Rum anyone?

[Andrejs]

Builders find body in rum barrel

Builders at a house in Hungary drank a barrel of rum, only to find a pickled corpse at the bottom, a Hungarian police website has reported.

The man's body fell out when the workers tried to move the 300-litre (66-gallon) barrel at the end of their binge, the report on Zsaru.hu said.

The website said the man's wife had stored the body in the barrel after he died in Jamaica 20 years ago.

The workers said the rum had a "special taste" and had planned to bottle some.

The website said the builders made the grisly discovery six months after the woman, who was in her 80s, died.

It said the woman had shipped her husband's body back home to the city of Szeged in the rum barrel to avoid the cost and paperwork involved in sending it back by official means.

The report is the latest such account to emerge of bodies discovered preserved in liquor, some of which have been discounted as myths.


This is few days old but since it made me puke I tought I'd share

 

[Shindig]

Tapping the Admiral. That's a phrase I haven't heard in ages.

 

[rpvankasteren]

That's how they flavour Captain Morgan too.

 

[Joe Star]

Isnt this like the oldest urban legend of all time?

 

[Andrejs]

Erm, I don't know, could be, just a lot of newspapers were writing about it last week...

 

[Ubik Valis]

but since it made me puke I tought I'd share

Haha, really?

 

[Pontiakos]

if true that is really nasty :-puke:

 

[Ebonix]

In a way, the story is kinda funny. Storing a loved one in a rum barrel to avoid paying for his body to be shipped

 

[Andrejs]

Haha, really?

Yes I was drinking my coffee and eating some eggs while reading the newspaper, then I saw the article and it all came out, err...

Anyway, looks like Joe was right
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2006/05/reuters_drinks_.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12705304/

 

[The Don't]

Yes I was drinking my coffee and eating some eggs while reading the newspaper, then I saw the article and it all came out, err...

Anyway, looks like Joe was right
http://www.regrettheerror.com/2006/05/reuters_drinks_.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12705304/

That's not classed as vomitting really if only the food in your mouth came out.

Disappointed.

 

[Andrejs]

Sorry, man Actually there were SOME pieces of last nights dinner in there as well, I hope that makes you feel a bit better.

 

[Joe Star]

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

They've added the Hungarian story in there as well

 

[bjmenge]

True or not, it's gross as hell.

 

[ShiftyPowers]

Wouldn't the import tax on a 300 liter barrel of rum be huge? Like, comparable in cost to shipping a body home if you consider you also have to buy the rum, which would probably cost like $1500 at the cheapest. A liter of Captain is $16.99. That's why I thought it was fake.

 

[Pontiakos]

Wouldn't the import tax on a 300 liter barrel of rum be huge? Like, comparable in cost to shipping a body home if you consider you also have to buy the rum, which would probably cost like $1500 at the cheapest. A liter of Captain is $16.99. That's why I thought it was fake.

shipping a body home can be quite expensive depending on were home is.

 

[jatin]

U bothered to think abt all that...
Its guessed it was fake after i read d line that d workers tried some...

 

[Joe Star]

Its guessed it was fake after i read d line that d workers tried some...

Whats so fake about that? Me & my friends slurped down a whole pot of noodles before any of us noticed a dead fly floating in the soup.