Friday, February 04, 2005

Bonus Beer Blogging

Found this item out on Snopes:
A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by
drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.

Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path
four days after his Audi was buried in Slovakia's Tatra mountains. He told them
that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way
out with his hands.

But he realised the snow was falling faster than he could dig. and would
soon fill his car.

He had 60 500ml bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and
after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate
on the snow to melt it.

"It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt," he said later. "But I'm
glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful."

Snopes seems to doubt the validity of this story but has not yet assigned it 'False' status. So the dream lives on, for now.

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