Posted on 03/08/2020 7:55:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A malfunction at a local winery caused 1,000 liters of ready-to-be-bottled wine to leak into the water pipes.
The glitch lasted about three hours and impacted about 20 homes, said Giorgia Mezzacqui, deputy mayor of Castelvetro, about 10 miles south of Modena.
The local government posted on its Facebook page that the leak didn't pose any health risks.
The malfunction was caused by a faulty valve in the washing circuit within the bottling line. Lambrusco Grasparossa, a local specialty, seeped through the town's water lines due to its pressure, the winery said in a statement obtained by CNN.
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Furthest I can attest to is 1950s Japan and benjo ditches.
Of course SF seems to have adapted to the ‘squat & drop’ method quite well.
A turning of water into wine?
That is a spectacular malfunction, bordering on a miracle. I wonder if Jesus is jealous over that one?
It’s in The Bible. God works in mysterious ways.
In John 2 Jesus (God) turns the water in several large water jars into very good wine.
In the non-miracle described in the article, wine, which was always wine, wound up in the plumbing. It wasn't an act of God.
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