U.K. distillery accidentally flushes whiskey into sewer

[KansDem]

Source: CBS News

LONDON A massive spill at a Chivas plant has sent the smell of spirits flowing through a Scottish sewer and sorrow coursing through the hearts of Scotch whisky fans.

Chivas Brothers Ltd. spokeswoman Jennifer Stevenson says the group is investigating what she described as an "accidental loss" of spirit at the company's bottling plant in Dumbarton, Scotland on Feb. 26.

She declined to estimate how much of the bulk whisky had been lost, saying only that it was less than the 4,755 gallons mentioned in media reports.

BBC News reported that workers who were cleaning equipment during the night shift on Tuesday accidentally flushed away thousands of liters of whisky instead of waste water.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57572013/u.k-distillery-accidentally-flushes-whisky-into-sewer/

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No! No! Say it ain't so!

Worst disaster since someone dropped the Crown Royal bottle...

[SunSeeker]

1. LOL. I guess there will be some drunk alligators in the sewer. nt

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. I was thinking drunk C.H.U.D.

[KansDem]

5. Or...

[SunSeeker]

7. Or...

[Uncle Joe]

15. Or

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Animal House

[SunSeeker]

6. LOL nt

[Archae]

3. Even bigger tragedy...

Right across the street from me!

[KansDem]

8. Oh, no! A "Winelanche!"

Better to sell boxed wine?

[jambo101]

9. I know how easy that can happen.

After working 30 years in a dairy processing plant surrounded by dozens of tanks hundreds of valves and pumps and a myriad of pipes all controlled by buttons on a command board its not hard to imagine a rookie night cleaner pushing the wrong button.

[Nika]

10. Too bad a toxic substance like alcohol was released in this fashion.

It is more of a waste to poison oneself by drinking this though. I would prefer there to be no demand for this toxic product in the first place.

[frylock]

11. well aren't you special

[ForgoTheConsequence]

12. Wow.

I'm sure you're the life of the party.

[Nika]

13. I'm usually the designated driver.

And I protect my health in real time by not being so forthcoming usually in my disgust of alcohol.

I grew up in a single parent family as the oldest of six fending offf an alcoholic mother, and I have the post tramatic stress disorder (PTSD) to show for it.

Sorry to raise your hackles, I suppose my honesty had no place here on this thread. I guess that is why I am usually not so forthcoming of this opinion in real time.

[ret5hd]

18. Oh, so you are an enabler!

And, yeah, it's probably best if you don't tell your friends you secretly despise them.

[Nika]

20. An enabler?

I do't see where you get that. In any event, I do not dispise anyone I know who is a social drinker or alcoholic. But it's true I don't like their drugs of choice.

[SunSeeker]

27. Although I drink alcohol, I prefer to be around stoners; they're way more pleasant than drunks.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

29. You're driving your friends around so they can drink this poison....that's enabling.

Of course, I'm not a prude who joins a website only to chastise people for drinking; I'm only highlighting what you've said.

[Nika]

30. I worked as a bicycle mechanic many years and I know many cases of death, injury, or close calls

by very vulnerable people riding bicycles. I am enabling bicyclists to be safe from what few drinkers I can get to use me to drive them when going to the same club or parties.

There are more ways to look at this then your level of enabler.

I want pedestrians, other non-drinking drivers and bicyclists to be safer. The drinkers will drink regardless of what I do or say. I want fewer of these people endangering themselves and others.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. Or maybe just someone...

who wants to spend time with friends an ensure they get home safely.

[ret5hd]

36. Friends that are secretly despised.

[Javaman]

14. In other news: scores of fishermen found drunk on pickled fish. nt

[liberal N proud]

16. Where was John Jameson

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. 'WHISKY', dammit - there is no 'e' in the Scottish product (nt)

[Beacool]

19. Nooooooo, not the Chivas!!!!

"Oh, the humanity!"

On the other hand, there have been reports of sightings of hundreds of rats acting erratically through the city of Dumbarton.

[rppper]

21. At least it wasn't the Glenlivet distillery...

That would have been a travesty....

[awoke_in_2003]

23. No doubt...

Chivas ain't much of a loss.

[Botany]

24. Chivas .... no big loss

Now if this had gone done the drain then ......

[rppper]

25. Or glenfiddich....

Nt

[SunSeeker]

28. Or Tullamore Dew....nt

[rppper]

31. Yes indeed !

Cheers!

[longship]

26. Some call Chivas Regal Scotch Whisky.

It's retched and overpriced swill.

No loss to the world here.

[truthisfreedom]

33. But think of all the car parts that could have been cleaned!

There are old carburetors everywhere aching to be devarnished.

[jmowreader]

37. People call Chivas Regal Scotch whisky because it is Scotch whisky

It's whisky. And it's made in Scotland.

It's not very good Scotch whisky, but it is what it is.

[niyad]

32. as others have said, glad it wasn't any of the good stuff.

[shanti]

34. About your photo...

It's funny, because my father was toting a bottle of Crown Royal, in its purple bag, through the airport many years ago, when he dropped it. You really would have seen a grown man cry, lol!

[daleo]

35. That's a bit premature.