Vodka Pipeline discovered in Russia
 

This is being reported at some sites, so I'm assuming that it's not a joke!

Russian Authorities Discover Vodka Pipeline To Latvia

October 4, 2006 2:30 p.m. EST

Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent

Buholovo, Russia (AHN) - Russian customs officials in Buholovo near the Latvian border have discovered a one mile long pipeline that was pumping vodka to the other side of the border.

Police officers patrolling the border said the tunnel had been laid six feet underground by still unidentified syndicates to pump home-made vodka across the border to avoid paying taxes and other government regulations on the liquor.

The vodka was then sold to Latvian consumers, the police said.

The pipeline was discovered when local community workers started digging holes to plant trees in the area.

Local border police officer, Yakov Kabanov, told the Ananova press agency, "We had our suspicions that there was someone running hooch across the border here but we could never figure out how they managed it.

"They probably would have got away with it for decades if those trees hadn't been planted as well."

Officers are conducting an investigation and began questioning residents in Buholovo about the pipeline, which ran between two rented houses that were empty when they were raided.

Wow! That's really interesting

Nastrovia!!

I'm hoping that United Utilities will notice this and consider running a new pipeline into our house. I'll email them with the story.

Genius! This made me smile.

I've tried some of the less salubrious Russian Vodkas. All I can say is that someone, somewhere, has a really bad alcohol problem and no taste.

You don't say?


Dance, Boris, Dance.

Was it Russia where there was a televised political debate that ended in fisticuffs? Those chaps (and chapettes) can drink like no others.

I remember this one in the Duma:



Notice the guys in the front see no evil? I don't think that was vodka related though.

There have been some supremem brawls in Taiwan's government, almost riot like. Its all quite funny.