Night-shift snooze expensive
NZPA-Reuter Moscow A Soviet factory was engulfed in a sea of mud after a drunken worker on the night shift switched off pumping machinery so that he could have a quiet snooze, Tass news agency reports.
The worker turned off one of two pumps that flushed away waste slurry at the sugar-beet cleaning and processing plant at Zemyetchino, in central Russia.
The other pump could not cope with the load and a torrent of mud burst into the factory, paralysing production for three days. The worker, who had brought a bottle of vodka to keep him company on the night shift, was sent to a strict labour camp for 2Vz years.
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