Bailiffs to seize puppies to recover debt

[marmar]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian bailiffs have threatened to take what is most precious from a Russian pensioner who has failed to pay a debt -- her three Shar Pei pedigree puppies, they said Friday.

The pensioner, who bailiffs did not name, owes 350,000 rubles ($11,330) to an individual in her home town in Russia's volcanic Kamchatka region in the Far East.

"If she does not fulfill her obligations (to pay back the debt) within 10 days, the puppies will be sold by the Federal Agency for State Property Management," bailiffs said in a statement on their site fssprus.ru.

In Kamchatka, Shar Pei puppies fetch 15,000 rubles ($482.6) each, media reported. But bailiffs said they will try sell them for 5,000 rubles to attract more potential buyers.

They added that the famously wrinkled Shar Pei puppies have been allowed for the time being to remain with the pensioner, who breeds them as her sole source of income as she has no property.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100917/od_nm/us_russia_puppies_odd

[el_bryanto]

1. It's a cruel world.

I wonder if I could pick up a $482.60 puppie for $159.25 - you'd probably have to be in Moscow wouldn't you? Oh well.

Bryant

[nuxvomica]

2. Why is she called a "pensioner"?

It says her sole source of income is breeding Shar Peis, so I'm assuming there's no pension here. Is "pensioner" just a euphemism for "aged" or "retired"?

[mikelgb]

3. yes polite way of saying "old bag"

[Javaman]

4. "and your little dog, too!!"

oh wicked witch of the west, you have taught us so well.

[tjwash]

5. In Soviet Russia...the dogs breed you

Sorry...1988 just called and I had to forward the message.

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. Ain't it amazing how quickly those commies

picked up on the basics of capitalism?