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…doesn’t have to stay there. Here’s a news story you rarely see in Las Vegas, despite the fact that many of its 37 million visitors each year spend much time in casinos: A woman gave birth to a son inside a Russian casino.
From Russian Information Agency Novosti:
A unique incident occurred in the Novosibirsk 777 casino where a woman gave birth to a son. Two casino administrators and a pie-seller helped her in labor, Vecherny Novosibirsk newspaper reports.“At 11.30 a woman entered the casino and fell down without saying a word. At first we panicked. There were no medics among our clients. We knew only general information about delivery. Suddenly someone called a woman selling meat pies outdoors. She had been a midwife once. We undressed the woman in labor and I found a clean towel. A boy was born in half an hour. There were many curious idlers but we did not let anyone in,” said casino administrator Ivan Kazakov.
Soon an ambulance arrived and took the woman and the baby to the hospital, he added. The mother and her son are feeling good. The newborn is healthy.
I can only imagine the chain of events that led to two casino adminsitrators and a pie-seller (and former midwife) delivering a baby. You could never write a story like that. The truth really is stupider than fiction.
I wonder if they took bets on the sex, size, and time of delivery of the baby.
Posted in business of gambling
February 13th, 2005 at 4:15 pm
A meat pie-seller! That has me giggling