A Russian Scientist Stabbed His Coworker Who Kept Spoiling The Endings Of Books He Was Reading
Fox News- A scientist accused of attempted murder in Antarctica stabbed his colleague because “he was fed up with the man telling him the endings of books,” it has been claimed. Scientific engineer Sergey Savitsky, 55, became enraged and stabbed welder Oleg Beloguzov, 52, with a kitchen knife. It is believed to be the first time a man has been charged with attempted murder in Antarctica. The men had previously spent four harsh years at Russia’s isolated Bellingshausen station King George Island, part of the South Shetland island group. Russian investigators are probing a version of events in which both men became avid readers to pass the lonely hours in the remote facility. But Savitsky had become enraged that Beloguzov “kept telling his colleague the endings of books before he read them”.
A lot to take in here. First of all, it’s so much meaner to spoil a book for someone as opposed to spoiling a movie or a TV show. Movies and TV shows can be binged in a matter of hours and it takes zero effort to watch a TV show or a movie. You just sit there and let whatever’s on the screen pour into your face and brain. It literally takes the smallest amount of effort possible. That’s why streaming services are so popular. Books on the other hand are usually read over the course of days or even weeks and are a much larger investment. You have to use your brain to read thousands of letters and words and chapters. You have to use your imagination instead of having the images spoon fed to you. It’s a whole thing. Not to mention you have to physically flip the pages. So for this dude to be spoiling book endings is ruthless.
I picture the guy waiting until the dude was 90% done with each book and then springing the ending on him. Just outta nowhere. The book reader had to think it was an accident the first time but then realizing on the second one that he was doing it was on purpose. I also picture the spoiler finding out what book the guy was reading, going to Wikipedia to find out how the book ends and then plotting and scheming for the right moment. I kinda hope he kept getting more creative as it went along. Spoil by text message. Spoil by tweet. Spoil by putting it the ending in a urinal. Everything.
Bottomline, do I agree with the one guy stabbing the other guy for spoiling the books? Yeah I do for all the reasons I listed above. If the guy had been spoiling Netflix shows that’s one thing. Maybe you punch the guy in the face or beat him up a little. You don’t stab somebody over spoiling Stranger Things. Spoiling a book though? Multiple books? Yeah that’ll drive a man to attempt murder and I think it’s justified. You deserve a knife to the chest for that type of behavior.