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InsaneApache
11-04-2006, 07:33
I'm sat here almost in tears after reading this....


Police officers in Staffordshire have been working in shifts to pour 2,500 cans of beer and hundreds of bottles of spirits and champagne down a toilet.

The alcohol was confiscated from an off licence that was trading illegally and a judge ordered it to be destroyed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/6115272.stm

:wall:

As Ian Dury and the Blockheads (http://www.iandury.co.uk/) once sang.....what a waste! :sweatdrop: :no: :thumbsdown:
Don Corleone
11-04-2006, 07:47
To quote Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now:

The Horror

:no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no: :no:
KukriKhan
11-04-2006, 07:55
The poor, poor fishies.

Nobody ever thinks of them.

:sniff:
Fragony
11-04-2006, 10:38
Complete and utter doublebarreled spoilage on a motherfriggin plane!

How could they!
macsen rufus
11-04-2006, 12:05
Damn, damn, damn.... I lost another contract for "biological destruction of illegal beverages". Didn't they get my tender documents???? I wouldn't have charged much.... really.... :clown:
Banquo's Ghost
11-04-2006, 14:17
Everybody take a deep breath and relax. Look closely at the photograph. Plod is pouring away canned liquids, therefore the only stuff going down the loo is Australian or American - no beer involved.

:creep:
Fragony
11-04-2006, 14:22
God I am glad that someone had the heart to look a little further, this changes everything :sweatdrop:

Well Kukri, fish don't mind water.
macsen rufus
11-04-2006, 14:33
the only stuff going down the loo is Australian or American - no beer involved

:laugh4: or what we'd call "second generation" beer round these parts :laugh4:
GoreBag
11-04-2006, 16:28
Everybody take a deep breath and relax. Look closely at the photograph. Plod is pouring away canned liquids, therefore the only stuff going down the loo is Australian or American - no beer involved.

:creep:

...doesn't Euro beer come in cans?
Fragony
11-04-2006, 16:32
...doesn't beer come in cans?

fixed it for ya
MSB
11-04-2006, 16:34
What a terrible waste of time and money! It would be much more efficient to sell it on to a legal seller of alcoholic products!
Redleg
11-04-2006, 16:47
They should take a lesson from the United States and prohibition.

You arrest the seller of the illegal booze, you place a tax stamp on the achocal, and you go about and resell the booze to a retail store.

Profit all around for the police.
Gregoshi
11-05-2006, 04:31
As Benny Hill quipped in one of his jokes, they are just cutting out the middle man.
Kanamori
11-05-2006, 06:04
Screw the beer, they're dumping champagne down the toilet! Sacrilegious.:embarassed:



...doesn't Euro beer come in cans?

The best comes in 2L bottles... like strongbow.:fishbowl:
Keba
11-05-2006, 09:47
...doesn't Euro beer come in cans?

Only the not-so-good stuff.
Scurvy
11-05-2006, 12:41
:bobby: :bobby: = ~:cheers: :barrel:

they can't actually be flushig it down the :toilet: --> they're drinking it all! :2thumbsup:
Duke Malcolm
11-05-2006, 12:58
The best comes in 2L bottles... like strongbow.:fishbowl:

Strongbow is god-awful industrial cider, not beer.
Andres
11-05-2006, 13:01
Oh my God.

Champagne!

They are flushing champagne through the toilet...

:scared: :scared: :scared: ~:confused: ~:confused: ~:confused:

:no: :no: :no:
naut
11-05-2006, 13:16
Why the toilet?

Or would it not be better to fill the flush section with booze, more effective. Well anyway, trust the Police to be inefficient.
Byzantine Prince
11-05-2006, 17:31
Why not donate it to the nearset homeless shelter? This is just wasteful.
KrooK
11-05-2006, 17:40
They should have sent it me :(
yesdachi
11-06-2006, 21:43
Alcohol abuse. :sad:
BDC
11-06-2006, 22:01
The customs service got in trouble a couple of years back for 'destroying' several thousand pounds worth of wines (and this was good stuff, only a few bottles), that were later found to be totally legal or something.

Someone had some good parties.
Duke Malcolm
11-06-2006, 22:15
Why not donate it to the nearset homeless shelter? This is just wasteful.

Don't be silly, they can afford their own. Give it to the local under-priveliged schoolchildren who now have no supply of alcohol.
King Henry V
11-06-2006, 22:39
But this is just......barbaric! :cry:
Seamus Fermanagh
11-06-2006, 22:42
:laugh4: or what we'd call "second generation" beer round these parts :laugh4:

I rise in defense of American bee...

Oh bother, most American beer does qualify under this designation.

Still, we have a few micros worth quaffing.


Here you go, a fun fact to add to the general sense of outrage.

In the pub in the "Ireland" section of Busch Gardens The Old Country (Theme/Amusement Park) they serve only Anheuser-Busch products.

How about them apples?!
GoreBag
11-06-2006, 22:43
Only the not-so-good stuff.

I don't mean to seem obtuse, but the vast majority of Euro beers available around here are in 50cl cans.