Another Argument Against Prohibition

It has never come up on Mod-Blog before (I think) but I am a teetotaller. Never had a drink and the only alcohol that has entered my body has been in the form of Nyquil. In some ways, I'd be just as happy in a world without beer. But every once in a while a story comes along that forces one to rethink one's positions.

A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it. Rescue teams found Richard Kral drunk and staggering along a mountain path four days after his Audi car was buried in the Slovak Tatra mountains. He told them that after the avalanche, he had opened his car window and tried to dig his way out. But as he dug with his hands, he realised the snow would fill his car before he managed to break through. He had 60 half-litre bottles of beer in his car as he was going on holiday, and after cracking one open to think about the problem he realised he could urinate on the snow to melt it, local media reported.

He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."

Admit it. If this appeared in a movie, you'd all hate it because it was too unbelieveable. Sigh. Reality can be very annoying to a fiction writer on occasion. But I still think I'll stick to bottled water.