Rum barrel in the news

[Gigi4808]

From the Hannibal Lecter fine Rum collection...

OK that was really just a snazzy title- thougt some of you Rum drinkers might find THIS interesting.

Once you read the story while it is still as gross as the title would suggest, the reason for doing it is not as vile as however Hannibal would justify it. Enjoy

Edited May 9, 2006 by Ed Hamilton (log)

[Mad Mac]

OK that was really just a snazzy title- thougt some of you Rum drinkers might find  THIS interesting.

Once you read the story while it is still as gross as the title would suggest, the reason for doing it is not as vile as however Hannibal would justify it. Enjoy

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Now that's just unpleasant! Maybe I'll stick to unaged rum for a while...

[PR Rum Time]

Drinkers shock at body in rum barrel

From correspondents in Budapest

04may06

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.

[Evangelos]

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/tapping.asp

Check out that link. Variations of this story have been going around for awhile now.

Apparently Reuters has withdrawn the story.

Edited May 13, 2006 by Evangelos (log)