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"special taste"
Posted: 06 May 2006, 00:46
by blanston12
Hungary workers get shock at bottom of rum barrel
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian builders who drank their way to
the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got
a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty
barrel, a police magazine website reported.
According to online magazine
http://www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in
the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained
it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the
body of a naked man fell out.
The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back
from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order
to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.
According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel
had a "special taste" so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor
to take home.
The wife has since died and the man was buried in a proper grave.
And so you know I am not making this up
news.yahoo.com
Posted: 06 May 2006, 01:52
by jonesey2k
Blearrrgh :shock: :-&
Posted: 06 May 2006, 02:37
by Quixoticish
Soylent Rum is people y'know. :dance:
Posted: 06 May 2006, 06:18
by FlyTexas
Eeewwww. :shock: That'll make you lose your buzz pretty quick. :roll:
Brian
Posted: 06 May 2006, 07:06
by AndyMinx
Yummy! :k:
I wonder if they kept those bottles they decanted?!?!?!?!
Now watch out for dodgy looking Rum on Ebay!
Cheers,
Posted: 06 May 2006, 07:23
by calypso
Any comments about a "full-bodied" vintage will be removed by the administrators. :green:
Re: "special taste"
Posted: 06 May 2006, 08:58
by Motormouse
blanston12 wrote:
The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back
from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order
to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.
Nothing new in that y'know, thats' how Nelson was sent home from battle of Trafalgar
ttfn
Pete
Posted: 06 May 2006, 09:37
by Jetset
You have just put me off my rum balls i got from the shopping!
Posted: 06 May 2006, 10:35
by Avant-Garde-Aclue
I bet they won't be getting pickled for a while
Posted: 06 May 2006, 10:52
by andy
Jetset wrote:You have just put me off my rum balls i got from the shopping!
I didn't know that shopping makes your anatomy sore................? :redface:
