PM

why not true,here in the balkan(Macedonia,Bulgaria,Serbia,Croatia)are all insane including me.You all live in a dream world here is the real world.

trespasser

November 4, 2009 2:32 AM

what does this mean? "why not true" - you have to be uber stupid to believe a joke like that. and "you all live in a dream world" - man get real. i think you need to change your dealer asap.

resorte85

November 4, 2009 1:33 AM

Las picadas ilegales son de mi desagrado, pero atacar con un vehículo a peatones me parece una falta de honor total.

Espero esta moda no llegue a la Argentina.

fusion01

November 5, 2009 7:29 PM

I'd get my car reinforced. Get good deals in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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