Posted on 01/28/2005 12:13:32 PM PST by BreitbartSentMe
Ananova: Man peed way out of avalanche
A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.
Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains.
He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out.
But as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through.
He had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it, local media reported.
He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."
Parts of Europe have this week been hit by the heaviest snowfalls since 1941, with some places registering more than ten feet of snow in 24 hours.
Peeing for safety and security.
What a concept!
Unnngh!
Oh, I did check Snopes, no mention of it there, so maybe it's true!
Wouldn't pouring the beer directly on the snow have almost the same effect?
"Sixty bottle of beer on the wall.
"Sixty bottles of beer.
"If one of those bottles should happen to fall..."
Well, maybe the warmth helped.....
That's it. From now on, I'm traveling with at least two and a half cases of beer. ;-)
So, who's thinking of Doug and Bob McKenzie right now, eh?
Well, yeah, but where's the fun in that?
The more haste, the less peed.
And waist all that beer?!
Now this is a real pisser....
Sorry, had to do it! lol
Posted on 01/28/2005 12:13:32 PM PST by Bush_Democrat
Posted on 01/28/2005 12:14:01 PM PST by presidio9
Ah, but I beat him by 33 seconds!!
Where's the beer eh?
eh, that's one big wheee eh?
Doug McKenzie was the hero when he drank the whole tank of beer and saved the heroine in "Strange Brew", then relieved himself on the asylum, putting out the fire. Silly, but still a funny movie. ;^)
Get Dad a beer, you knob...
You don't buy beer, you rent it.
Yeah, but that one's got more posts and more hits. Sorry.
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