Woman Gets Beer From Her Kitchen Faucet By Associated Press
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OSLO, Norway - It almost seemed like a miracle to Haldis Gundersen when she turned on her kitchen faucet this weekend and found the water had turned into beer.
Two flights down, employees and customers at the Big Tower Bar were horrified when water poured out of the beer taps.
By an improbable feat of clumsy plumbing, someone at the bar in Kristiandsund, western Norway, had accidentally hooked the beer hoses to the water pipes for Gundersen's apartment.
"We had settled down for a cozy Saturday evening, had a nice dinner, and I was just going to clean up a little," Gundersen, 50, told The Associated Press by telephone Monday. "I turned on the kitchen faucet and beer came out."
However, Gundersen said the beer was flat and not tempting, even in a country where a half-liter (pint) can cost about 25 kroner ($3.75) in grocery stores.
Per Egil Myrvang, of the local beer distributor, said he helped bartenders reconnect the pipes by telephone.
"The water and beer pipes do touch each other, but you have to be really creative to connect them together," he told local newspapers.
Gundersen joked about having the pub send up free beer for her next party.
"But maybe it would be easier if they just invited me down for a beer," she said.
Man! I know people who would kill for that. Friday night I was at a party at a friend's house... dude actually went so far as to install a tap in his kitchen that is connected to a keg fridge in his garage.
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I went to tech school with a guy that cleaned out the washer fluid system in his truck and filled it with Everclear. He then ran a small hose up under the dashboard.
He could then hold his cup under the end of the hose, push the washer fluid button and get a shot of Everclear.
Even when I was 19, I thought it was a stupid idea.
Well, I don't think he had a lot of extra cells so he probably should have been careful about the few he had left.
His main purpose in that was that if he got pulled over, he had no containers and a search would reveal nothing as long as they didn't taste his washer fluid.
Aww come on Web- that is a great idea when you are 19! Of course I know that you are above drinking and driving- I have always been too- but that is a good idea!
I had a 77 chevy luv with a rust hole in the floor board under my feet, we used to go sit at the lake and have a few. What do you do with the empty cans? Drive over to the RV dump and pop em thru the hole in the floor!
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