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[samus4ever]

Man peed way out of avalanche

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."

Parts of Europe have this week been hit by the heaviest snowfalls since 1941, with some places registering more than ten feet of snow in 24 hours.

 

[Drozmight]

did you just make this up?

 

[bishoptl]

Link. Now.

 

[mr.beers]

smart man

 

[MaverickX9]

Hmm.

Exactly how I shovel my driveway on the weekends.

 

[samus4ever]

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1261997.html?menu

 

[AntoneM]

I envy his urination skills.

 

[Iceman]

How can one feel one's liver hurt?

 

[MrPing1000]

ahh ananova and its 98348348 stories that couldn't possibly be true

 

[miyuru]

:lol goddamn if there wasn't an avalanche, that would've been a hell of a party!

 

[Funky Papa]

bish is going to love this.

http://www.hcwerk.cz/index.php?act=article&aid=99

Going by his name that dude is Trinec's captain, a hockey team from the Czech Republic. Hockey = men's sport.

 

[Triumph]

How can one feel one's liver hurt?

Oh, the stories I could tell!

 

[Funky Papa]

BTW that 60 bottles figure may be right, when I was in the Czech Republic one of the most shocking things was how much beer they drink. It's something brutal, they replace water and sodas with beer on every single meal and it is not unusual for them to drink like 2 litres per day (without getting drunk!)

http://www.czecot.cz/?id_tema=17

For several years now Czechs have held the world record in the amount of beer consumed per head of the population. They drink on average 160 litres a year, that is thirty litres more than the second biggest beer-drinkers, the Germans. The Czechs gained this title after the division of Czechoslovakia.

The first school of brewing in the world was founded in this country at the end of the 18th century. Since 1816 there has been a university-level college of brewing, and since 1868 also a secondary vocational school specialising in brewing.

 

[Brannon]

Well gee, I would've eaten the snow to use it as piss. That way you cut your exit time in half as well as consume half the liquid. See I'm smrt!

But then since I'm not a beer drinker and that guy is, I'd miss the ultra cool excuse to drink THAT MUCH BEER and say it was to save my life. See I'm dumb!

World balance achieved.