Thursday, May 04, 2006

deet...deet...deet deet...FJORDNEWS...deet...deet deet

This one's cause I really like you...

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 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-litre 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.



Thanks to J. Nitro for the breaking news.

3 comments:

rhinoceros said...

I wonder if the dude was an alco, in his living existence.

Perhaps the irony is lost on him in this state.

See, its gold like this I look for in my television news reports.

Chinonye O. aka SincereCaramel said...

What the hell! I arrived at this site first to see nothing then to see this. I wonder what the rum tastes like.

D.T. said...

Rhino!
1) Yes.
2) No.
3) That's why there's Fjord. Of course if someone wanted to make what you're suggesting my JOB...I'd be happy to make that happen.

Since!!!
Happy to see your caramelly goodness oozing back to Fjord. We've had some Webmonster/blogger problems over the last few days...sorry. I'm not so concerned about the "taste" (which apparently the workers kinda' liked) I'm wondering about the feelings in the guts of those workers when they realized what they'd been drinking. I kinda' got a little queazy just thinking that.