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“Things happen when you drink.” Well said.

Drunk Russian sleeps off stabbing
www.telegraph.co.uk  |  By Natalie Paris  |  Last Updated: 11:59am BST 18/04/2008

A Russian man was struggling to remember a night of heavy drinking after waking to find a knife in his back.

Vodka drinker Yuri Lyalin, 53, was woken by his wife the next morning with not only a hangover but a six-inch blade between his shoulders.

Mr Lyalin managed to take a bus home, eat his breakfast and then fall into a deep sleep without realising he had been stabbed by his drinking partner.
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It wasn’t until his wife spotted the protruding handle and woke him, that an ambulance was called and he was taken to casualty.

Mr Lyalin, an electrician, had reportedly been drinking with a watchman at a factory in Vologda where he works.

It appears that the pair had an argument at some point before Mr Lyalin passed out.

The next morning when Mr Lyalin tried to resume his duties he was sent home for being inebriated.

None of his co-workers noticed the knife.

He then took a meandering course home, stopping to eat some sausage from his fridge before sleeping it off, according to Russian newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda and Gazeta.

His doctor, Victor Belov, said the knife “went into soft tissue and by pure luck did not touch any vital organs,” Komsomolskaya Pravda reported.

Mr Lyalin himself was philosophical about the incident.

“We got drunk together,” he said. “Things happen when you drink.”