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OK, this is a true story guys, I swear. It can only be real anyway, one could not invent it. I just translate the news agency report:
A wedding in Balahna town near Nizhny Novgorod (this is in Russia) ended up tragically. A photographer was beaten by the groom and guests who did not like his white balance settings. (I kid you not)
He was taken to hospital with a neck injury and multiple bruises.
According to witnesses, one of the guests (smart ass!) looked at the photographer's camera screen during the outdoor shooting on the banks of the Volga River and expressed his dissatisfaction with the WB setting.
The groom asked the photographer to show the images. After the photographer refused to do it, the groom kicked him in the leg and grabbed his camera. The photographer, exasperated, tried to resist, but was subjected to a barrage of relentless slapping from customers.
After a brief beating, his head was squeezed between tripod legs and under the scornful hoots the guy was thrown into the Volga. ( Depending on location Volga River can be easily several miles wide. The widest part is 16 miles wide, believe it or not. It is a huge river with some hazardous streams, so it is not big fun.)
Photographer was saved by a Tajik immigrant (Tajikistan is a small poor Asian country, formerly part of the USSR), who was diving nearby, gathering shells.
The groom and the guests were charged under the Criminal Code article 282 for assault and group humiliation.
The Tajik guy was expelled from Russia due to lack of registration papers.
The photographer (and this is an icing on the whole fuc4ing cake) was fined for illegal business as well as for taking pictures of the river port which happened to be a "strategic object".
A wedding in Balahna town near Nizhny Novgorod (this is in Russia) ended up tragically. A photographer was beaten by the groom and guests who did not like his white balance settings. (I kid you not)
He was taken to hospital with a neck injury and multiple bruises.
According to witnesses, one of the guests (smart ass!) looked at the photographer's camera screen during the outdoor shooting on the banks of the Volga River and expressed his dissatisfaction with the WB setting.
The groom asked the photographer to show the images. After the photographer refused to do it, the groom kicked him in the leg and grabbed his camera. The photographer, exasperated, tried to resist, but was subjected to a barrage of relentless slapping from customers.
After a brief beating, his head was squeezed between tripod legs and under the scornful hoots the guy was thrown into the Volga. ( Depending on location Volga River can be easily several miles wide. The widest part is 16 miles wide, believe it or not. It is a huge river with some hazardous streams, so it is not big fun.)
Photographer was saved by a Tajik immigrant (Tajikistan is a small poor Asian country, formerly part of the USSR), who was diving nearby, gathering shells.
The groom and the guests were charged under the Criminal Code article 282 for assault and group humiliation.
The Tajik guy was expelled from Russia due to lack of registration papers.
The photographer (and this is an icing on the whole fuc4ing cake) was fined for illegal business as well as for taking pictures of the river port which happened to be a "strategic object".
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