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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAll because of a sausage??
Speaking for the first time about his ordeal, mine worker Michael McFeat said weapon-wielding thugs tried to run him off the road as he fled the former Soviet country in fear for his life.
The 39-year-old sparked a diplomatic incident when he compared the chuchuk sausage a hugely popular local delicacy to a horses private parts.
His co-workers at the Kumtor gold mine were so enraged by his comment on social media they called a strike and demanded Michael be arrested for race hate crimes.
Hes now revealed he had to be smuggled out of the mine in the back of an ambulance.
His harrowing nine-hour escape ended with him being arrested at the airport and warned by police his comment could have started a war between Britain and Kyrgyzstan.
Now safely back home in Abernethy, Perthshire, with wife Amanda and two children, Abbie, eight, and Logan, five, Michael said: Im just relieved to be back in one piece.
Michaels troubles began when he shared a picture of his work colleagues enjoying a fantastic Hogmanay feast at a party in the mines canteen.
He added the caption: The Kyrgyz people queuing out of the door for their special delicacy the horses penis!!!.
While the post was widely thought to be a joke, Michael believed the traditional chuchuk dish was actually a horses penis, not a sausage stuffed with horse meat and spices.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/british-man-compares-kyrgyz-delicacy-to-horses-penis-causes-strike-at-gold-mine-gets-deported--ZJ1Kv5ZCjg
https://www.sundaypost.com/inside-the-sunday-edition/my-terror-over-kyrgyzstan-horse-sausage-gate-mob-who-tried-to-kill-me/
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All because of a sausage?? (Original Post)
Blue_Tires
Jan 2016
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baldguy
(36,649 posts)1. To be fair, it's really REALLY good sausage.
clarice
(5,504 posts)2. Link? Just kidding. nt
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)4. That's the wurst pun yet.
clarice
(5,504 posts)7. Don't be a brat. nt
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)3. Reminds me of this clip
At about 1:27
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)5. Man, this shit ain't funny any more
They're talking about giving him three to five years in prison for "racial hatred" for calling chuchuk sausage "horse's penis."
Which, strangely enough, it looks like.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)6. Ah, Kyrgyzstan
Where the national sport is a kind of polo played with a dead goat's head.
Ivan Kaputski
(528 posts)8. This is why I left the USSR!