BUDAPEST, Hungary-

I hope everyone had a great New Year and was safe during the entire holiday season. God only knows how much alcohol StrangeRush.com readers drank during the holiday season. So, as a celebration of the new year and the vast amounts of alcohol you all consumed, let’s start this year off and let me ask you, care for a little rum?

When it all started it was supposed to be a lot of fun, and it was for the most part. What’s a group of guys supposed to do when they are working on a home renovation and the person in charge supplies them with a virtual endless supply of good alcohol? Where on Earth can you go and renovate a home all while getting hammered knocking out a 300-liter barrel of fine Jamaican Rum? I have to admit, it does sound like a lot of fun. In America it would be highly unlikely a group of workers would be allowed near a home under renovation while drinking. Maybe a little beer, but that’s about it, nothing hard like rum. And the workers found the rum to have such a unique taste that they even bottled some to take home.

So, as the story goes, they finished the entire barrel and went to move it out of the way so they could continue their work, but they still found it to be exceptionally heavy. Naturally, they opened the barrel to figure out why it was so heavy, and it was like something out of a horror movie. The body of a pickled man fell out.

The explanation came that 20 years earlier the wife of the man had put his body into the barrel and shipped it to avoid the cost and paperwork needed for an official return. It was unknown why she needed to ship him, I would assume he was Hungarian. She had since died, so no explanation was available.

The moral of the story: If you EVER open a barrel of rum and find a dead body, stick your finger as far down your throat as humanly possible and puke until you are completely dehydrated. Although, I would assume a finger in the throat would be unnecessary, because under the circumstances nature should take care of such necessary actions.

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