Hooch toll: 75 dead, 80 critical

The Times of India - Mumbai (Bombay) ^ | 12-30-2004 | Staff

[coloradan]

75 dead, 80 critical ...

Several godowns on the outskirts of the city were also raided, and manufacturers and suppliers of hooch were charged under the Prohibition Act.

Gee, if only this stuff were illegal, mass deaths like this wouldn't happen... (This is in India.)

[Little Pig]

Dukes of Hyderabad?

[Rutles4Ever]

Why did God allow this to happen? Should we have a crisis of faith? The media needs to tell me quickly!

[sticker]

Don't use auto radiators as your condensation units. Moonshine 101

[TheSpottedOwl]

Is liquor illegal in India? Well I'm not going to make any jokes considering people died from internal hemmoraging. Yuck...

[7.62 x 51mm]

"spurious liquor"?

Had some of that in college back in the 60s. Gave me the *trots* for a day, but no death. Yikes!

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

Daisy in a cutoff sari? Hmmmm...

[Moose4]

Y'know, back in the day, when my Caucasian-recyclable ancestors were running shine back up in the hills of Virginia, I don't ever remember anybody actually DYING from the stuff. Unless somebody running from a revenooer ran his car over a cliff, of course.

Was this some sort of particularly bad batch of Mad Cow 20/20 that got out on the streets?

}:-)4

[TXBSAFH]

You are so right, just good old unused copper tubing in a water barrel for me.

[Red Badger]

What about old AC Condenser coils? Okay? Not, that I would actually use one, you understand......

[white trash redneck]

Dukes of Hyderabad?

LOL!!!

Bombay Bubbas.

Here in West by-God Virginia we know how to make white whisky.

[sukhoi-30mki]

liquor sold without any license or authorised preparation is illegal everywhere ,including in India.Most hooch tragedies result from consumption of distilled methanol-the luckier ones die,the unlucky ones go blind.

[MineralMan]

"Don't use auto radiators as your condensation units. Moonshine 101

"

Oddly enough, you can use them now. Radiators in most cars are now made of plastic. Dunk one in a barrel of water and you can use it just fine for distilling your moonshine. However, I'd advise buying a new one. It's tough to get all of that antifreeze out of it.

[TXBSAFH]

Copper tubing is cheaper.

[sticker]

Don't know about AC coils, I would have to agree with TXBSAFH
unused copper coils would be the way to go. That is if someone took it in their mind to manufacture untaxed liquor which would be illegal

[dennisw]

Hindu hootch alert

[TXBSAFH]

Yes your right it is illegal, how thoughtless of me.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Of course, hooch or moonshine is illegal everywhere. I was just wondering why they would bother making it if it was available. Lol, guess I'm just not informed ;-)