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Seven People Trapped Inside British Pub for Nine Days
Emirates 24/7 ^ | Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Posted on 12/07/2010 12:20:46 PM PST by nickcarraway

In what sounds like a beer drinker’s dream, seven people were trapped inside a British pub for nine days by a ferocious snowstorm and 16-foot snow drifts.

Five staff members and two local residents were barricaded in the Lion Inn in Blakey Ridge, Kirbymoorside, North Yorkshire from Nov. 26, but under the most optimal of conditions: plenty of food and drink and since the pub is also a bed and breakfast, there were even beds to sleep in.

A snowplow finally made its way over the North York moors to the pub Saturday, allowing those inside to leave, the BBC reported.

“It was really novel at first and quite exciting,” the Mail quoted waitress Katie Underwood, 18, as saying before they finally made it out.

"It’s been freezing, but we’ve been lucky that it’s a pub and B&B we’re trapped in.

‘We’ve got plenty of coal for our fire, which has been great, and there are rooms upstairs so we have somewhere to sleep, and plenty of food.”

The Lion Inn’s home website says, ”The bar is well known for its good selection of quality real ales” and notes it is recommended by, among others, The Good Pub Guide and the Good Beer Guide.


TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alcohol; ale; napl; pub
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To: nickcarraway

I'm not sure these three were there, but for visual reference...

41 posted on 12/07/2010 12:57:30 PM PST by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: AU72

Pub food - disgusting!


42 posted on 12/07/2010 1:00:11 PM PST by rahbert
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To: PGR88

Plenty of coal in the hopper...


43 posted on 12/07/2010 1:03:10 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: MarineBrat

Those are HUGE!
Not sure what that picture has to do with drinking or anything, but thanks for posting!


44 posted on 12/07/2010 1:03:44 PM PST by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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To: a fool in paradise

Where do I sign up?


45 posted on 12/07/2010 1:07:28 PM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: nickcarraway

`The Lion Inn Winter`, starring Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle.1958 ha


46 posted on 12/07/2010 1:07:32 PM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: nickcarraway

`The Lion Inn Winter`, starring Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle.1968 ha


47 posted on 12/07/2010 1:07:57 PM PST by bunkerhill7
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To: nickcarraway

Hammer Time !


48 posted on 12/07/2010 1:18:23 PM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: rahbert
Pub food - disgusting!

The only thing worst thing would be the only male stuck in the place with female bar employees like the one below. Just think, having to listen to all their 24/7 bellyaching about not being warm enough and wanting you for keeping their bed warm and constantly bugging you for massages, rubbing their feet etc.

Disgusting.

Wait....Wut???

Photobucket

49 posted on 12/07/2010 1:20:03 PM PST by hoyt-clagwell (5:00 AM Gym Crew)
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To: nickcarraway
Seven People Trapped Inside British Pub for Nine Days

Woulda been ten days if the Bitters hadn't given out...

50 posted on 12/07/2010 1:31:09 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: nickcarraway; tomkow6; Bender2; monkapotamus

OH MAN LOL!


51 posted on 12/07/2010 1:35:38 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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To: nickcarraway
take a cue from the Irish. WEllies in play. ;D


52 posted on 12/07/2010 1:37:17 PM PST by Daffynition
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To: nickcarraway

I got snowed in at a ski resort once. There are worse problems to have. :-)


53 posted on 12/07/2010 1:55:13 PM PST by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

What did the Admiral fall into?


54 posted on 12/07/2010 2:10:49 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: freedomlover

And the beer mugs are big too. ;)


55 posted on 12/07/2010 2:14:28 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: a fool in paradise

ELP - The Electric Light Players?

;^)


56 posted on 12/07/2010 2:26:47 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: nickcarraway

Dear lord, my bar tab would have been larger then my student loans. Oh, but it would be so worth it.


57 posted on 12/07/2010 2:50:12 PM PST by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: SoldierDad

Oh, and all the warm beer anyone could wish for...


58 posted on 12/07/2010 2:57:44 PM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: hoyt-clagwell

Lol. Hofbrauhaus?


59 posted on 12/07/2010 3:02:33 PM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Hardraade
Lol. Hofbrauhaus?

Close enough in my book :)

60 posted on 12/07/2010 3:26:55 PM PST by hoyt-clagwell (5:00 AM Gym Crew)
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