Typo on Russian charity leaflet says 'Exterminate Beavers!'

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Originally Posted by The Moscow Times A Russian charity group is learning how costly a typo can be, after it paid 375,000 rubles ($6,000) for pamphlets that were meant to read “Do good!” but instead say “Exterminate beavers!” thanks to a printing error, according to the Lenta.ru website... Thanks to subtleties of the Russian language, a typographical error left the “Mercy Capital” charitable foundation with 1 million leaflets encouraging genocide against beavers. ...the printing house hired to produce the pamphlets is refusing to take responsibility for the printing error, citing regulations dating back to the Soviet era that small typos don’t qualify as contract violations. The printing house also claims “no one will notice” the typo, and told Mercy Capital to go ahead with distributing the leaflets...

Sometimes it seems like Russia is a factory of ironic comedy. "Exterminate Beavers!" is funny enough on its own, but then "no one will notice". There is even an internet term for this called Meanwhile in Russia.


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