Putin Surprises Alaskan Ural Owner With Free Bike, And No There's Nothing Weird About That At All, Why Would That Be Weird?

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As acold arsenic random, unexpected gifts go, it's hard to hit a free motorcycle, particularly if that motorcycle comes pinch its ain sidecar. But what would you do if nan personification giving you nan free motorcycle besides happened to beryllium a vulnerable dictator? You wouldn't deliberation that would beryllium a conundrum anyone would person to woody pinch present successful nan U.S., but that's besides precisely what happened to 1 Alaskan man pursuing Trump's travel to brown-nose Putin, Alaska's News Source reports.

Mark Warren lives successful Bird Creek, southeast of Anchorage, and according to Warren, he received a seemingly random telephone telephone telling him he had been fixed a caller Ural motorcycle and that it was waiting for him at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. "I thought it was a hoax because they don't cognize me. I don't cognize them," Warren told Alaska's News Source, a wholly understandable guidance from a feline who had nary thought why nan Russian dictator would springiness him a motorcycle, seemingly astatine random. "I said telephone maine erstwhile it's disconnected base, because astatine this constituent I conscionable felt, this is truthful random and truthful unusual that I felt apprehensive astir this being really really going to hap ... this doesn't conscionable happen. I cognize nary 1 from nan Russian Embassy."

Except it wasn't a hoax, and Russia really did springiness him a free Ural. According to a archive he later received from the Embassy of nan Russian Federation successful nan U.S., "The Embassy of nan Russian Federation successful nan United States of America connected behalf of nan President of nan Russian Federation, Vladimir V. Putin, transfers arsenic an enactment of giving nan pursuing property: Motorcycle 'Gear-Up.'" So now he has a caller Ural, complete pinch its ain small sidecar. 

While nan documents provided by nan Russian embassy didn't explicate why, exactly, Putin chose to springiness Warren a free motorcycle, nan gift isn't rather arsenic random arsenic it whitethorn initially appear. Warren already owned a Ural earlier being fixed nan caller one, and backmost connected August 6, he reportedly met a group of Russian journalists who concisely interviewed him astir his motorcycle. 

"There were 2 gentlemen astatine an intersection that stopped me, and they identified themselves arsenic Russian journalists, and they were willing successful why I had nan bike," Warren told Alaska's News Source. "It was purely conscionable accusation astir nan bike, why I bought it, and astir what I did to hole it up." One of those journalists later called him to show him their communicative had gone viral successful Russia. A few days aft that telephone call, Warren learned he'd beryllium receiving nan new, free Ural. 

You tin beautiful overmuch link nan dots from there. Clearly, Putin saw nan communicative of an American owning a Ural arsenic a propaganda opportunity and awesome advertizing for Ural. See? Even this American recognizes nan superiority of nan awesome Russian motorcycle.

That besides near Warren successful a weird position, but ultimately, he decided to judge nan bike. Why? As Alaska's News Source put it, "Warren said that he did not person immoderate 2nd thoughts astir accepting nan gift, but did opportunity he had hesitation astir rejecting it."