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ADAIR, Okla. A beer keg left on a patio fire pit in the eastern Oklahoma town of Adair exploded with the blast heard for miles. Police say no one was hurt but windows were broken in three homes and bricks from the pit were thrown a block-and-a-half away. Police Chief Albert McKee says two people put the old keg on the fire to watch beer spew out when it got hot. But they gave up and went inside before the explosion. McKee says it's a good thing they went inside because the blast could've killed them.

State board suspends Nationwide Arena beer sales for 10 days Saturday, February 22, 2003 Robert Ruth THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Fans who have suffered with the Columbus Blue Jackets through a mediocre season soon could have trouble drowning their sorrows at Nationwide Arena. The three-member Ohio Liquor Control Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to suspend the alcohol licenses of all beer stands in the Downtown arena for 10 days, ending March 30, for selling beer to underage informants in February 2002. Officials of Midwest Sportservice of Buffalo, N.Y., which operates the beer stands, could appeal the ruling to the Franklin County...

Wednesday, November  13, 2002. Posted: 09:58:05 (AEDT) Over-stimulated sailors cause security scare on plane Three airline passengers who had taken turns locking themselves in the toilet before take-off have caused a terrorism alert that got them thrown off the flight, even though it became clear they had only been relieving sexual urges. Airport officials in Paris say the three men were sailors returning to their homes in the central Pacific nation of Kiribati, after a long spell at sea. They had initially aroused the suspicion of staff on their flight to Hong Kong, when documents they were carrying appeared...