Hungary workers get shock at bottom of rum barrel

May 4, 9:49 AM (ET)

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.

According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers in Szeged in the south of Hungary tried to move the barrel after they had drained it, only to find it was surprisingly heavy and were shocked when the body of a naked man fell out.

The website said that the body of the man had been shipped back from Jamaica 20 years ago by his wife in the barrel of rum in order to avoid the cost and paperwork of an official return.

According to the website, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a "special taste" so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home.

The wife has since died and the man was buried in a proper grave.

cool. I was in Szeged. got pretty drunk too.

I would have instantly blown chunks.

I'd really need a stiff drink.

hhmmmm... Cabin fever comes to my mind..

I guess you could say the guy was pickled..

If it would have been rolling down the hill and he fell out, would he have been RUM Over.

I could go on all day, but then you all would slap me till my nose was rumming with blood.

that shit is gross...
really really fucking gross.

ick. ick ick.

Further investigation led to the findings that the man has been well known for never being found in Hide & Seek

voldta that is absolutely terrible HAHAHA

hmm necrobooze sounds tasty.

Yes it does

wow move over picckkled punks ,,,,guess he was rum dumb ,,no more Cap morgans for me,,,,,wait i dont drink ,,,,humm had something to do with fallin in a barrel once ,,now i remember

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wow move over picckkled punks ,,,,guess he was rum dumb ,,no more Cap morgans for me,,,,,wait i dont drink ,,,,humm had something to do with fallin in a barrel once ,,now i remember

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bad high school days eh?

am I the only one who thinks the fact that they drank 300 liters of rum is more amazing then a corpse in a barrel?

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Originally Posted by Morning Glory

am I the only one who thinks the fact that they drank 300 liters of rum is more amazing then a corpse in a barrel?

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Well, it during the course of building a house. But, yeah, that is a lot of rum.

But I do have to agree with keiko and mmmcherry.

I saw this post on another forum a few days ago. My response remains the same: that is one cheap ass wife.

come to think ,,,,my god thats like 20,000 shots ,
humm special taste too ,,,,ya chunks be blowin every were i think?

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am I the only one who thinks the fact that they drank 300 liters of rum is more amazing then a corpse in a barrel?

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nah, 300 litres of CUM, now that would be wicked!

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Originally Posted by Mirren

I'd really need a stiff drink.

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oh man thats bad :P

wow, the online magazine looks really interesting....wish i could read russian or whatever language that is

Sorry I have to correct you but we do not speak hungarian in hungary XDD We speak Hungarian :P :) In fact it is quite funny that I haven't heard about this yet although I1m Hunagrian :)

Sorry I already wrote bullshit: we do not speak RUSSIAN in Hungary :)

hey its all good :)

Am I the only one that thinks the wife should be scorned fr not putting her husband's body to proper rest?

lol shes dead allreddy lol ,,,dig her up and pickle her in rum ,imo lol


maybe less filling ,,but would she taste great?????

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am I the only one who thinks the fact that they drank 300 liters of rum is more amazing then a corpse in a barrel?

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While at work, this just hit me. How many liters of rum would the human body displace? So, they probably didn't get to drink 300 liters of rum.

Supposedly, this is the barrel, from the website. No photos of the corpse.

http://www.zsaru.hu/large/zsarukep/0616/hordo.jpg

maybe he was a glory hole operator..?

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While at work, this just hit me. How many liters of rum would the human body displace?

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ok, here's my stab at it. I rounded down slightly for the conversion rates just to make them whole numbers that can be equally interchanged, so in other words, it's not exactly acurate, but it's pretty close. I also have not used any mathematics beyond grade school algebra in like 3 years, so I don't even know if I did this right, but this is the best I can do.


Let's say the body weighs 100 lbs. the guy has been dead for 20 years, and will have lost a considerable amount of weight, so that seems fair.

Let's assume the barrel is full of water and it is at full 300 liter capacity. ( I know that it is full of rum, but I don't know the density of rum, so i'm just going to use the scale of H20 to figure this out.)

First the conversion: 100 lbs equals about 40 kilograms (kg's) of weight. 300 liters equals about 30 cubic decameters (dm3) of space. Also 1L = 1 kg.

Density of Body:
D= 40 kg's (mass) divided by 30 dm3 (volume).
So the Density of the body is 1.3 kg's/dm3

Density of Water:
D= 300 kg's (m) divided by 30 dm3 (v).
So the Density of the water is 10kg's/dm3

If the body has a Density of 1.3..., and it is added to a water Density of 10..., then the difference( aka. the amount of water displaced from the barrel) would be 9.7...

Let's assume that ammount was then added to another barrel of the same capacity as the first one (but obviously empty), so that we can deteremine the exact weight of the displaced water.

It should look like this:
M= 9.7 kg's/dm3 (D) divided by 30 dm3 (V).
So the Mass (weight) of the displaced water is 0.3kg's.

Which converts as follows:
0.3kg's= 300g's= 0.8 L

So that's the solution, based on my calculations. Roughly 0.8 liters of water would be displaced from the barrel.

a few problems with that. First off if i remmeber correctly achohol has a signifigantly different density that water (i belive it is lower) also regardless of weither or not the guy has been dead for 20 years hes been completely preserved and sealed up in that time so he would probably remian near the same weight (actually hed probably end up weighing more because his body would soak up the rum to a degree which would mean less rum in the barrell.

it doesn't say that the body has been preserved. I'm really not sure of the absorbent abilty of a corpse...these are all factors that can be taken into account, but from my understanding, I don't think they are going to cause an overall signifigant change in displacement. it would seem to me that it would be a degreee no more then a liter or two at most. even at the highest possible ammount that I can think of which wouldn't even be remotely plausable, that still leaves 200 + liters that they consumed.

the whole point of putting a body in a barrel of rum is to preserve it, this was actually a popular method of preserving sailors that died at sea and people still drank the liquor that the body was placed in. But all in all you are correct that it wouldnt make that much of a difference, also you arent factoring the density of the human body as a matter in fact im sure that a human body would displace more than .8 liters, thats pretty simple to find out just look at a 2 liter bottle of soda, a human body is considerably larger than that/

haha. I told you im not that good at math.. anyway, where have you been man? this seems like the only thread I've seen you post on in forever?

oh ive just been really busy lately, i do at least read the forum a few times a week but i havent felt compelled to post much.

Oh and BTW it wasnt your math that was screwed up it was that you tried to figure the displacement with the mans weight instead of his body mass, which in humans is near impoosible to determine solely by weight because humans are made up of several materials, all of which have diferent densities.

yaknow, the human body disposes of ALL bodily waste after it's dead.........
wonder if that was the special taste they were talking about.

That is still pretty fucking disgusting. I'd have thrown up left, right and centre. No way I could keep anything in my stomach after that! Oh... and drinking that much first would probably make me a little sickly as well... especially considering I don't like rum...

humm they Decanted a few bottles to take home it says ,,,watch out on E-bay for special 20 yrs old rum ,,with a special flavor to it ,,lol,,

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humm they Decanted a few bottles to take home it says ,,,watch out on E-bay for special 20 yrs old rum ,,with a special flavor to it ,,lol,,

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Haha, I guess I'm safe then... I'm not an eBay addict and I don't drink rum. lol. :D

The last bottle just sold. I was 15 minutes to late

damn. lol and I had my blendder all ready for decayin' daquirris! need to get bc a better connection speed.