Russians Watch House on Tuesday Nights

I see a lot of hits on my logfiles for Russians google searching for photos of Dr. House, and they tend to correlate with Tuesday. So I’m guessing that the Ruskies love the cranky Dr. Gregory House as much as we do. And I don’t know why, but I think it’s cool to imagine Hugh Laurie speaking with a Russian accent and treating his patients with disdain.

But I don’t think Dr. House could have saved this Russian woman who parked her car, stepped out, and fell into a pit of boiling water!  Now that’s a bad day at the office.

From Reuters here:

A Russian woman who fell into a pit of boiling water after parking her car died Tuesday from burns, a hospital official said.

The hole was caused by a ruptured underground heating pipe.

“She parked her car, left it, and immediately found herself in boiling water,” said an official at the Military Medical Academy in Russia‘s second city of St. Petersburg.

A man who tried to rescue the 57-year-old woman also suffered burns but was in stable condition, the official said.

Most Russian cities have ageing municipal heating systems which pump boiling water under the streets and into houses.  Ruptures regularly occur in late autumn when the system is switched on for the winter.