Where the Water Flows Like Beer

Jersey City, New Jersey, April 4, 2006:

Several men thought they were in heaven when beer instead of water flowed from the taps in their home.

"I turned on the tap to clean some cheese knives and beer came out," Ronatarian Party leader Ron told The New Jersey Spew from the modest house. "We thought we were in heaven."

Added Ronatarian higher-up and housemate Brad, "We just didn't know what to do with ourselves. We grabbed a bunch of buckets and called all of our friends to come over."

No one came to the house.

Ron said he tried the beer but that it tasted a bit odd and was not fizzy.

"...Almost like it was skunked," he said.

It turned out that a worker in a bar one block away had mixed up the tap lines on Sunday evening, wrongly connecting a new keg to an old water pipe leading to the Ronatarian house. The pipe was a remnant of an old bootlegging pipeline erected in the 1920s. The keg pressure was enough to displace the water already in the house plumbing system.

The bar got water in its beer taps. Drinkers of Coors Light didn't notice the switch.

"If it happens again I'm going to order yummy cosmopolitans," Brad said.

Posted by Bittle at April 4, 2006 08:15 AM