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  • Tequila Leak Floods Kentucky Sewers (here, hold muh tequila alert)

    02/10/2003 11:21:40 AM PST · by chance33_98 · 17 replies · 152+ views
    Tequila Leak Floods Kentucky Sewers Fire Department Called Out To Flush Alcohol LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A leak at a Kentucky distillery Monday morning sent as much as 1,800 gallons of tequila down the drain. The leak developed at the Brown Forman Distillery in Louisville and sent the Pepe Lopez Tequila into the city's sewer system, Louisville TV station WLKY reported. Workers at the distillery were supposed to pump the tequila, which was just delivered from Mexico, from a tanker truck into an empty storage tank. Instead, an employee connected the truck to an already-full tank and flipped the switch....
  • 1,500-gallon whiskey spill prompts facility's evacuation

    07/15/2002 8:21:10 AM PDT · by 2Trievers · 78 replies · 262+ views
    The Courier-Journal ^ | July 15 2002 | Andrea Lee Fanta
    <p>The whiskey flowed more freely than anyone wanted yesterday morning when 1,500 gallons of Southern Comfort flooded a portion of the Brown-Forman Corp.'s bottling-supplies warehouse on Garland Avenue, forcing the facility's evacuation.</p> <p>''There are going to be some happy rats tonight,'' said Bud Schardein, executive director of Metropolitan Sewer District, which reported no problems with the water supply downstream of the warehouse after the liquor was washed into the sewers.</p>