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Caught on camera: 6,810 bottles of wine crashed to floor when store's shelves collapsed
The Daily Mail ^
| 10-24-11
| Mike O'Brien
Posted on 10/24/2011 10:39:49 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
It's a wine lover's nightmare - thousands of bottles of the world's finest grape juice crash on the floor, leading to a tsunami of undrinkable vino.
At Superior Discount Liquors in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, that disastrous scenario really did happen.
A 78ft long shelving unit suddenly becoming detached from its anchoring wall.
Standing four shelves high, a total of 6,810 bottles of wine and champagne smashed on the floor.
The liquor turned into a sea of red and broken glass. Managers at the store are stumped as to why or how it happened, but did admit the shelves are 31 years old.
Video at source.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: disaster; sheboygan; wine
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To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
10/24/2011 10:55:40 AM PDT
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
To: Lockbar
” Covered by insurance? “
According to the article, it was covered by wine and broken glass...
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posted on
10/24/2011 10:56:10 AM PDT
by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: afraidfortherepublic
It’s called sponge and squeeze!
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posted on
10/24/2011 10:58:20 AM PDT
by
NoGrayZone
("Get ready for an aberration of historic proportions" - Herman Cain)
To: circlecity
To: barbarianbabs
WHY???
Well the article said that the fasteners came away from the wall. If it wasn’t sabotage, it could have been poor fasteners. About 30 yers ago we had a spate of bogus bolts on the market around the world that showed up in the automotive and aircraft industries. Maybe some of them made their way to Sheboygan and were used on these shelves. It doesn’t look like the shelves collapsed; it looks more like the bolts pulled away from the walls — or broke.
To: afraidfortherepublic
Six thousand eight hundred and nine bottles of wine on the shelf,
Six thousand eight hundred and nine bottles of wine.
Take one down, pass it around,
Six thousand eight hundred and eight bottles of wine on the shelf.
This could be a long thread.
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10/24/2011 11:00:04 AM PDT
by
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:00:29 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Slump Tester
Undrinkable my ass - get a sponge!
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Even today’s ‘winos’ can’t hold a candle to winos in my day.
A little thing like glass etc wouldn’t have stopped them.
Even THEY would scoff at todays ‘wine in a box’ although they would have gotten over it quickly enough to consume the contents...
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:02:05 AM PDT
by
xrmusn
((6/98) If govt involved, the more outlandish a scheme appears, the truer it probably is.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:05:25 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
To: afraidfortherepublic
If could figure out how to do it on my droid I’d post a link to the scene in Animal House where Bluto cries over the spilled booze.
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:06:07 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: barbarianbabs
To: afraidfortherepublic
“All you can drink...5 bucks!
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:09:58 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: dfwgator
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:11:30 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: circlecity
To: afraidfortherepublic
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:15:28 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:16:51 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. - Prov 22:3)
To: xrmusn
I always loved the SNL skit where Dan and the boys were
high brow winos.
Say Mister, how about loaning me 25 dollars for a bottle
of bojulay?
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:17:43 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:18:41 AM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
10/24/2011 11:24:08 AM PDT
by
Cvengr
(Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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