Saturday, May 06, 2006

Not a worm at bottom of the rum barrel

Yahoo! News :" Budapest - 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.

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 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 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."

1 comment:

11181955 said...

I agree you'd think these workers would of got sick from drinking the Rum? Heck a human body has to be like a rotton posion after all those years, but then again..
Brings a whole new meaning to when your man says he feels pickled..lol
As for what the wife did, with her being dead now its kind of hard to say why she did what she did! But the one thing I can't figure out is...You'd think she would of remembered she sent him home in a rum barrel..unless she put him there to get rid of him in the first place. Just seems strange she forgot he was in the barrel when she got home.