A drunken woman had to be pulled out of a freshly-laid road after falling into an asphalt trench.
Elena Pavlovna, 43, was staggering home when surfacing machinery blocked her path.
She tried to climb over it but toppled into a concrete mixer, which had been left on. It twirled her around for five minutes until she pulled herself out.
But dizzy Elena — weighed down by the liquid concrete on her clothes — fell flat on her back into the pool of drying asphalt. When the road workers returned from a lunch break, they found Elena craning her neck and head out of the sticky mix — and swearing.
They called rescue services and she was winched clear.
Elena, of Kemerovo, Russia, said: “The mixer made me feel sick and dizzy. Then when I got out I fell into the asphalt.
“It was like quicksand. The more I tried to pull myself out the more I sank into it. I was angry with the workmen because they laughed at me. One even threatened to put a bucket on my head to stop me shouting at them.”
A rescue spokesman said: “She wouldn’t shut up and kept on telling us what we should be doing.
“The asphalt wasn’t set properly or she might have ended up a permanent feature in the road.”
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