Da!

The Lake Ognyanova Stunt - Dobrei? Ne.

Sadly, two cascadeurs, stuntmen trying to work their way out of poverty through risking their lives in order to make near-senile over-the-hill so-called "stars" such as Stallone, Willis and Schwarzenegger look good, were involved in an extremely dangerous stunt that went horribly wrong, as shooting of the sequel to "The Expendables" continued in Bulgaria, this past week-end.

The true expendable ones of the whole entreprise, the cascadeurs were in fact foreigners themselves and not Bulgarians who found temporary employment with this opportunity, at all.

Perhaps Stallone and Co. are clueless about the existence of such a thing as Bulgarian cascadeurs and, if such is the case, he really should see this...

Then again, why give temporary employment to the local, poverty-stricken folks - why risk their lives, too?

Whereas MTV had no clue as to the identity of the stuntmen involved in the tragic accident, the BBC released their names and confirmed by doing so their foreign ethnicity: the injured stuntman is named Nuo Sun. He was hurt while filming a stunt sequence in Lake Ognyanova, Bulgaria last week and has been taken to Germany for further treatment. His fellow stuntman, Kun Lieu, was killed in the incident. The stunt involved pyrotechnics and an inflatable boat upon a body of water, therefore - never a safe mix, even for the most experienced professionals.

"Our deepest condolences go to the family of Kun Lieu," film company Nu Image told the Hollywood Reporter shortly after, reports the BBC...

The Expendables sequel, which follows a short year after the first movie, and is simply titled "The Expendables 2" by the way, expands the roster of over-the-hill action "stars" by adding two more extremely familiar names of the genre: one of them is Jean-Claude Van Damme. And the other is... Chuck Norris. The one and the same Chuck Norris that has been the favorite subject of so many jokes in the last few years (the latest and perhaps greatest being that it was him that killed Osama Bin Laden, in fact: he killed him when he poked him on Facebook.)

Chuck Norris is often referenced whenever the Pumpkin's machismo comes into play - be it at any of the gazillion openings that he presides over or any time he opens his mouth and formulates another strange statement. The Pumpkin clearly models himself after Chuck Norris.

Norris being in town for the shooting of this umpteenth genre film, and there being elections at the same time, was just one heck of a funny coincidence - and it should not be simply this ballot that saw him becoming a spontaneous written-in candidate in the democratic process there...! For Chuck is a far better candidate than any of the choices on the aforementioned ballot: anything is an improvement over a Pumpkin!

The people have long suffered with the imitator - they now want the original, the genuine, the real thing!

Norris does not speak Bulgarian though, aside from a few words (hey - I'm like Chuck Norris! I'm so proud now...) nor does he aspire to embark on a political career, here or there - or anywhere! He's just been supportive of Ron Paul - that's all!

So, Bulgarians, hate to break it to you but I guess you are stuck with the Pumpkin and Co.

While Stallone and Co. are stuck with each other - and the poorly coordinated stunts that they chose to set up.

And the stuntmen company? They're stuck within a risky profession, whichever continent they operate on...

R.I.P. Kun Lieu