Surprise Of The Week (2)
Kerala is a beautiful place to visit but one thing the intrepid visitor should know is that alcoholic drinks are difficult to find outside of 4 and 5-star hotels.
Imagine the surprise, then, of the residents of a block of flats in the Thrissur district of Chalakudy one morning on finding that when they turned on their taps, out flowed a smelly liquid, reeking of beer, brandy, and rum.
It emerged that a local bar had been raided and their hooch confiscated. Officials buried some 6,000 litres of the confiscated alcohol in a pit. Unfortunately, the alcohol had seeped through the soil into a well, the one that supplied the residents with their drinking water. The smell, fortunately, had put them off using the tainted water.
This Keralan version of Adam’s Ale did mean, though, that water supplies were suspended for a while.
