Does this seriously seem like a good idea?

"A Russian man, Alexey Bykov, wanted his girlfriend to know what life would be like without him. So he hired a screenwriter, a director, stuntmen, and a make-up artist to fake a fatal car crash. After a fake paramedic told his girlfriend that he was dead, Aleksey jumped up and asked for her hand in marriage." And she said yes.

So let's see... he's obviously got a huge ego (she must know how horrible life would be without me!!) and he's not above tasteless pranking... so, what, maybe they'll last six months?

This seems like something that should be on Cracked. I'm not so much amazed at the narcissist loony, so much as the fact that she said yes. Unless this is a common form of marriage proposal in Russia and we're just taking it out of context?

She probably has a sick sense of humor too, they'll be the perfect couple!

Sounds like she is even more pathetic than he is.

Ah, emotionally unstable and irrational human beings, how I pity thee...

Or she marries him, then seeks a divorce on the grounds of 'mental cruelty' and sues his arse off. (since he seems to have plenty of rubles)

That does not strike me as a particularly healthy relationship.

In Soviet Russia, marriage proposes you!

In Soviet Russia, dead is romance.

Then I knew that our love was
Just a car crash away.
-Marilyn Manson. :)

Ooookey 0.o

Is it just me, or did the world just become a little bit stupider, someone better tell the folks at The Smoking Gun about this.

In the 90s I ran a website with advertising from bride.ru and other questionable sources. I always wondered if there was any legitimacy to these sites, but now I'm quite certain that if a Russian woman would marry a man under those circumstances, getting married through a website would be as normal as buying milk from the shops.

I always knew our local brides are crazy...

Countless people have cried as they have realized how much they cared for someone who is no longer alive... and you people criticize a guy who circumvented that ?
Imagine if he truly died in a car crash and she kept wishing it wasn't so. Well, guess what - she got her wish. Memento mori and all that.

Ugh... I guess I'm just weird.