Thirsty Hungarians find surprising cause for drink

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Pickled corpse tumbles out of rum barrel

Thirsty Hungarians find surprising cause for drink’s ‘special taste’

 

MSNBC staff and news service reports

Updated: 3:48 p.m. ET May 5, 2006

BUDAPEST, Hungary - 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 Web site 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 Web site 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.

 

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