Waste Of Booze

Meyersdale, Pennsylvania: June 3, 2003 State environmental officials are considering levying fines and other penalties against whoever dumped more than 145,000 cases of stagnant rum at a western Pennsylvania farm. Thousands of cases of discontinued Captain Morgan Gold was found piled on a farm in Elk Lick Township, about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh near the Maryland border. "This was a significant mess," Stan Whitsel, a state Department of Environmental Protection supervisor, told The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown in Sunday's editions. "It was a bad situation just waiting to get worse." When he found out about the attrocities and hate crimes borne against the tasty libations, Ronatarian Ron flew via helicopter to the disaster area. "I came as soon as I heard," he said while wiping away tears. "How any human could do this to liquor is beyond me. These people must be animals!" State environmental officials discovered the 2,000 tons of abandoned booze and packing material in late May. Whitsel declined to say how they found out about the dumped rum. Environmental officials began routinely inspecting the farm after thousands of railroad ties and heat transfer textbooks were found dumped there last summer. According to Whitsel, the liquor was discontinued in August by London-based Diageo, which hired Houston-based shipping company Satellite Logistics to dispose of some of the 4 million cases of the rum left over. It's a mystery to what happened after that. After discovering the illegal dumping, state environmental officials said Satellite Logistics quickly cleaned up the mess. The alcohol was taken to landfills within a week, Whitsel said. "I was told it could not be saved," said an obviously shaken Ron. "We came too late. There is nothing left."

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