The Ear Cutters

Have you ever gone to a restaurant where the food on the menu is deconstructed? They'll transform a typical steak and potatoes into potato-encrusted beef croquettes, or a peach pie into a tuile cracker with peach chutney. It turns out that at least two Russian men accomplished this feat through arm wrestling. Normally, arm wrestling is used to settle disputes, but this was not the case in 2014. Instead of having an issue and resolving it through the match, the men decided to wager on the contest and the loser would cut off their own ear. You know, the all-too-common bar wager.

They arm wrestled, and one of them won. Because the loser wanted a rematch, everyone's ears were still ringing after a second round in which that gentleman won. So they're all entangled. They then decided to cut their ears off because they had both lost a round. The idea of settling it through, say, arm wrestling didn't occur to either of them.

Date: 2014