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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Boozing kills 10 in Iran

2007-04-09

Ten people have died after drinking homemade hooch in a holy city in Iran, where the consumption of all alcohol is banned, the Kayhan newspaper reported on Sunday. On April 2, a large quantity of bootlegged alcohol was distributed in Qom, Irans clerical capital and the home of many religious seminaries, south of Tehran, it said. A number of the drinkers were hospitalised and according to the inhabitants of Qom, 10 people have died, the ultra-conservative daily added.

It said that local officials had yet to confirm the death toll. It is not the first time that toxic moonshine has claimed lives in Iran, an Islamic country where the production and consumption of alcohol is generally strictly prohibited.

Posted by:Fred

#5 "so when you're out of beer and wine,
and anti-freeze and ink...
...and aftershave and turpentine,
'near-beer's the thing to drink!
Oh, Non-Barleycorn -- Non-Barleycorn..."

i dunno, does Rantburg have drinking threads like LGF?

Posted by: Querent 2007-04-09 13:24

#4 hey I can make a homebrew batch for these guys ;) heh

I wonder if anything happens to these "branded" folks identified to be drinking the banned substance by their illness

Posted by: Jan from work 2007-04-09 09:28

#3 Send those people emergency shipments of Boone's Farm Apple Wine and 40oz malt liquors. There's not a minute to lose!

Posted by: Mike 2007-04-09 09:02

#2 I am the man, the very fat man,
That waters the workers' beer
I am the man, the very fat man,
That waters the workers' beer
And what do I care if it makes them ill,
If it makes them terribly queer
I've a car, a yacht, and an aeroplane,
And I waters the workers' beer

Now when I waters the workers' beer,
I puts in strychnine
Some methylated spirits,
And a can of kerosine
Ah, but such a brew so terribly strong,
It would make them terribly queer
So I reaches me hand for the watering-can
And I waters the workers' beer

Now a drop of good beer is good for a man
When he's tired, thirsty and hot
And I sometimes have a drop myself,
From a very special pot
For a strong and healthy working class
Is the thing that I most fear
So I reaches my hand for the watering-can
And I waters the workers' beer

Now ladies fair, beyond compare,
Be you maiden or wife
Spare a thought for such a man
Who leads such a lonely life
For the water rates are frightfully high,
And the meths is terribly dear
And there ain't the profit there used to be
In watering the workers' beer

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-04-09 08:35

#1 Either methanol or propylene glycol, I guess. It depends upon whether the brewer was incompetant, or reckless.

Posted by: Eric Jablow 2007-04-09 01:20

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