Posted on 06/03/2010 9:13:11 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Thirsty residents of one of Australia's hottest towns face a 400-mile round trip to get a beer after they drank their local pub dry.
Last weekend, The Ironclad Hotel, the only pub in Marble Bar, Western Australia, closed its doors for good. The town, with a population of just 300, is barely a dot on the map of the vast Pilbara region, and has no dedicated off-licence. Supermarkets in Australia are not allowed to sell liquor.
Temperatures in the town regularly top 113F and the average maximum temperature exceeds normal human body temperature for six months of the year.
So thirsty residents in search of a "tinnie", or cold beer, were forced to drive more than an hour by car to Nullagine. But now that pub is running low on supplies.
Brett Powter, manager of Nullagine's only pub, the Conglomerate Hotel, said that a quarter of Marble Bar's residents had made the long journey so far - and he expects to run out of beer before his next delivery.
"We've had people driving down every day, some people drive 120k down and 120k back just to buy a carton of beer," he said.
"Some of them have bought 10 cases just to get them through because the only other pub is another 200kms from here.
"We've gone through 3 pallets this week. We usually go through one."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Start brewing your own beer it has to be cheaper than driving 120k for a six pack.
Western civilization seems to produce an inordinate amount of arbitrary stupidity.
This would seem to be a golden (ok, maybe pale ale) opportunity for a business venture. Wonder why the last pub in town closed?
And I thought we were in bad shape here in this rural area because our nearest Wal-Mart is 160 miles away.
crikey me old mate no lager?
And then an hour later they are going back to the same store for a pack of smokes.
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