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.
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
