Don't Let Nobby Buy You a Pint

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LIMA (Reuters) - At least 13 revellers in Peru's Amazon jungle, whose relatives thought they were just suffering bad hangovers, have died after drinking cocktails suspected of being laced with industrial alcohol, health officials said.

Another 14 party-goers were taken to hospital after drinking local alcoholic specialities, including a popular egg and milk cocktail known as "nun's milk", on Friday.

"Family members believed on Saturday they (the victims) were suffering from a terrible hangover. But in reality they were dying," said Willy Lora, regional health director at Pucallpa, about 480 miles (780 km) northeast of Lima.

Health authorities banned sales of alcoholic drinks in Pucallpa until the cause of the poisoning was confirmed.

In October last year 24 schoolchildren died in a remote Peruvian village after eating a breakfast which contained insecticide.

Peruvians often drink home-made liquor and health controls are sparse in remote Andean valleys and jungle communities in one of the poorest countries in South America.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

Answers

rob, hello- how are you?

my girl can mix a very fine margarita, South Americans certainly like to take their time over a drink...

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000


Ollie, matey :-)

I've been mostly feeling (in this order): good, superb, brill, fantastic and suddenly crap again.

Meaning: arranging wedding, doing wedding, got pissed, went to Australia for hols and back to London again.

It's a stinky, dirty shed of a town isn't it? And the locals don't help much either...

I need to see the lads play soon

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000


>>And the locals don't help much either... <<
I take it you mean ITK?

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

Bobby I've been back a week today and I'm ready to take my life....it's such a dump....

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

Scratchy

Ok, to clarify. The cockneys bother me; rude, ignorant and charge exhorbitant amounts for crap food and beer.

Gav!!!!!!!!!!

Pleased to hear you're in town, even if it is Lahndahn. Must have a pint with you soon :-D

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000



hole

no exotic birds gavston?

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000


No mate....I'm stuck on Russia....can't find the dice to get to the next square although I was offered a move to the Czech republic at the weekend....turned it down (for now!) ;))

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

czech hosteleries...

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

No Czech mate then Gav, eh?

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

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