Video of Parasailing Donkey Less LOL-y Than Expected

July 20, 2010 - Humor

Today, Yakov Smirnoff is rolling in his grave. (He’s dead, right? Obvs.) That’s because his motherland of Russia has gone above on beyond the reaches of your run of the mill animal cruelty, this time strapping a parachute to a donkey and forcing it to parasail over a Russian beach for close to 30 minutes. Russia is like the Christopher Nolan of animal cruelty, in that love it or hate it, you have to admit it’s pretty genius.
And perhaps no other group of sentences in the history of words better explains why we’ll probably be visiting Russia sometime soon:
Stunned beachgoers said the animal had brayed in fear as it whistled through the air, causing children to burst into tears. Others calmly filmed the event on their mobile phones.
“This is a little town and we all know that donkey well,” one local woman told reporters.
What a country!!
Wait, hold on. No. We just caught video of the parasailing donkey. Major update: No LOLs to be found!! It’s actually scary and sad. If you want to turn your frown 360 degrees around, click ahead and watch the video courtesy of the Associated Press.

We bray he’s alright. Poor thing.

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