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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (471)	10/2/2012 12:21:55 AM
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Ferrari-led parade of gun-firing wedding guests leads to $3-dollar fines, outrage from lawmakers Associated Press \| Oct 1, 2012 10:13 PM ET More from Associated Press Russian Television via AP TelevisionA video grab taken Sunday from Russian Television shows wedding guests and passers-by standing around a red sports Ferrari that was pulled over by police after celebratory firing in the air in Moscow. It was an unusual wedding escort even for Moscow’s brash style: A red Ferrari led a motorcade in which guests fired celebratory shots from car windows as they sped down one of the city’s main avenues near Red Square. The parade drew an angry reaction from the Kremlin-controlled parliament, where senior lawmakers voiced outrage Monday after wedding guests from Dagestan, North Caucasus, walked away with $3 fines. Just one man was ordered to pay a $60 fine. Video of the incident also prompted angry comments from ethnic Russians who denounced the wedding traditions imported from the volatile Caucasus. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of Liberal Democratic Party, said while people from the Caucasus see firing guns as “a sign of joy,” “here it’s a sign of robbery, banditry.” He desires that such incidents be punishable by up to two years in jail. news.nationalpost.com