Well, last Saturday (30th May) I had a chance to visit city day fireworks with some of my friends. Basically I didn't use to visit this type of street festivities as the common sense says me that it always has regrettable results in Samara. But... Ok... I've gone as there are some folks I want to hang out with.
So, the beginning was quite inspirational: nice dinner in a sushi place, walk to embankment and even beautiful firework. We were on embankment near Polevaya and people there were relatively calm (except for one drunk freak who were constantly yelling: "Hooray! Samara-Samara! Glory to Russia! CSKA(??????!) champion!"). Also we didn't see the laser show, but it might be our fault as it promoted to be near Ladya, so we might stay to far away.
But real comedy started after we caught a tram to back home. So, we have a really mucky tram with a unconscious guy with bleeding broken head accompanied by his stupid girlfriend (she just stroked his shoulder, kissed him instead of getting him to the hospital which is just opposite the tram stop!) as a background. Me and Katie fortunately took our seats, Tom was standing... sorry Tom.
What's next? In the next 20 minutes I fully realized who made Russian revolution - the masses. So the masses - the crowd of drank freaks (who were totally drunk long before the fireworks - thanks to the soccer match :))) quickly filled the entire car. With the fabulous aroma of beer and urine they also bring total chaos in the tram: they block the exits, constantly press the emergency brake button, knock at the door... windows... roof, yelling, etc.
All this situation seems to be pathetic and funny but only until the moment when they turned off electricity and engine, saying that the tram is broken because of frequent emergency brake button usage... well, my travel companion seems not to be very happy... but in a few minutes the engine started work fine! It was just a psychological trick to make that clowns in the car more calm! After that point things went much better - "the masses" start leaving the tram, it goes without the accidents. We safely came to our homes.
But, I have a few conclusion:
1) crowded events are evil;
2) crowded events in Russia are doubly evil as a lot of drunk idiots want to show their boldness;
3) crowded events in Russia on the day of soccer match and two days after the frontier guard forces day are triple evil;
4) using municipal transport in such situation is an awful idea;
5) and the last thing - never believe tram drivers, they always ready for kidding!!!
And as a soundtrack for that event:

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