http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12631404/?GT1=8199 Pickled corpse tumbles out of rum barrel Thirsty Hungarians find surprising cause for drink’s ‘special taste’ 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. According to the Web site, 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. Copyright 2006 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.
this was very common to do in revoloution ary war times. big name guy on the boat dies, you put him in the rum till you get home.
