“Russian Rambo” Action

Regardless of their politics, I love to read stories about odd folks living off the grid and avoiding all “imperial entanglements.” I remember a story years ago about how some dude avoided paying alimony by living in a system of caves and bunkers he had built out on his property. Seems like paying the alimony would have been a less-complicated affair, but maybe he was a hell of a digger.

There was a recent story published about how a “Russian Rambo” was living all Swiss-Family-Robinson style in the woods outside Moscow and wreaking havoc on vacationers and other folks who ventured too close to his lair.

‘Russian Rambo’ dies in forest shootout

A MAN dubbed the “Russian Rambo” was killed in a shootout after terrorising the elite police taskforce which tried to flush him out of his forest home.

Alexander Bichkov – known only as “Rambo” until police discovered his real name after his death – had spent 20 years living in a nature reserve while terrifying locals and authorities who dared enter his wilderness, the Daily Mail reported.

According to the Mail, the 200cm tall Russian was hunted down by a team of six specialist police officers after government officials in Moscow became fed up with local police.

But after the crack team discovered Bichkov’s shack on March 14 in the Kostrama region (about 725km east of Moscow) and called in an additional four armed forestry officials to help with his capture, “Rambo” lept into action.

Armed with two shotguns and a pistol, Bichkov shot three of his hunters in an ambush before starting a series of fires around the forest to confuse those hunting him as to his whereabouts.

He then began tracking the team and police believed he was preparing to launch another offensive before a police sniper shot him in the head.

More.

Since I am American – and don’t know crap about the metric system – I have provided a handy graphic to show what exactly 200 centimeters looks like . . . I guess.

Once again driving home the old adage that it isn’t the size of the man in the fight, but the number of Russians who are pursuing him that makes all of the difference.